Hydrophilic membranes to replace molecular sieves in dewatering the bio-ethanol/water azeotropic mixture

Separation and Purification Technology

Volumn 136, Issue , 2014, Pages 144-149

  Kang, Qian ^a,b   Huybrechts, Jannis ^a   Van Der Bruggen, Bart ^a   Baeyens, Jan ^b   Tan, Tianwei ^b   Dewil, Raf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bio ethanol; Ethanol water azeotrope; Membrane dehydration; Molecular sieve

Indexed keywords

AZEOTROPIC MIXTURE; BIO-ETHANOLS; ETHANOL-WATER; HYDROPHILIC MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE DEHYDRATION;

MOLECULAR SIEVES;

EID: 84907504263     PISSN: 13835866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2014.09.009     Document Type: Article

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