APPLICATION OF PROCESS INTENSIFICATION METHODOLOGY TO PROPIONIC ACID RECOVERY | ||
| The International Conference on Chemical and Environmental Engineering | ||
| Article 17, Volume 4, 4th International Conference On Chemical & Environmental Engineering, May 2008, Pages 298-310 PDF (391.42 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/iccee.2008.38396 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Amit Keshav1; Kailas L. Wasewar2; Shri Chand3 | ||
| 1Research scholar, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India. | ||
| 2Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India. Corresponding Author. | ||
| 3Professor and Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| ABSTRACT Increasing competition among the different industries made chemical industry to look for alternative processes or techniques which could provide a low cost and environmentally friendly production which have had not been provided by the existing setups. This could be the only alternative to survive the competition of other industries like software etc. With this view, fermentation and recovery of propionic acid was taken for discussion. Process intensification methodology was applied to the existing process. The shortcomings in the existing setup were removed by introduction of PI technology (reactive extraction). The high productivity, improved propionate yield, highly concentrated and purified product and stable and consistent performance of the reactive extraction process, proposed it to as a suitable process for recovery of propionic acid. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Process intensification; methodology; Reactive extraction; propionic acid | ||
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