Membranes for dehydration of alcohols via pervaporation

M S Jyothi; Kakarla Raghava Reddy; K Soontarapa; S Naveen; Anjanapura V Raghu; Raghavendra V Kulkarni; D P Suhas; Nagaraj P Shetti; Mallikarjuna N Nadagouda; Tejraj M Aminabhavi

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.04.043

Membranes for dehydration of alcohols via pervaporation

J Environ Manage. 2019 Jul 15:242:415-429. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.04.043. Epub 2019 May 4.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemical Technology, Faculty of Sciences, & Center of Excellence on Petrochemical and Materials Technology, Chulalongkorn University, 10330, Thailand.
² School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Electronic address: reddy.chem@gmail.com.
³ Department of Basic Sciences, Center for Emerging Technology, SET, JAIN Deemed to be University, Bangalore 562 112, India.
⁴ Department of Basic Sciences, Center for Emerging Technology, SET, JAIN Deemed to be University, Bangalore 562 112, India. Electronic address: gsraghu2003@yahoo.co.in.
⁵ Department of Pharmaceutics, BLDEA's SSM College of Pharmacy and Research Centre, Vijayapur, 586 103, Karnataka, India.
⁶ Department of Chemistry, St. Joseph's College, Langford Road, Bangalore, 560027, India.
⁷ Department of Chemistry, K.L.E. Institute of Technology, Gokul, Hubballi, 580030, India.
⁸ Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 45324, USA.
⁹ SET's College of Pharmacy, Dharwad, 580 002, India. Electronic address: aminabhavit@gmail.com.

PMID: 31063879
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.04.043

Abstract

Alcohols are the essential chemicals used in a variety of pharmaceutical and chemical industries. The extreme purity of alcohols in many of such industrial applications is essential. Though distillation is one of the methods used conventionally to purify alcohols, the method consumes more energy and requires carcinogenic entertainers, making the process environmentally toxic. Alternatively, efforts have been made to focus research efforts on alcohol dehydration by the pervaporation (PV) separation technique using polymeric membranes. The present review is focused on alcohol dehydration using PV separation technique, which is the most efficient and benign method of purifying alcohols that are required in fine chemicals synthesis and developing pharmaceutical formulations. This review will discuss about the latest developments in the area of PV technique used in alcohol dehydration using a variety of novel membranes.

Keywords: Dehydration; Nanostructures; Pervaporation; Polymer membranes; Separation applications.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Dehydration*
Distillation
Ethanol
Humans
Membranes, Artificial*
Polymers

Substances

Membranes, Artificial
Polymers
Ethanol