Characterisation of inorganic composite ceramic membrane for lactic acid esterification processes.

Okon, Edidiong; Shehu, Habiba; Gobina, Edward

Abstract

The use of inorganic composite membranes in chemical industries has received a lot of attention more recently due to a number of exceptional advantages, including thermal stability and robustness. Inorganic membranes can selectively remove water from the reaction mixture during esterification reactions in order to enhance product formation. The characterisation of inorganic composite membranes used in this work including the determination of the pore diameter and specific surface area was performed using liquid nitrogen adsorption at 77 K. The membrane was modified once. The permeation test for the single gases including carbon dioxide (CO2), helium (He), nitrogen (N2) and argon (Ar) through the inorganic composite ceramic membrane was carried out at the gauge pressure range of 0.10-1.00 bar and at the temperature of 393 K. The order of the gas molecular weight was He < N2 < CO2 < Ar. The BET surface area of the dip-coated silica membrane showed a type IV isotherm characteristic of mesoporous structure with hysteresis. The BJH curve of the silica-membrane was in accordance with mesoporous classification.

Citation

OKON, E., SHEHU, H. and GOBINA, E. 2015. Characterisation of inorganic composite ceramic membrane for lactic acid esterification processes. Advanced materials research: metal, ceramic and composite materials; selected papers from the 2015 International conference on metal, ceramic and composite materials (ICMCCM-2015), 24-25 January 2015, Shanghai, China [online], 1102, pages 99-102. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1102.99

• Journal Article Type: Conference Paper
• Conference Name: 2015 International conference on metal, ceramic and composite materials 2015 (ICMCCM-2015)
• Conference Location: Shanghai, China
• Start Date: Jan 24, 2015
• End Date: Jan 25, 2015
• Acceptance Date: May 1, 2015
• Publication Date: May 31, 2015
• Deposit Date: Sep 27, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 27, 2016
• Journal: Advanced materials research
• Print ISSN: 1022-6680
• Electronic ISSN: 1662-8985
• Publisher: Trans Tech Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 1102
• Pages: 99-102
• Series ISSN: 1662-8985
• ISBN: 9783038354611
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1102.99
• Keywords: Characterisation; Composite membrane; Esterification; Gas transport; Nitrogen adsorption
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1839