Pervaporation

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Pervaporation is gradually evolving from a novel approach into an efficient and eco-freiendly unit operation in the arena of separation science and technology. It is widely touted as an advanced membrane process capable of efficient separation of heat sensitive volatile organic components or an azeotropic mixture. Here the feed liquid is brought into contact with a dense lyophilized membrane film; and one component of the feed preferentially permeates through the membrane. The permeate (or pervaporate) is then recovered as a vapor from the downstream side of the film - typically by sweeping with a carrier gas or by reducing the pressure below the saturated vapor pressure of the permeating species. Pervaporation finds its significant application …show more content…

Jullok et al. (2011) [4] reported the pervaporative separation of acetic acid by a novel polyphenyl sulfone membrane For 90 wt% HAc, the separation factor was 8.4 for PPSU-27.5 and 5.7 for PPSU-30. Miyoshi et al. (1988) [5] carried out dehydration of an aqueous acetic acid solution through commercial ion-exchange membranes. Separation of water-acetic acid mixtures by using a blend membrane composed of poly (vinyl alcohol) and several hydrophilic copolymers such as poly (vinyl pyrrolidone) could achieve the separation factor of 34 with a flux of 140 g/m2-h at 25°C [6]. Kuila and Ray (2011) [7] reported the dehydration of acetic acid using a chemically modified polyvinyl alcohol membrane (full interpenetrating network membrane). In another study, pervaporative dehydration of acetic acid was conducted using polyelectrolytes complex (PEC)/11-phosphotungstic acid hydrate (PW11) hybrid membrane (PEC/PW11). The hybrid membrane containing 9 wt% PW11 exhibited the best pervaporation performance, whose averaged permeation flux was 0.440 kg/m2/h and separation factor was 144 for 90 wt% aqueous solution of acetic acid at 50oC [8]. A few other membranes used in the dehydration of acetic acid solution are polydimethyl siloxane (PDMS) [9], organosilica membranes prepared from bis(triethoxysilyl) ethane (BTESE) [10], NaY zeolite and hybrid poly(vinyl alcohol) composite membrane [11], sulfonated polybenzimidazole (Wang et al., 2012) [12] and so

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