Separation of butanol from acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation by a hybrid extraction-distillation process

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 949-963

  Kraemer, Korbinian ^a   Harwardt, Andreas ^a   Bronneberg, Rob ^a   Marquardt, Wolfgang ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABE fermentation; Butanol; Downstream process; Extraction; Process synthesis; Solvent

Indexed keywords

ABE FERMENTATIONS; ACETONE-BUTANOL-ETHANOL FERMENTATION; BUTANOL; COMPUTER AIDED MOLECULAR DESIGN; DISTILLATION PROCESS; DOWNSTREAM PROCESS; ENERGY-EFFICIENT PRODUCTS; FERMENTATION BROTHS; FLOWSHEET; FLOWSHEET STRUCTURES; HEAT INTEGRATION; HIGH COSTS; INDUSTRIAL-SCALE PRODUCTION; MINIMUM ENERGY; NOVEL PROCESS; NOVEL SOLVENTS; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; OPERATING POINTS; PROCESS SYNTHESIS; RIGOROUS MODEL; SYSTEMATIC PROCESS;

ACETONE; ALTERNATIVE FUELS; DISTILLATION; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; ETHANOL; FLOWCHARTING; OPTIMIZATION; SOLVENTS;

FERMENTATION;

EID: 79954613643     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2011.01.028     Document Type: Article

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