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http://dx.doi.org/10.9713/kcer.2011.49.6.816

Pervaporation of Butanol from their Aqueous Solution using a PDMS-Zeolite Composite Membrane  

Kong, Chang-In (Dept. of Chem. Eng., College of Eng., Chungnam National University)
Cho, Moon-Hee (Dept. of Chem. Eng., College of Eng., Chungnam National University)
Lee, Yong-Taek (Dept. of Chem. Eng., College of Eng., Chungnam National University)
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Korean Chemical Engineering Research / v.49, no.6, 2011 , pp. 816-822 More about this Journal
Abstract
Pervaporation is known to be a low energy consumption process since it needs only an electric power to maintain the permeate side in vacuum. Also, the pervaporation is an environmentally clean technology because it does not use the third material such as an entrainer for either an azeotropic distillation or an extractive distillation. In this study, Silicalite-1 particles are hydrothermally synthesized and polydimethylsiloxane(PDMS)-zeolite composite membranes are prepared with a mixture of synthesized Silicalite-1 particles and PDMS-polymer. They are used to separate n-butanol from its aqueous solution. Pervaporation characteristics such as a permeation flux and a separation factor are investigated as a function of the feed concentration and the weight % of Silicalite-1 particles in the membrane. A 1,000 $cm^3$ aqueous solution containing butanol of low mole fraction such as order of 0.001 was used as a feed to the membrane cell while the pressure of the permeation side was kept about 0.2~0.3 torr. When the butanol concentration in the feed solution was 0.015 mole fraction, the flux of n-butanol significantly increased from 14.5 g/ $m^2$/hr to 186.3 g/$m^2$/hr as the Silicalite-1 content increased from 0 wt% to 10 wt%, indicating that the Silicalite-1 molecular sieve improved the membrane permselectivity from 4.8 to 11.8 due to its unique crystalline microporous structure and its strong hydrophobicity. Consequently, the concentration of n-butanol in the permeate substantially increased from 0.07 to 0.15 mole fraction. This composite membrane could be potentially appliable for separation of n-butanol from insitu fermentation broth where n-butanol is produced at a fairly low concentration of 0.015 mole fraction.
Keywords
n-Butanol; Pervaporation; PDMS-Zeolite; Zeolite Membrane;
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