Recovery of (Z)-13-Docosenamide from Industrial Wastewater and Its Application in the Production of Virgin Polypropylene to Improve the Coefficient of Friction in Film Type Applications

Additives play an important role in the production of plastic materials through their application, which mechanical, thermal, and physical properties polymers are improved, making them last longer be more resistant. During synthesis polypropylene resins, remains additives that not absorbed by resin removed purification stage end up wastewater. In this article, recovery (Z)-13-docosenamide from wastewater process, its purification, application process was carried out. For extraction additive, solid phase (SPE) used, to guarantee purity (Z)-13-docosenamide, techniques such as high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS), thermogravimetric (TG) coupled with a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were used. The recovered erucamide added PP between 0.05 0.3% w/w. effects virgin additive also evaluated determine effectiveness improving material measuring coefficient friction (CoF) well mechanical wettability atomic force microscopy (AFM) contact angle, respectively. It discovered using these techniques, it is possible recover approximately 95% present water while keeping material’s within desired limits.