Effect of organic solvents in separation section of levulinic acid production : synthesis of distillation sequences |
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Author: | Tuppurainen, Ville1; Ahola, Juha1; Tanskanen, Juha1 |
Organizations: |
1University of Oulu, Chemical Process Engineering Research Unit |
Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.7 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2018121450879 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Italian Association of Chemical Engineering,
2018
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Publish Date: | 2018-12-14 |
Description: |
AbstractThis work highlights the system specific characteristics encountered when considering a distillation-based separation strategy for levulinic acid (LA) and the by-product formic acid (FA) in the presence of water and water-miscible sulfolane or γ-valerolactone (GVL) solvents. Simulation using Aspen Plus® was applied to identify the presence of distillation boundary surfaces and tangent pinches resulting from the non-ideal behaviour of the mixtures in question. In the applied feed composition regions, the separation performance of the GVL solvent system in particular is limited by these restricting conditions. Minimum energy requirements for the separation of valuable components are presented as the conceptual design performance indicators, allowing the benchmarking of separation strategies. Sidedraw column configurations offer advantages in enriching the dilute valuable compounds from the feed and performing difficult separations at lower solvent quantities. This is especially advantageous for the sulfolane system where both LA and FA are intermediate-boiling. see all
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Series: |
Chemical engineering transactions |
ISSN: | 1974-9791 |
ISSN-E: | 2283-9216 |
ISSN-L: | 1974-9791 |
ISBN: | 978-88-95608-66-2 |
Volume: | 69 |
Pages: | 235 - 240 |
DOI: | 10.3303/CET1869040 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.3303/CET1869040 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
215 Chemical engineering |
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Funding: |
The authors are grateful for the financial support from the ERDF project Biomass value chains (decision nr EURA 2014/2191/09 02 01 01/2015/KPLIITTO) and from the Academy of Finland (grant number 286633). |
Academy of Finland Grant Number: |
286633 |
Detailed Information: |
286633 (Academy of Finland Funding decision) |
Copyright information: |
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