Biobutanol has characteristics similar to petroleum fuel and is considered as a superior biofuel compared to ethanol. The development of technologies for biobutanol production by fermentation has resulted in higher final biobutanol concentrations together with less energy‐intensive separation and purification techniques. These new technological developments have the potential to provide a production process for biobutanol that is economically viable in comparison to the petrochemical pathway for its production. The control properties of four different possible process designs for biobutanol purification are analyzed. The results, using the singular value decomposition technique, indicated that the scheme where only biobutanol flow is purified, and both ethanol and acetone leaving the purification process mixed with water and biobutanol traces, showed the best control properties. 相似文献
N, O-carboxymethyl chitosan (NOCC) composite nanofiltration (NF) membranes were prepared by coating and cross-linking. The fermentation effluent from a wine factory was treated with the resulting NOCC/polysulfone (PSF) composite NF membranes. The permeate flux and the removal efficiencies of the resulting NF membranes for the color, chemical oxygen demand (CODcr), total organic carbon (TOC), and conductivity of the fermentation effluent were investigated in relation to the driving pressure, the feed flow, and the operation time. The permeate flux and the removal efficiencies were found to increase with the increase of the driving pressure or the feed flow. At 0.40 MPa and ambient temperature the removal efficiencies were 95.5%, 70.7%, 72.6%, and 31.6% for color, CODcr, TOC, and conductivity, respectively. The membrane was found to be stable over a 10-h ooeration for the fermentation effluent treatment. 相似文献
Summary: Polystyrene (PS)/epoxy‐amine (DGEBA‐MDEA) is a thermoplastic/thermoset precursor blend which is miscible at high temperature (177 °C), and which phase separates under the polymerization of the epoxy‐amine system. Previous studies have shown that the morphology of this blend polymerized under shear is coarse and irregular because the dispersed epoxy‐amine domains coalesce before they gel. Several styrene‐methyl methacrylate and a styrene‐butadiene‐styrene block copolymers have been added to the PS/DGEBA‐MDEA 60/40 blend in order to limit the coalescence and thus obtain a finer morphology. Two of the copolymers used were reactive either with the epoxy or with the amine. It was shown that the addition of 15 wt.‐% of non reactive copolymer had a positive but limited effect on the size of the final epoxy‐amine particles. The copolymer remained at the interface at the early stages of the polymerization. However, it was pulled out by the shear forces around the gel point of the epoxy domains. Most of the non reactive copolymer was present in the shape of micelles at the end of the process. On the other hand, the reactive copolymers were able to establish covalent bonds with the epoxy‐amine drops and hence were not extracted at all. Consequently they allowed the decrease the size of the particles by a factor of 15. Despite this, the observation of the morphology at different stages of the polymerization has revealed that the copolymer moved at the interface of the epoxy domains during the collision of two droplets. The movements of fluids into the epoxy domains pushed the copolymer out of the inter‐droplet zone so that it could not prevent the drainage of the liquid film between the droplets and consequently their coalescence.
TEM showing that the layer of copolymer (in dark grey) has moved along the interface of epoxy‐amine drops during their successful collision in a polystyrene‐rich matrix. 相似文献
Lignocellulose is considered an efficient raw material to produce fuel ethanol. Clean utilization of the solid residue derived from lignocellulose‐based fuel ethanol is important for the biomass‐to‐ethanol production chain. Combustion characteristics of the residue originating from corn stalk‐based cellulosic ethanol are studied in a circulating fluidized bed. Results indicate that circulating fluidized‐bed combustion is an effective and stable way to burn the residue with high moisture content. CO emission during biomass combustion in a circulating fluidized bed is low in the range of several ppm. NO and N2O are the major pollutants during residue combustion. The optimal combustion temperature is limited to avoid agglomeration and reduce pollutant emission. Design data and theoretical support for design and operation of the residue combustion circulating fluidized‐bed boiler are provided. 相似文献
The objectives of the project reported here were to perform an energy analysis for the process of the recovery of ethanol from fermentation broths by catalytic conversion to gasoline and to conduct a pinch analysis to obtain a new heat exchanger network, and thus, reduce the utility costs. A minimum temperature difference of 10 °C was used. A temperature interval diagram and cascade diagram were drawn to identify the pinch points and four such points were observed. New heat exchanger networks were formulated from this information. The least number of heat exchangers for the different networks created was 19, whereas the original process had 9. The cost of utilities was the same for both systems. Therefore, it was concluded that the implementation of this system in the Caribbean could be expensive since in the first instance, ethanol is not particularly plentiful. Secondly, electricity and water costs are expensive in the Caribbean compared to other countries in America, such that any effort in reducing CO2 emissions by using ethanol would not be feasible. 相似文献