Solid-State Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Mixed PET/Cotton Textiles

被引:39
作者
Kaabel, Sandra [1 ,2 ]
Arciszewski, Jane [1 ]
Borchers, Tristan H. [1 ]
Therien, J. P. Daniel [1 ]
Friscic, Tomislav [1 ]
Auclair, Karine [1 ]
机构
[1] McGill Univ, Dept Chem, 801 St West, Montreal, PQ H3A 0B8, Canada
[2] Aalto Univ, Dept Bioprod & Biosyst, Espoo 02150, Finland
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 欧盟地平线“2020”;
关键词
biocatalysis; cotton; mechanoenzymatic hydrolysis; PET; textiles; POLYESTER; WASTE; DEPOLYMERIZATION; MECHANISM; RECOVERY; WATER;
D O I
10.1002/cssc.202201613
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
Waste polyester textiles are not recycled due to separation challenges and partial structural degradation during use and recycling. Chemical recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) textiles through depolymerization can provide a feedstock of recycled monomers to make "as-new" polymers. While enzymatic PET recycling is a more selective and more sustainable approach, methods in development, however, have thus far been limited to clean, high-quality PET feedstocks, and require an energy-intensive melt-amorphization step ahead of enzymatic treatment. Here, high-crystallinity PET in mixed PET/cotton textiles could be directly and selectively depolymerized to terephthalic acid (TPA) by using a commercial cutinase from Humicola insolens under moist-solid reaction conditions, affording up to 30 +/- 2 % yield of TPA. The process was readily combined with cotton depolymerization through simultaneous or sequential application of the cellulase enzymes CTec2 (R), providing up to 83 +/- 4 % yield of glucose without any negative influence on the TPA yield.
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