Acrylic Acid Removal Using Membrane Contactors during Acrylate Downstream Processing: A Techno-economic Assessment Universiteit Hasselt
In the acrylate industry, the conventional acrylic acid (AA) removal process uses a water washing tower that features a large water consumption of approximately 10 m(3)/kg of AA and by consequence entails an energy-intensive distillation step in the downstream processing (DSP). In light of waste prevention, we propose and report on the experimental evidence of a proof-of-concept alternative process using TiO2 ceramic membrane contactors to ...