Process for recovering organic components from liquid streams

Patent · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:867898

Blume, Ingo ^[1]; Baker, Richard W ^[2]

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1. Hengelo, NL
2. Palo Alto, CA

A separation process for recovering organic components from liquid streams. The process is a combination of pervaporation and decantation. In cases where the liquid stream contains the organic to be separated in dissolved form, the pervaporation step is used to concentrate the organic to a point above the solubility limit, so that a two-phase permeate is formed and then decanted. In cases where the liquid stream is a two-phase mixture, the decantation step is performed first, to remove the organic product phase, and the residue from the decanter is then treated by pervaporation. The condensed permeate from the pervaporation unit is sufficiently concentrated in the organic component to be fed back to the decanter. The process can be tailored to produce only two streams: an essentially pure organic product stream suitable for reuse, and a residue stream for discharge or reuse.

• Research Organization: MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY & RES INC
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-83ER13054
• Assignee: Membrane Technology & Research, Inc. (Menlo Park, CA)
• Patent Number(s): US 5030356
• OSTI ID: 867898
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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