The purpose of the present invention is to provide a high-quality polyacetal copolymer economically advantageously by a simple process. The present invention comprises: a raw material supply step (S1) of supplying a raw material comprising trioxane, a comonomer capable of copolymerizing with trioxane and a non-volatile protonic acid to a reactor of a continuous stirring/mixing machine type; a polymerization reaction step (S2) of carrying out a polymerization reaction of the raw material to produce a reaction mixture; an unreacted monomer re-supply step (S3) of vaporizing an unreacted monomer to separate the unreacted monomer from the reaction mixture and supplying the unreacted monomer to the raw material supply step; a polyacetal copolymer collection step (S4) of collecting a polyacetal copolymer from the reaction mixture into a collection unit which is arranged downstream from a discharge port and is so adjusted as to have a gauge pressure of 0.2 kPa or more; and a deactivation step (S5) of adding a basic compound to the polyacetal copolymer that has been collected in the polyacetal copolymer collection step and then subjecting the resultant mixture to a meltkneading treatment to deactivate the non-volatile protonic acid.
本发明的目的是通过简单的工艺提供一种经济实惠的高质量聚
缩醛共聚物。本发明包括原料供应步骤(S1),向连续搅拌/混合机类型的反应器供应由三氧杂
环己烷、可与三氧杂
环己烷共聚的共聚单体和非挥发性质子酸组成的原料; 聚合反应步骤(S2),对原料进行聚合反应,生成反应混合物;未反应单体再供应步骤 (S3),蒸发未反应单体,将未反应单体从反应混合物中分离出来,并将未反应单体供应给原料供应步骤; 聚
缩醛共聚物收集步骤 (S4),将反应混合物中的聚
缩醛共聚物收集到一个收集装置中,该收集装置布置在出料口的下游,其表压为 0.2 kPa或以上;以及失活步骤(S5),向在聚
缩醛共聚物收集步骤中收集的聚
缩醛共聚物中加入碱性化合物,然后将所得混合物进行熔融捏合处理,使不挥发性质子酸失活。