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Chemical Engineering Journal 166 (2011) 523–528 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Chemical Engineering Journal journal homepage: /locate/cej Effect of temperature management on the hydrolytic degradation of PET in a calcium oxide ?lled tube reactor Guido Grause, Tomohiko Handa, Tomohito Kameda, Tadaaki Mizoguchi, Toshiaki Yoshioka ? Graduate School for Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Aramaki Aza Aoba 6-6-07, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan Article info abstract Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) was hydrolysed and decarboxylised, using a calcium oxide ?lled col-umn under several thermal conditions, in order to obtain high yields of high purity benzene. The reactions of the hydrolysis of PET and the subsequent decarboxylation of the resulting terephthalic acid were successfully separated by a sophisticated temperature management. While hydrolysis proceeded well attemperatures below 500 ? C, the decarboxylation proceeded with a suf?cient velocity at about 500 ? C.The yield and purity was strongly determined by the extent to which hydrolysis and decarboxylation were separated. At temperatures higher than the optimal temperature for hydrolysis, the resultant side reactions led to both a lower yield and purity of the product, while few by-products were observed when the hydrolysis was completed before the decarboxylation started. The best results were achieved at a heating rate of 2 K min?1 between 300 ? C and 500 ? C, with a benzene yield of 74% and a purity of 97 wt.%. 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Article history: Received 26 July 2010 Received in revised form 2 November 2010 Accepted 2 November 2010 Keywords: PET Benzene Hydrolysis Decarboxylation Purity Heating rate 1. Introduction Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is the standard plastic with the highest growth in consumption. The demand in 2007 was 15 million tons worldwide. Until 2015, an annual growth-rate of about 7.5% is expected