Pervaporation Separation of Butanol-Water Mixtures Using Polydimethylsiloxane/Ceramic Composite Membrane

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Pervaporation Separation of Butanol-Water Mixtures Using Polydimethylsiloxane/Ceramic Composite Membrane

LIU Gongping, HOU Dan, WEI Wang, XIANGLI Fenjuan, JIN Wanqin

State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing 210009, China

Received:2010-05-25 Revised:2010-11-07 Online:2011-02-28 Published:2011-02-28
Supported by:
Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2009CB623406);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(20990222);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(SBK200930313);the“Six Kinds of Important Talents”Program of Jiangsu Province(2007007)

Pervaporation Separation of Butanol-Water Mixtures Using Polydimethylsiloxane/Ceramic Composite Membrane

刘公平, 侯丹, 卫旺, 相里粉娟, 金万勤

State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing 210009, China

通讯作者: JIN Wanqin, E-mail: wqjin@njut.edu.cn
基金资助:
Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2009CB623406);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(20990222);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(SBK200930313);the“Six Kinds of Important Talents”Program of Jiangsu Province(2007007)

Abstract

Abstract: Pervaporation has attracted considerable interest owing to its potential application in recovering biobutanol from biomass acetone-butanol-ethanol(ABE)fermentation broth.In this study,butanol was recovered from its aqueous solution using a polydimethylsiloxane(PDMS)/ceramic composite pervaporation membrane.The effects of operating temperature,feed concentration,feed flow rate and operating time on the membrane pervaporation performance were investigated.It was found that with the increase of temperature or butanol concentration in the feed, the total flux through the membrane increased while the separation factor decreased slightly.As the feed flow rate increased,the total flux increased gradually while the separation factor changed little.At 40℃ and 1%(by mass) butanol in the feed,the total flux and separation factor of the membrane reached 457.4 g·m²·h^-1 and 26.1,respectively.The membrane with high flux is suitable for recovering butanol from ABE fermentation broth.

Key words: pervaporation, butanol, PDMS, ceramic, composite membrane

摘要： Pervaporation has attracted considerable interest owing to its potential application in recovering biobutanol from biomass acetone-butanol-ethanol(ABE)fermentation broth.In this study,butanol was recovered from its aqueous solution using a polydimethylsiloxane(PDMS)/ceramic composite pervaporation membrane.The effects of operating temperature,feed concentration,feed flow rate and operating time on the membrane pervaporation performance were investigated.It was found that with the increase of temperature or butanol concentration in the feed, the total flux through the membrane increased while the separation factor decreased slightly.As the feed flow rate increased,the total flux increased gradually while the separation factor changed little.At 40℃ and 1%(by mass) butanol in the feed,the total flux and separation factor of the membrane reached 457.4 g·m²·h^-1 and 26.1,respectively.The membrane with high flux is suitable for recovering butanol from ABE fermentation broth.

关键词: pervaporation, butanol, PDMS, ceramic, composite membrane

LIU Gongping, HOU Dan, WEI Wang, XIANGLI Fenjuan, JIN Wanqin. Pervaporation Separation of Butanol-Water Mixtures Using Polydimethylsiloxane/Ceramic Composite Membrane[J]. , 2011, 19(1): 40-44.

刘公平, 侯丹, 卫旺, 相里粉娟, 金万勤. Pervaporation Separation of Butanol-Water Mixtures Using Polydimethylsiloxane/Ceramic Composite Membrane[J]. , 2011, 19(1): 40-44.

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