Challenges in biobutanol production: how to improve the efficiency?

V García, J Päkkilä, H Ojamo, E Muurinen… - … and sustainable energy …, 2011 - Elsevier
There is an increasing interest in the production of chemicals and fuels from renewable
resources due to the continuing price increase of fossil resources, the insecurity of the …

A review of pervaporation for product recovery from biomass fermentation processes

LM Vane - Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Although several separation technologies are technically capable of removing volatile
products from fermentation broths, distillation remains the dominant technology. This is …

Pervaporation performance of PDMS/ceramic composite membrane in acetone butanol ethanol (ABE) fermentation–PV coupled process

G Liu, W Wei, H Wu, X Dong, M Jiang, W Jin - Journal of Membrane …, 2011 - Elsevier
Pervaporation (PV) has attracted increasing attention owing to its potential application in
biofuel recovery from biomass fermentation process. In this work, PDMS/ceramic composite …

Fundamentals of fouling

R Field - Membranes for water treatment, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Before examining fouling, it is important to understand some of the ways in which membrane
flux is reduced below that of the corresponding pure water flux (or more generally pure …

Production of hydrogen from biomass and its separation using membrane technology

G Sołowski, MS Shalaby, H Abdallah… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Hydrogen is an important raw material for chemical industry and feasible renewable energy
carrier that could replace fossil fuels. However, the specie seldom exists in a form of pure H …

Influence of fermentation by-products on the purification of ethanol from water using pervaporation

S Chovau, S Gaykawad, AJJ Straathof… - Bioresource …, 2011 - Elsevier
Pervaporation is claimed to be a promising separation technique for the purification of
ethanol from fermentation broths during bio-ethanol production. In this study, influence of …

Pervaporative separation of n-butanol from dilute aqueous solutions using silicalite-filled poly (dimethyl siloxane) membranes

EA Fouad, X Feng - Journal of Membrane Science, 2009 - Elsevier
Pervaporative separation of n-butanol from dilute aqueous solutions (< 0.5 wt%) using a
silicalite-filled poly (dimethyl siloxane) composite membrane was investigated. The effects of …

Removal of dichloromethane from ground and wastewater: A review

M Shestakova, M Sillanpää - Chemosphere, 2013 - Elsevier
Dichloromethane (DCM) is a toxic volatile compound which is found in the ground waters
and wastewaters of the pharmaceutical, chemical, textile, metal-working and petroleum …

Multicomponent pervaporation process for volatile aroma compounds recovery from pomegranate juice

A Raisi, A Aroujalian, T Kaghazchi - Journal of Membrane Science, 2008 - Elsevier
The present work describes the possibility of using pervaporation process to recover the
pomegranate aroma compounds from an actual pomegranate juice and a model aroma …

The pervaporative membrane with vertically aligned carbon nanotube nanochannel for enhancing butanol recovery

D Yang, C Cheng, M Bao, L Chen, Y Bao… - Journal of membrane …, 2019 - Elsevier
Vertically aligned (VA) and open-ended carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays filled
polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) composite membrane was fabricated, characterized, and …