APPLICATION OF PROCESS INTENSIFICATION METHODOLOGY TO PROPIONIC ACID RECOVERY

Keshav, Amit; Wasewar, Kailas L.; Chand, Shri

doi:10.21608/iccee.2008.38396

APPLICATION OF PROCESS INTENSIFICATION METHODOLOGY TO PROPIONIC ACID RECOVERY

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Research scholar, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India.

² Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India. Corresponding Author.

³ Professor and Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India.

10.21608/iccee.2008.38396

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.

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