The invention discloses a chemical regeneration method of waste
polyester, which comprises the following steps: adding waste
polyester into
ethylene glycol, carrying out a
depolymerization reaction, carrying out filtering
impurity removal, decoloration, cooling
crystallization and separation on the obtained
depolymerization reaction liquid to obtain a
solid product which is a mixture of BHET and BHET
dimer, and directly carrying out a condensation
polymerization reaction to prepare regenerated
polyester. According to the method disclosed by the invention, the
solid impurities filtered and removed when the BHET is purified by adding water are found to be BHET dimers for the first time, and the mixture of the BHET and the BHET dimers is directly used as a
raw material to prepare the RPET through
polymerization without removing the
solid impurities, so that the process is simplified, and the cost is saved. The post-treatment steps are simple, a large amount of water does not need to be added to purify BHET, and the
solvent ethylene glycol can be recycled through simple treatment. The steps from waste polyester
depolymerization to
polymerization for preparation of rPET are few, the process is short, the
energy consumption is low, the yield is high, and the method has important significance for high-efficiency
recovery of PET and green economic technology popularization.