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Separation of methanol-tetrahydrofuran mixtures by heteroazeotropic distillation and pervaporation

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Genduso, Giuseppe [ProcESS, KU Leuven] Amelio, Antonio [ProcESS, KU Leuven] Luis Alconero, Patricia [UCL] Van der Bruggen, Bart [ProcESS, KU Leuven] Vreysen, Steven [Thomas More University College, Geel, Belgium]

The experimental investigation of the separation of tetrahydrofuran-methanol by heteroazeotropic-batch-distillation and methanol-hexane by pervaporation is presented. In particular for this last task, four different specialty commercial membranes were tested (varying feed concentration and temperature). The “pore filling” PolyAn membranes show methanol permeance values higher than 5100 GPU (Typ M2VR ); separation factor of 19; and a selectivity of about 119 (Typ M1VR ). From the results, a coupling phenomenon was observed. An assessment of the temperature effect in the pervaporation process corroborates the hypothesis of the presence of a coupling phenomenon. Finally, a discussion is made on two industrial scale units for the separation of the same mixture: a system of a distillation column integrated with a decanter and stand-alone pervaporation unit. The energetic comparison shows that when using pervaporation a large reduction of the energetic consumption compared to a conventional distillation system (up to 29%) can be obtained.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2014
Language Anglais
Journal information "AIChE Journal" - Vol. 60, no. 7, p. 2584-2595 (2014)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher JohnWiley & Sons, Inc. (Hoboken)
issn 0001-1541
e-issn 1547-5905
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SST/IMMC/IMAP - Materials and process engineering
Keywords Separation techniques ; Methanol pervaporation ; Heteroazeotropic batch distillation ; Membrane separations
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Bibliographic reference Genduso, Giuseppe ; Amelio, Antonio ; Luis Alconero, Patricia ; Van der Bruggen, Bart ; Vreysen, Steven. Separation of methanol-tetrahydrofuran mixtures by heteroazeotropic distillation and pervaporation. In: AIChE Journal, Vol. 60, no. 7, p. 2584-2595 (2014)
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