Isolation of ethanol from its aqueous solution by liquid phase adsorption and gas phase desorption using molecular sieving carbon |
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Authors: | Hirotaka Fujita Qingrong Qian Takao Fujii Kazuhiro Mochizuki Akiyoshi Sakoda |
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Institution: | (1) State Institute of Economics, Finance, Law, and Technologies, St. Petersburg, Russia |
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Abstract: | A novel bioethanol separation process was proposed in this study employing molecular sieving carbon (MSC) as an adsorbent,
whose pore diameter is close to molecular size of ethanol. In the proposed process, fermentation broth is first introduced
to the adsorption bed packed with MSC. In this step, ethanol is selectively adsorbed onto MSC, with highly enriching ethanol
in the micropore of MSC. Subsequently, the concentrated ethanol is desorbed from MSC to gaseous phase, resulting in further
purification of ethanol owing to a considerable difference in desorption rate between water and ethanol; Because of molecular
sieving effect of MSC, the desorption rate of ethanol is much smaller than that of water. To establish this process, adsorption
equilibrium and kinetics of ethanol on various MSCs were investigated in aqueous phase as the first step. Also, desorption
kinetics of ethanol and water in gaseous phase were investigated. As a result, it was suggested that highly concentrated ethanol
could be obtained with high recovery ratio through these simple operations, meaning the proposed process is quite promising. |
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