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Title: Extraction Rate and Energy Efficiency of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Recovery of Higher Alcohols from Dilute Aqueous Solution

Abstract

Abstract New biotechnologies have been developed to produce higher alcohols, including various isomers of butanol, pentanol, and hexanol. The thermodynamic properties of higher alcohols—i.e., low volatility and moderate water solubility—make them good candidates for extraction using supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO 2 ). Here, we studied semi‐batch extraction of several representative higher alcohols, including n ‐butanol, n ‐pentanol, and n ‐hexanol from dilute aqueous solutions using scCO 2 , measuring the initial extraction rates and extraction efficiencies, where the extraction efficiency was defined as the grams of alcohol recovered per gram of scCO 2 . In all cases, the extraction kinetics were well described by a simple first‐order disappearance model and the extraction rates were much greater than the published butanol bioproduction rates. Quantitatively, the initial extraction rates and efficiencies, respectively, for both n ‐hexanol and n ‐pentanol were 1.6±0.2 and 1.3±0.1 times greater than that for n ‐butanol. These results were analyzed for semi‐continuous alcohol recovery and compared with previous literature on butanol gas stripping to evaluate the competitiveness of the scCO 2 separation strategy.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester MA 01609 USA
  2. Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02142 USA
  3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02142 USA
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OSTI Identifier:
1419895
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012555
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Journal Name:
Energy Technology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Energy Technology Journal Volume: 6 Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2194-4288
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Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
Country of Publication:
Germany
Language:
English

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Tompsett, Geoffrey A., Boock, Jason T., DiSpirito, Cameron, Stolz, Eric, Knutson, David R., Rivard, Allison G., Overdevest, Mark R., Conlon, Chelsea N., Prather, Kristala L. J., Thompson, Janelle R., and Timko, Michael T. Extraction Rate and Energy Efficiency of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Recovery of Higher Alcohols from Dilute Aqueous Solution. Germany: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1002/ente.201700626.
Tompsett, Geoffrey A., Boock, Jason T., DiSpirito, Cameron, Stolz, Eric, Knutson, David R., Rivard, Allison G., Overdevest, Mark R., Conlon, Chelsea N., Prather, Kristala L. J., Thompson, Janelle R., & Timko, Michael T. Extraction Rate and Energy Efficiency of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Recovery of Higher Alcohols from Dilute Aqueous Solution. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/ente.201700626
Tompsett, Geoffrey A., Boock, Jason T., DiSpirito, Cameron, Stolz, Eric, Knutson, David R., Rivard, Allison G., Overdevest, Mark R., Conlon, Chelsea N., Prather, Kristala L. J., Thompson, Janelle R., and Timko, Michael T. Thu . "Extraction Rate and Energy Efficiency of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Recovery of Higher Alcohols from Dilute Aqueous Solution". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/ente.201700626.
@article{osti_1419895,
title = {Extraction Rate and Energy Efficiency of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Recovery of Higher Alcohols from Dilute Aqueous Solution},
author = {Tompsett, Geoffrey A. and Boock, Jason T. and DiSpirito, Cameron and Stolz, Eric and Knutson, David R. and Rivard, Allison G. and Overdevest, Mark R. and Conlon, Chelsea N. and Prather, Kristala L. J. and Thompson, Janelle R. and Timko, Michael T.},
abstractNote = {Abstract New biotechnologies have been developed to produce higher alcohols, including various isomers of butanol, pentanol, and hexanol. The thermodynamic properties of higher alcohols—i.e., low volatility and moderate water solubility—make them good candidates for extraction using supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO 2 ). Here, we studied semi‐batch extraction of several representative higher alcohols, including n ‐butanol, n ‐pentanol, and n ‐hexanol from dilute aqueous solutions using scCO 2 , measuring the initial extraction rates and extraction efficiencies, where the extraction efficiency was defined as the grams of alcohol recovered per gram of scCO 2 . In all cases, the extraction kinetics were well described by a simple first‐order disappearance model and the extraction rates were much greater than the published butanol bioproduction rates. Quantitatively, the initial extraction rates and efficiencies, respectively, for both n ‐hexanol and n ‐pentanol were 1.6±0.2 and 1.3±0.1 times greater than that for n ‐butanol. These results were analyzed for semi‐continuous alcohol recovery and compared with previous literature on butanol gas stripping to evaluate the competitiveness of the scCO 2 separation strategy.},
doi = {10.1002/ente.201700626},
journal = {Energy Technology},
number = 4,
volume = 6,
place = {Germany},
year = {Thu Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Thu Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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