1. Energy-Saving and Sustainable Separation of Bioalcohols by Adsorption on Bone Char
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Maria Papadaki, Oslery Becerra-Pérez, Stavros Georgopoulos, Adrian Bonilla-Petriciolet, Hilda Elizabeth Reynel-Avila, Maria Lanara, and Didilia Ileana Mendoza-Castillo
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Exothermic reaction ,Bone char ,Aqueous solution ,Article Subject ,020209 energy ,General Chemical Engineering ,Butanol ,Physical and theoretical chemistry ,QD450-801 ,02 engineering and technology ,Surfaces and Interfaces ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Propanol ,Hydrophobic effect ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Adsorption ,chemistry ,Chemical engineering ,Biofuel ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,0210 nano-technology - Abstract
The separation of ethanol, propanol, and butanol from aqueous solutions was studied using adsorption on bone char. Adsorption kinetics and thermodynamic parameters of this separation method were studied at different conditions of pH and temperature. Results showed that the maximum adsorption capacities of these bioalcohols were obtained at pH 6 and 20°C. An exothermic separation was identified, which can be mainly associated to hydrophobic interactions between bone char surface and bioalcohols. Binary adsorption studies were also performed using mixtures of these bioalcohols. An antagonistic adsorption was observed for all bioalcohols where the ethanol and propanol separation was significantly affected by butanol. A model based on an artificial neural network was proposed to correlate both single and binary adsorption isotherms of these bioalcohols with bone char. It was concluded that the bone char could be an interesting adsorbent for the sustainable separation and recovery of bioalcohols from fermentation broths, which are actually considered emerging liquid biofuels and relevant industrial chemicals.
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- 2021
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