Alcohol Dehydration Using Organic Solids. Final Report. Alcohol-Fuels Grant Program

摘要

The Technology Applications Lab of Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station conducted a study which investigated the important design parameters related to construction of commercial size ethanol dehydration units based on preferential adsorption of water from aqueous ethanol vapor in a fixed bed of starchy or cellulose material. A pilot unit rated at 25 gallons per hour aqueous ethanol was built and several test runs made using sorbents which had proven successful on a lab-scale. Laboratory experimentation was also performed which was aimed at a better understanding of the parameters important to the process and an assessment of the magnitude of their effect. This report details the findings of this project and includes a description of the pilot dehydration unit, the test runs that were made, data taken during and after the pilot runs, and the conclusions and recommendations which resulted. (ERA citation 08:038596)