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 language | English |
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State | Published - 2007 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 2007 AIChE Spring National Meeting - Houston, TX, United States Duration: 22 04 2007 → 27 04 2007 |
Conference
Conference | 2007 AIChE Spring National Meeting |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Houston, TX |
Period | 22/04/07 → 27/04/07 |
Keywords
- Design and control
- Ethanol dehydration
- Heterogeneous azeotropic distillation
- Pre-concentrator column
- Recovery column