Combined pre-concentrator/recovery column design for ethanol dehydration process

Saiful Arifin*, I. Lung Chien

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Ethanol dehydration process is important in producing high-purity ethanol from renewable biomass resources. The optimal design flowsheet to produce high-purity ethanol via heterogeneous azeotropic distillation is presented. A classical example of ethanol dehydration system is to use benzene as entrainer to aid the separation. However, because benzene is a known carcinogen, the design concept is demonstrated using cyclohexane or n-hexane as entrainer. This is an abstract of a paper presented at the AIChE Spring National Meeting (Houston, TX 4/22-27/2007).

Original languageEnglish
StatePublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event2007 AIChE Spring National Meeting - Houston, TX, United States
Duration: 22 04 200727 04 2007

Conference

Conference2007 AIChE Spring National Meeting
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHouston, TX
Period22/04/0727/04/07

Keywords

  • Design and control
  • Ethanol dehydration
  • Heterogeneous azeotropic distillation
  • Pre-concentrator column
  • Recovery column

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