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Imad M, Castro-Muñoz R. Ongoing Progress on Pervaporation Membranes for Ethanol Separation. MEMBRANES 2023; 13:848. [PMID: 37888020 PMCID: PMC10608438 DOI: 10.3390/membranes13100848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2023] [Revised: 10/04/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023]
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Ethanol, a versatile chemical extensively employed in several fields, including fuel production, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, and chemical manufacturing, continues to witness expanding applications. Consequently, there is an ongoing need for cost-effective and environmentally friendly purification technologies for this organic compound in both diluted (ethanol-water-) and concentrated solutions (water-ethanol-). Pervaporation (PV), as a membrane technology, has emerged as a promising solution offering significant reductions in energy and resource consumption during the production of high-purity components. This review aims to provide a panorama of the recent advancements in materials adapted into PV membranes, encompassing polymeric membranes (and possible blending), inorganic membranes, mixed-matrix membranes, and emerging two-dimensional-material membranes. Among these membrane materials, we discuss the ones providing the most relevant performance in separating ethanol from the liquid systems of water-ethanol and ethanol-water, among others. Furthermore, this review identifies the challenges and future opportunities in material design and fabrication techniques, and the establishment of structure-performance relationships. These endeavors aim to propel the development of next-generation pervaporation membranes with an enhanced separation efficiency.
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- Muhammad Imad
- Department of Process and Systems Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke University, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Pak-Austria Fachhochschule, Haripur 22620, Pakistan
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- Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Toluca, Avenida Eduardo Monroy Cárdenas 2000 San Antonio Buenavista, Toluca de Lerdo 50110, Mexico
- Department of Sanitary Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, G. Narutowicza St. 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland
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Shalygin MG, Kozlova AA, Heider J, Sapegin DA, Netrusov AA, Teplyakov VV. Polymeric Membranes for Vapor-Phase Concentrating Volatile Organic Products from Biomass Processing. MEMBRANES AND MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGIES 2023. [DOI: 10.1134/s2517751623010055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/07/2023]
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Alonso-Riaño P, Illera AE, Amândio MS, Xavier AM, Beltrán S, Teresa Sanz M. Valorization of brewer’s spent grain by furfural recovery/removal from subcritical water hydrolysates by pervaporation. Sep Purif Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2022.123008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Aziaba K, Jordan C, Haddadi B, Harasek M. Design of a Gas Permeation and Pervaporation Membrane Model for an Open Source Process Simulation Tool. MEMBRANES 2022; 12:1186. [PMID: 36557093 PMCID: PMC9784710 DOI: 10.3390/membranes12121186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Revised: 11/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Gas permeation and pervaporation are technologies that emerged several decades ago. Even though they have discovered increasing popularity for industrial separation processes, they are not represented equally within process simulation tools except for commercial systems. The availability of such a numerical solution shall be extended due to the design of a membrane model with Visual Basic based on the solution-diffusion model. Although this works approach is presented for a specific process simulator application, the algorithm can generally be transferred to any other programming language and process simulation solver, which allows custom implementations or modeling. Furthermore, the modular design of the model enables its further development by operators through the integration of physical effects. A comparison with experimental data of gas permeation and pervaporation applications as well as other published simulation data delivers either good accordance with the results or negligible deviations of less than 1% from other data.
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Mutto A, Mahawer K, Shukla A, Gupta SK. Understanding butanol recovery and coupling effects in pervaporation of Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol (ABE) solutions: A modelling and experimental study. J Memb Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2022.120711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Rosenthal JJ, Hsieh IM, Malmali MM. ZSM-5/Thermoplastic Polyurethane Mixed Matrix Membranes for Pervaporation of Binary and Ternary Mixtures of n-Butanol, Ethanol, and Water. Ind Eng Chem Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c01794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Justin J. Rosenthal
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, 807 Canton Avenue, Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, 807 Canton Avenue, Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, 807 Canton Avenue, Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States
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Arcanjo Gonçalves BJ, de Souza Figueiredo KC. Developments in downstream butanol separation from ABE fermentation. Chem Eng Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ceat.202200241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Bruno José Arcanjo Gonçalves
- Department of Chemical Engineering Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Av. Antonio Carlos, 6627 Pampulha, Belo Horizonte CEP 31270-901 Brazil
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- Department of Chemical Engineering Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Av. Antonio Carlos, 6627 Pampulha, Belo Horizonte CEP 31270-901 Brazil
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Golubev G, Sokolov S, Rokhmanka T, Makaev S, Borisov I, Khashirova S, Volkov A. High Efficiency Membranes Based on PTMSP and Hyper-Crosslinked Polystyrene for Toxic Volatile Compounds Removal from Wastewater. Polymers (Basel) 2022; 14:polym14142944. [PMID: 35890720 PMCID: PMC9321245 DOI: 10.3390/polym14142944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2022] [Revised: 06/30/2022] [Accepted: 07/16/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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For the first time, membranes based on poly(1-trimethylsilyl-1-propyne) (PTMSP) with 5–50 wt% loading of hyper-crosslinked polystyrene sorbent particles (HCPS) were obtained; the membranes were investigated for the problem of effective removal of volatile organic compounds from aqueous solutions using vacuum pervaporation. The industrial HCPS sorbent Purolite Macronet™ MN200 was chosen due to its high sorption capacity for organic solvents. It has been found that the membranes are asymmetric when HCPS content is higher than 30 wt%; scanning electron microscopy of the cross-sections the membranes demonstrate that they have a clearly defined thin layer, consisting mainly of PTMSP, and a thick porous layer, consisting mainly of HCPS. The transport and separation characteristics of PTMSP membranes with different HCPS loading were studied during the pervaporation separation of binary and multicomponent mixtures of water with benzene, toluene and xylene. It was shown that the addition of HCPS up to 30 wt% not only increases the permeate fluxes by 4–7 times, but at the same time leads to 1.5–2 fold increase in the separation factor. It was possible to obtain separation factors exceeding 1000 for all studied mixtures at high permeate fluxes (0.5–1 kg/m2∙h) in pervaporation separation of binary solutions.
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- Georgy Golubev
- A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis RAS, 29 Leninsky prospekt, 119991 Moscow, Russia; (S.S.); (T.R.); (S.M.); (I.B.); (A.V.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +7-495-647-59-27 (ext. 2-02)
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- A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis RAS, 29 Leninsky prospekt, 119991 Moscow, Russia; (S.S.); (T.R.); (S.M.); (I.B.); (A.V.)
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- A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis RAS, 29 Leninsky prospekt, 119991 Moscow, Russia; (S.S.); (T.R.); (S.M.); (I.B.); (A.V.)
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- A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis RAS, 29 Leninsky prospekt, 119991 Moscow, Russia; (S.S.); (T.R.); (S.M.); (I.B.); (A.V.)
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- A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis RAS, 29 Leninsky prospekt, 119991 Moscow, Russia; (S.S.); (T.R.); (S.M.); (I.B.); (A.V.)
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- Department of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Compounds, Kabardino-Balkar State University named after H.M. Berbekov, 173 Chernyshevsky St., 360004 Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Russia;
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- A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis RAS, 29 Leninsky prospekt, 119991 Moscow, Russia; (S.S.); (T.R.); (S.M.); (I.B.); (A.V.)
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Review of alternative technologies for acetone-butanol-ethanol separation: Principles, state-of-the-art, and development trends. Sep Purif Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2022.121244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Zhan X, Zhao X, Gao Z, Ge R, Lu J, Wang L, Li J. Breakthroughs on tailoring membrane materials for ethanol recovery by pervaporation. Chin J Chem Eng 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cjche.2021.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Serna-Vázquez J, Zamidi Ahmad M, Castro-Muñoz R. Simultaneous production and extraction of bio-chemicals produced from fermentations via pervaporation. Sep Purif Technol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2021.119653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The fabrication, characterization, and pervaporation performance of poly(ether-block-amide) membranes blended with 4-(trifluoromethyl)-N(pyridine-2-yl)benzamide and 4-(dimethylamino)-N(pyridine-2-yl)benzamide fillers. Sep Purif Technol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2021.118707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Ashani PN, Shafiei M, Karimi K. Biobutanol production from municipal solid waste: Technical and economic analysis. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2020; 308:123267. [PMID: 32251861 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.123267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2020] [Revised: 03/26/2020] [Accepted: 03/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Novel processes for the production of acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) from municipal solid waste (MSW) were developed and simulated using Aspen Plus®. In scenario 1, a conventional distillation system was used, while a gas stripping system was coupled with a fermenter in scenario 2. In scenario 3, pervaporation (PV) and gas stripping systems right after the fermentation reactor were applied. Gas stripping increased the total ABE produced while the addition of the PV module decreased the number of distillation columns from 6 to 2 as well as created 6.4% increments in the amount of butanol in comparison with scenario 1. Economical evaluation resulted in having payout periods of 15.9, 4.4, and 2.9 years for scenarios 1 to 3, respectively. These results show that using MSW as an inexpensive sugar-rich feedstock together with gas stripping PV system is a promising solution to overcome the major obstacles in the way of the ABE production.
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- Parisa Nazemi Ashani
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran; Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran; Industrial Biotechnology Group, Research Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran.
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High Selective Composite Polyalkylmethylsiloxane Membranes for Pervaporative Removal of MTBE from Water: Effect of Polymer Side-chain. Polymers (Basel) 2020; 12:polym12061213. [PMID: 32466559 PMCID: PMC7362244 DOI: 10.3390/polym12061213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2020] [Revised: 05/25/2020] [Accepted: 05/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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For the first time, the effect of the side-chain in polyalkylmethylsiloxane towards pervaporative removal of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) from water was studied. The noticeable enhancement of separation factor during the pervaporation of 1 wt.% MTBE solution in water through the dense film (40–50 µm) can be achieved by substitution of a methyl group (separation factor 111) for heptyl (161), octyl (169) or decyl (180) one in polyalkylmethylsiloxane. Composite membrane with the selective layer (~8 µm) made of polydecylmethylsiloxane (M10) on top of microfiltration support (MFFK membrane) demonstrated MTBE/water separation factor of 310, which was 72% greater than for the dense film (180). A high separation factor together with an overall flux of 0.82 kg·m−2·h−1 allowed this M10/MFFK composite membrane to outperform the commercial composite membranes. The analysis of the concentration polarization modulus and the boundary layer thickness revealed that the feed flow velocity should be gradually increased from 5 cm·s−1 for an initial solution (1 wt.% of MTBE in water) to 13 cm·s−1 for a depleted solution (0.2 wt.% of MTBE in water) to overcome the concentration polarization phenomena in case of composite membrane M10/MFFK (Texp = 50 °C).
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New Trends in Biopolymer-Based Membranes for Pervaporation. Molecules 2019; 24:molecules24193584. [PMID: 31590357 PMCID: PMC6803837 DOI: 10.3390/molecules24193584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2019] [Revised: 09/28/2019] [Accepted: 10/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Biopolymers are currently the most convenient alternative for replacing chemically synthetized polymers in membrane preparation. To date, several biopolymers have been proposed for such purpose, including the ones derived from animal (e.g., polybutylene succinate, polylactic acid, polyhydroxyalcanoates), vegetable sources (e.g., starch, cellulose-based polymers, alginate, polyisoprene), bacterial fermentation products (e.g., collagen, chitin, chitosan) and specific production processes (e.g., sericin). Particularly, these biopolymer-based membranes have been implemented into pervaporation (PV) technology, which assists in the selective separation of azeotropic water-organic, organic-water, organic-organic mixtures, and specific separations of chemical reactions. Thereby, the aim of the present review is to present the current state-of-the-art regarding the different concepts on preparing membranes for PV. Particular attention is paid to the most relevant insights in the field, highlighting the followed strategies by authors for such successful approaches. Finally, by reviewing the ongoing development works, the concluding remarks and future trends are addressed.
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The potential of pervaporation for biofuel recovery from fermentation: An energy consumption point of view. Chin J Chem Eng 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cjche.2018.09.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Apel PY, Bobreshova OV, Volkov AV, Volkov VV, Nikonenko VV, Stenina IA, Filippov AN, Yampolskii YP, Yaroslavtsev AB. Prospects of Membrane Science Development. MEMBRANES AND MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGIES 2019. [DOI: 10.1134/s2517751619020021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Mao H, Zhen HG, Ahmad A, Zhang AS, Zhao ZP. In situ fabrication of MOF nanoparticles in PDMS membrane via interfacial synthesis for enhanced ethanol permselective pervaporation. J Memb Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2018.12.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Tang T, Ling T, Xu M, Wang W, Zheng Z, Qiu Z, Fan W, Li L, Wu Y. Selective Recovery of n-Butanol from Aqueous Solutions with Functionalized Poly(epoxide ionic liquid)-Based Polyurethane Membranes by Pervaporation. ACS OMEGA 2018; 3:16175-16183. [PMID: 31458254 PMCID: PMC6644041 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b02219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2018] [Accepted: 11/19/2018] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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In this study, hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene-poly(epoxide ionic liquid)-poly(urethane urea) (HTPB-PEIL-PU) membranes, HTPB-PEIL1-PU and HTPB-PEIL2-PU, were prepared by the reaction of functionalized PEIL, poly(1-methylimidazole-3-methyl-ethyloxy)hexafluorophosphate or poly(1-methylimidazole-3-methyl-ethyloxy)bistrifluoromethanesulfonimidate, respectively, with HTPB using 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) as the chain extender. The HTPB-PEIL-PU and HTPB membranes were investigated for the selective recovery of n-butanol from aqueous solutions by pervaporation. PEIL was confirmed to be successfully embedded in the PU membranes by 1H NMR, Fourier transform infrared, and differential scanning calorimetry measurements. According to our mechanical measurements, the HTPB-PEIL-PU membranes retain the mechanical properties of the original PU membrane. PEIL was shown to enhance the diffusion rate of n-butanol significantly based on swelling behavior tests. The pervaporation flux through the HTPB-PEIL1-PU membrane increased with increasing feed temperature and feed concentration. In contrast, the separation factor of the HTPB-PEIL1-PU membrane increased with increasing feed temperature but decreased with increasing feed concentration. In addition, the HTPB-PEIL2-PU membrane exhibited an optimal separation factor of up to 29.2 at a feed concentration of 3% and a feed temperature of 70 °C, which is superior to that (22.7) through pure HTPB membranes. Furthermore, the HTPB-PEIL1-PU and HTPB-PEIL2-PU membranes show better long-term stability than other supported ionic liquid membranes.
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- Tianyi Tang
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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- College
of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese
Medicine, 138 Xianlin
Avenue, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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Chen H, Cai D, Chen C, Wang J, Qin P, Tan T. Novel distillation process for effective and stable separation of high-concentration acetone-butanol-ethanol mixture from fermentation-pervaporation integration process. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2018; 11:286. [PMID: 30377445 PMCID: PMC6195753 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-018-1284-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2018] [Accepted: 10/09/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND One of the major obstacles of acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation from renewable biomass resources is the energy-intensive separation process. To decrease the energy demand of the ABE downstream separation processes, hybrid in situ separation system with conventional distillation is recognized as an effective method. However, in the distillation processes, the high reflux ratio of the ethanol column and the accumulation of ethanol on top of the water and butanol columns led to poor controllability and high operation cost of the distillations. In this study, vacuum distillation process which is based on a decanter-assisted ethanol-butanol-water recycle loop named E-TCD sequence was developed to improve the conventional separation sequence for ABE separation. The permeate of in situ pervaporation system was used as the feed. RESULTS The distillation processes were simulated and optimized by iterative strategies. ABE mixture with acetone, butanol and ethanol concentrations of 115.8 g/L, 191.4 g/L and 17.8 g/L (the other composition was water) that obtained from fermentation-pervaporation integration process was used as the feed. A plant scaled to 1025 kg/h of ABE mixture was performed, and the product purities were 100 wt% of butanol, 99.7 wt% of acetone and 95 wt% of ethanol, respectively. Results showed that only 5.3 MJ/kg (of butanol) was required for ABE separation, which was only 37.54% of the energy cost in conventional distillation processes. CONCLUSIONS Compared with the drawbacks of ethanol accumulation in butanol-water recycle loop and the extremely high recovery rate of ethanol in conventional distillation processes, simulation results obtained in the current work avoided the accumulation of ethanol based on the novel E-TCD sequence.
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- Huidong Chen
- College of Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029 People’s Republic of China
- Center for Process Simulation & Optimization, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, No. 15 Beisanhuan East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029 People’s Republic of China
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- National Energy R&D Center for Biorefinery, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, No. 15 Beisanhuan East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029 People’s Republic of China
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- National Energy R&D Center for Biorefinery, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, No. 15 Beisanhuan East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029 People’s Republic of China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029 People’s Republic of China
- Center for Process Simulation & Optimization, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, No. 15 Beisanhuan East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029 People’s Republic of China
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- National Energy R&D Center for Biorefinery, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, No. 15 Beisanhuan East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029 People’s Republic of China
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- National Energy R&D Center for Biorefinery, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, No. 15 Beisanhuan East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029 People’s Republic of China
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Influence of feed flow rate, temperature and feed concentration on concentration polarization effects during separation of water-methyl acetate solutions with high permeable hydrophobic pervaporation PDMS membrane. J Memb Sci 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2018.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Azimi H, Ebneyamini A, Tezel FH, Thibault J. Separation of Organic Compounds from ABE Model Solutions via Pervaporation Using Activated Carbon/PDMS Mixed Matrix Membranes. MEMBRANES 2018; 8:E40. [PMID: 29996486 PMCID: PMC6161144 DOI: 10.3390/membranes8030040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2018] [Revised: 07/03/2018] [Accepted: 07/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The pervaporation separation of organic compounds from acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation model solutions was studied using activated carbon (AC) nanoparticle-poly (dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) mixed matrix membranes (MMM). The effects of the operating conditions and nanoparticle loading content on the membrane performance have been investigated. While the separation factor increased continuously, with an increase in the concentration of nanoparticles, the total flux reached a maximum in the MMM with 8 wt % nanoparticle loading in PDMS. Both the separation factor for ABE and the total permeation flux more than doubled for the MMM in comparison to those of neat PDMS membranes prepared in this study.
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- Hoda Azimi
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.
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Performance of commercial composite hydrophobic membranes applied for pervaporative reclamation of acetone, butanol, and ethanol from aqueous solutions: Binary mixtures. Sep Purif Technol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2017.07.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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High-flux POMS organophilic pervaporation for ABE recovery applied in fed-batch and continuous set-ups. J Memb Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2017.06.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Roy S, Singha NR. Polymeric Nanocomposite Membranes for Next Generation Pervaporation Process: Strategies, Challenges and Future Prospects. MEMBRANES 2017; 7:membranes7030053. [PMID: 28885591 PMCID: PMC5618138 DOI: 10.3390/membranes7030053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2017] [Revised: 08/30/2017] [Accepted: 08/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
Pervaporation (PV) has been considered as one of the most active and promising areas in membrane technologies in separating close boiling or azeotropic liquid mixtures, heat sensitive biomaterials, water or organics from its mixtures that are indispensable constituents for various important chemical and bio-separations. In the PV process, the membrane plays the most pivotal role and is of paramount importance in governing the overall efficiency. This article evaluates and collaborates the current research towards the development of next generation nanomaterials (NMs) and embedded polymeric membranes with regard to its synthesis, fabrication and application strategies, challenges and future prospects.
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- Sagar Roy
- Department of Chemistry & Environmental Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
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- Advanced Polymer Laboratory, Department of Polymer Science and Technology, Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology (Post-Graduate), Kolkata-700106, West Bengal, India.
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Novel hybrid process for bio-butanol recovery: Thermopervaporation with porous condenser assisted by phase separation. J Memb Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2016.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Jahnke JP, Benyamin MS, Sumner JJ, Mackie DM. Using Reverse Osmosis Membranes to Couple Direct Ethanol Fuel Cells with Ongoing Fermentations. Ind Eng Chem Res 2016. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.6b02915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Justin P. Jahnke
- U.S. Army Research Laboratory, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, Maryland 20740, United States
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- U.S. Army Research Laboratory, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, Maryland 20740, United States
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- U.S. Army Research Laboratory, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, Maryland 20740, United States
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- U.S. Army Research Laboratory, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, Maryland 20740, United States
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