Green polymer material is refined from castor oil

China's ramie resources are extremely rich. Its output ranks second only to India in the world, and its development potential is very great. However, the production, deep processing and application of ricinus oil in our country are still lagging behind, thus accelerating the development and utilization of castor oil. Enhancing China’s overall national strength plays a decisive role.

As people's environmental awareness continues to increase, the desire to develop renewable green polymer materials becomes more urgent, and the presence of a large amount of vegetable oil in nature is the best raw material for the production of green polymers. Nature has created plants that have the ability to synthesize extremely complex fatty acid glycerides (abbreviations: oils and fats) using biotechnology such as photosynthesis. The cost of obtaining these oils is much lower than the cost of producing petroleum oil. This will be The greatest waste of nature. Castor oil is one of the most commercially valuable oils.

Since the structure of castor oil contains reactive groups such as olefinic bonds, ester groups, and hydroxyl groups, it is possible to prepare polymers by a series of chemical reactions such as esterification, alkali fusion, pyrolysis, alcoholysis, hydrogenation, and epoxidation. The raw materials can then be used to make polymeric materials such as foam insulation, filter materials, elastomeric materials, and surface coatings. The biggest feature of polymer materials made from castor oil based materials is that they can be easily degraded and regenerated by biological or chemical methods without any environmental pollution.