Concentrating aqueous volatile fatty acid salt solutions using a tertiary amine mixture /

amine allowing for convenient solvent regeneration of

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaskin, David J.
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1997.
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Summary:amine allowing for convenient solvent regeneration of
amines allows for higher pH levels in the broth
amount of lime. The high pH precipitate protein which
and sodium acetate solutions. This thesis extends the
animal feed. Through 15 extraction runs, no
aqueous phase. The distribution coefficients generally
available to convert the concentrated salts into other
been concentrated, a variety of techniques are
broth was adjusted to pH 11.5 by adding a small
butyrate. Amine extraction may be used to selectively
butyrate. Compared to competing technologies that
can be recycled to the fermentor or collected for
concentrating calcium acetate, propionate, and
Davison et al., 1966, 1967). Once the acid salts have
degradation of the amine was observed.
extract undissociated acids from a volatile fatty acid
extract water from low-concentration calcium acetate
extraction. Prior to extraction, the fermentation
fermentation broth to determine whether possible
fermentation broth, extracting water with tertiary
has a high affinity for water. By raising the
Lee (1993) has shown that tertiary amines are able to hics.
mixture or single amine for extracting water at 40[]C,
mixture was used to extract water from actual
previous work to include calcium propionate and
products such as ketones, alcohols, and acids. At low
remove water from a fermentation broth thus
resulting in greater productivity. Specifically,
surfactants in the broth interfere with the
temperature 20 to 25[]C, the water separates from the
temperatures, the low-molecular-weight amine mixture
the aliphatic group increases in size. The amine
the amine. The distribution coefficients, [] , measure
the proposed fermentation temperature (Lee, 1993;
the selectivity of concentrating calcium salts in the
triethylamine and N,N-diethyl-methylamine in a 1:2
vary as follows: [] thus, there is less selectivity as
volumetric mixture are superior to any other examined
Item Description:"Major subject: Chemical Engineering".
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Physical Description:xiv, 127 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-94).