关键词:
Solution chemistry
Liquid liquid equilibrium
Chromatography
Vapor pressure
Water
摘要:
Because of the depletion of fossil fuels and associated environmental problems, the biotechnological production of 1-butanol used as a gasoline blend is of renewed interest. Biobutanol from biomass is obtained in aqueous solution at low concentration with impurities in the fermentation broth. To perform extraction of biobutanol from the aqueous solution, liquid-liquid (LLE) and vapor-liquid equilibria (VLE) are necessary. With this aim, we determined VLE of two pure compounds (1-butanol and 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene) and two binary systems (n-dodecane + 1-butanol and 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene + 1-butanol) as well as carried out LLE measurements at atmospheric pressure of water + butanol (2, 4, and 6% weight in water) + 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene and water + butanol (6% weight in water) + dodecane and the system (1,3,5-trimethylbenzene + water) at 283.15, 303.15, and 333.15 K. Comparison of the two extraction solvents (1,3,5-trimethylbenzene and n-dodecane) shows that the content of butanol in the aqueous phase is very close and the mole fraction for butanol is twice higher in 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene than in n-dodecane. VLE and LLE results were compared with the literature data, a good agreement is observed in both cases. The non-random two liquid (NRTL) model was used for predicting the ternary systems. The adjustable parameters of the model were determined by regression of the binary data (VLE and LLE). Experimental and predicted mutual solubility values are in good agreement.