TY - GEN
T1 - Bioethanol dehydration in thermally integrated extractive distillation columns
AU - Nguyen, Nghi
AU - Sim, Jiwon
AU - Demirel, Yaşar
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Bioethanol plants produce dilute mixture of around 10-wt% of ethanol in water. Ethanol is distillated to 96%, and most commonly, sent to a molecular sieve, which absorbs water. The molecular sieve is regenerated by heating to remove water. As the capacity of ethanol production increases molecular sieve becomes thermally inefficient. Beside that the distillation of ethanol could consume up to 50% of the overall energy used in a typical grain alcohol plant. Ethanol purification by distillation requires extractive distillation with an entrainer, such as pentane, benzene, diethyl ether, ethylene glycol, toluene, cyclohexane, methoxy-ethanol, ethyl tert-butyl ether, and bioglycerol. Entrainer breaks the azeotrope which forms between ethanol and water at 95.6 wt% ethanol (at atmospheric pressure). The study analyzes the potential of using thermally integrated columns to save energy for the purification of ethanol from water using ethylene glycol as entrainer.
AB - Bioethanol plants produce dilute mixture of around 10-wt% of ethanol in water. Ethanol is distillated to 96%, and most commonly, sent to a molecular sieve, which absorbs water. The molecular sieve is regenerated by heating to remove water. As the capacity of ethanol production increases molecular sieve becomes thermally inefficient. Beside that the distillation of ethanol could consume up to 50% of the overall energy used in a typical grain alcohol plant. Ethanol purification by distillation requires extractive distillation with an entrainer, such as pentane, benzene, diethyl ether, ethylene glycol, toluene, cyclohexane, methoxy-ethanol, ethyl tert-butyl ether, and bioglycerol. Entrainer breaks the azeotrope which forms between ethanol and water at 95.6 wt% ethanol (at atmospheric pressure). The study analyzes the potential of using thermally integrated columns to save energy for the purification of ethanol from water using ethylene glycol as entrainer.
KW - Azeotrope
KW - Ethanol
KW - Ethylene glycol
KW - Thermally integrated column
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78751496708
SN - 9780816910656
T3 - AIChE Annual Meeting, Conference Proceedings
BT - 10AIChE - 2010 AIChE Annual Meeting, Conference Proceedings
T2 - 2010 AIChE Annual Meeting, 10AIChE
Y2 - 7 November 2010 through 12 November 2010
ER -