As part of the effort to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, The Dow Chemical Company has been developing a seed oil based polyol to be used as a replacement to conventional petrochemical based polyether polyols in the production of flexible polyurethane foam. The general process for making natural oil polyols consists of four steps. In the first step, a vegetable oil (triglyceride) is transesterified with methanol, liberating glycerin, and forming fatty acid methyl esters or FAMEs. In the second step the FAMEs are hydroformylated giving a complex mixture of FAMEs that contain 0-3 formyl groups per chain. In the third step, the aldehydes and the remaining unsaturates are hydrogenated to yield a mixture of FAMEs that contain 0-3 hydroxymethyl groups. Finally, the poly(hydroxymethyl)fatty esters are transesterified onto a suitable initiator to produce the natural oil polyol.
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机译:作为减少对化石燃料依赖的努力的一部分,Dow Chemical Company一直在开发种子油基多元醇作为柔性聚氨酯泡沫的常规石化的聚醚多元醇作为替代品。制作天然油多元醇的一般方法包括四个步骤。在第一步中,植物油(甘油三酯)用甲醇,释放甘油和形成脂肪酸甲酯或食物。在第二步中,FAME是加氢甲酰化,其具有每种链含有0-3个甲酰基的着名的复杂混合物。在第三步中,醛和剩余的不饱和氢化以产生含有0-3羟甲基的因子的混合物。最后,将聚(羟甲基)脂肪酯酯交换到合适的引发剂上以产生天然油多元醇。
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