Acetalization reaction of ethanol with butyraldehyde coupled with pervaporation. Semi-batch pervaporation studies and resistance of HybSi® membranes to catalyst impacts

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 371, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 179-188

  Agirre, I ^a,b   Guemez M B ^a   van Veen, H M ^b   Motelica, A ^b   Vente, J F ^b   Arias, P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acetal; Amberlyst; HybSi ; Membrane reactor; Pervaporation

Indexed keywords

ACETAL; ACETALIZATION REACTION; AMBERLYST; INITIAL COMPOSITION; KINETIC DATA; MECHANICAL RESISTANCE; MEMBRANE PERFORMANCE; MEMBRANE REACTOR; ORGANIC/INORGANIC; PERVAPORATION DEHYDRATION; QUATERNARY MIXTURES; REACTION SYSTEM; SEMI-BATCH; SOLID CATALYSTS; THERMODYNAMIC VALUES;

ALDEHYDES; BIOREACTORS; BUTANE; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL STABILITY; DEHYDRATION; DEWATERING; ETHANOL; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PERVAPORATION;

MEMBRANES;

ACETAL; ALCOHOL; BUTYRALDEHYDE;

ACETALIZATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOCATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MEMBRANE STABILIZATION; PERVAPORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOICHIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79952251318     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2011.01.031     Document Type: Article

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