Decomposition of model compounds of phenol resin waste with supercritical water

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/cl.1997.47

Model compounds of phenol resin waste such as prepolymers and substituted diphenylmethanes were decomposed into their monomers by the reaction at from 300 to 430 °C with water in 10 ml tubing bomb reactor. The decomposition reactions were accelerated by the addition of alkali salts such as Na₂CO₃.