Ethanol membrane engineering

Tanaka, K., Yoshikawa, R., Ying, C., et al., 20CC. Application of zeolite T membrane to vapor-permeation-aided esterification of lactic acid with ethanol. Chemical Engineering Science 57,1577-1584. 

The same as F-T produced mixed-alcohols, low purity bio-ethanol extracted from fermentation broth must be refined into high purity fuel grade ethanol. The pervapo-ration dehydration pilot plant based on NaA zeolite membrane was set up by Mitsui Engineering Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES) in 1999. Recently, a pilot-scale NaA zeolite membrane based vapor permeation dewatering installation has been setup in our group with a handling capacity of 250 L/D. This installation can continuously produce 225 L 99.7wt.% ethanol per day. Meanwhile the permeate is nearly pure water. 

Kargupta K., Siddhartha D. and Sanyal S.K. Analysis of the performance of a continuous membrane bioreactor with cell recycling during ethanol fermentation. Biochemical Engineering Journal 1 (1) (1998) 31-37. 

Van der Bruggen, B., Geens, J., and Vandecasteele, C. (2002) Fluxes and rejections for nanofiltration with solvent stable polymeric membranes in water, ethanol and n-hexane. Chemical Engineering Science 57, 2511-2518. 

Darvishmanesh, S., Degrfeve, J., and Van der Bruggen, B. (2009) Comparison of pressure driven transport of ethanol/ hexane mixtures through dense and microporous membranes. Chemical Engineering Science 64, 3914—3927. 

Thesis, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. Masaru, M., Reikichi, I., Seiich, M., Shuzo, Y. and Akira, M. 1985. Chitosan membranes for separation of water-ethanol by pervaporation. 42(2) 139-142. 

Lopez, E., Divins, N.J. and Llorca, J. (2012) Hydrogen production from ethanol over Pd-Rh/Ce02 with a metallic membrane reactor. Catalysis Today, 193, 145-150. Montane, D., Bolshak, E. and Abello, S. (2011) Thermodynamic analysis of fuel processors based on catalytic-wall reactors and membrane systems for ethanol steam reforming. Chemical Engineering Journal, 175, 519-533. 

Lin, W.-H., Liu, Y.-C., Chang, H.-F. (2008). Hydrogen production from oxidative steam reforming of ethanol in a palladium—silver alloy composite membrane reactor. Journal of the Chinese Institute of Chemical Engineers, 39, 435—440. 

Tosti, S., Borelli, R., Santucci, A., Scuppa, L. (2010). Pd-Ag membranes for auto-thermal ethanol reforming. Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, 5, 207—212. 

Basile, A., Gallucci, F., luhanelli. A., De Falco, M., Liguori, S. (2008). Hydrogen production by ethanol steam reforming experimental study of a Pd-Ag membrane reactor and traditional reactor behaviour. International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering, 6, A30. 

Huang, Y., Ly, J., Nguyen, D., Baker, R. W. (2010). Ethanol dehydration using hydrophobic and hydrophilic polymer membranes. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 49, 12067-12073. 

Raich, B. A., Foley, H. C. (1998). Ethanol dehydrogenation with a palladium membrane reactor an alternative to Wacker chemistry. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 37, 3888. 

De La Iglesia, O., Mallada, R., Menendez, M., Coronas, J. (2007). Continuous zeolite membrane reactor for esterification of ethanol and acetic acid. Chemical Engineering Journal, 131, 35—39. 

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