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Pervaporative stripping of acetone, butanol and ethanol to improve ABE fermentation

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Acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation by anaerobic bacterium C. acetobutylicum is a potential source for feedstock chemicals. The problem of product induced inhibition makes this fermentation economically infeasible. Pervaporation is studied as an effective separation technique to remove the toxic inhibitory products. Various membranes like Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SBR), Ethylene Propylene Diene Rubber (EPDM), plain Poly Dimethyl Siloxane (PDMS) and silicalite filled PDMS were studied for the removal of acetone, butanol and ethanol, from binary aqueous mixtures and from a quaternary mixture. It was found that the overall performance of PDMS filled with 15% w/w of silicalite was the best for removal of butanol in binary mixture study. SBR performance was best for the quaternary mixture studied.

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  1. Department of Chemical Technology, University of Mumbai, Matunga, Mumbai, 400 018, India

    Kawedia D. Jitesh & Vishwas G. Pangarkar

  2. Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Reading, Whitenights, PO Box 226, Reading, RG6 2AP, UK

    K. Niranjan

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Jitesh, K.D., Pangarkar, V.G. & Niranjan, K. Pervaporative stripping of acetone, butanol and ethanol to improve ABE fermentation. Bioseparation 9, 145–154 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008129713552

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