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Preparation and Characterization of Perfluorosulfonic Acid Nanofiber Membranes for Pervaporation-Assisted Esterification

Abstract

Multilayer membranes were prepared by the combination of perfluorosulfonic acid/SiO<sub>2</sub> nanofibers and a poly­(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) pervaporation layer and were used to enhance the esterification of acetic acid (HAc) and ethanol (EtOH). The esterification–pervaporation experiments were carried out in a continuous membrane contactor. The effects of the temperature, the ratio of HAc to EtOH, and the ratio of membrane area to reaction volume were investigated. The results demonstrated that the membranes had good catalytic activities even at low temperature because of the nanofibrous structure of the catalysis layer. The conversion of HAc at 60 °C after 10 h was 10–15% more than the equilibrium conversion and by improved about 45% with respect to the equilibrium conversion after 55 h. The yield of EtAc was higher than 90%, which demonstrates that the difunctional membrane could enhance the esterification process greatly through the in situ removal of water

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Last time updated on 12/02/2018

This paper was published in The Francis Crick Institute.

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