Although the performance of membrane reactors(MR) is highly affected by the ratio of membrane area-toreaction volume, there are few studies on this effect owing to the difficulties associated with reactor manufacture....Although the performance of membrane reactors(MR) is highly affected by the ratio of membrane area-toreaction volume, there are few studies on this effect owing to the difficulties associated with reactor manufacture. In this study, an MR with high A/V ratio, a diameter of 35 m,and a height of 0.8 mm was fabricated. Separation performance of this MR was investigated in an n-butanol/water system. Esterification of acetic acid and n-butanol was used as the model reaction to investigate the performance of catalytically active membrane reactors(CAMR)with different A/V ratios. The reaction conversion was 38.59% in the CAMR with the high A/V ratio of 12,497/m,which was much higher than that in other CAMRs, for reaction time of 60 min and W/Vfratio of 0.093 g/mL.Excellent catalytic stability of the CAMR was confirmed by performing long-term stability experiments.展开更多
基金Supported by Research Project of Chinese Ministry of Education(No.v201308)National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21476010)
文摘Although the performance of membrane reactors(MR) is highly affected by the ratio of membrane area-toreaction volume, there are few studies on this effect owing to the difficulties associated with reactor manufacture. In this study, an MR with high A/V ratio, a diameter of 35 m,and a height of 0.8 mm was fabricated. Separation performance of this MR was investigated in an n-butanol/water system. Esterification of acetic acid and n-butanol was used as the model reaction to investigate the performance of catalytically active membrane reactors(CAMR)with different A/V ratios. The reaction conversion was 38.59% in the CAMR with the high A/V ratio of 12,497/m,which was much higher than that in other CAMRs, for reaction time of 60 min and W/Vfratio of 0.093 g/mL.Excellent catalytic stability of the CAMR was confirmed by performing long-term stability experiments.
