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  title info:
    title: Conversion of carboxylate salts to carboxylic acids via reactive distillation
  name:
    name part: Williamson, Shelly Ann.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: xi, 86 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: The purpose of this study is to convert carboxylate salts (e.g. calcium acetate, propionate, and butyrate) into carboxylic acids (e.g., acetic, propionic, and butyric acids). The carboxylate salts can be produced from wastes, such as paper fines, municipal solid wastes, sewage sludge, and industrial biosludge. Using a proprietary technology owned by Texas A&M University the wastes are first treated with lime to enhance reactivity. Then they are converted to calcium carboxylate salts using a mixed culture of microorganisms derived from cattle rumen or anaerobic waste treatment facilities. The paper fines and municipal solid waste provide energy, whereas the industrial biosludge and sewage sludge provide nutrients for the microorganisms. The calcium carboxylate salts are concentrated and reacted with a low-molecular-weight tertiary amine and carbon dioxide to precipitate calcium carbonate. In a distillation column, the low-molecular-weight amine carboxylate reacts with a high-molecular-weight tertiary amine allowing the low-molecular-weight amine to be recovered from the top of the column. The resulting high-molecular-weight amine carboxylate is converted to amine and carboxylic acid in a reactive distillation column. This project focuses on the conversion of the carboxylate salts produced via fermentation into their corresponding acids via reactive distillation. The primary objective is to determine the optimal operating conditions of the distillation. A secondary objective is to optimize the precipitation step in the recovery process.
  note: by Shelly Ann Williamson.
  note: "Major subject: Chemical Engineering".
  note: Vita.
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.S. Texas A&M University 2000.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 40-41).
  subject:
    topic: Major chemical engineering
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2000-THESIS-W3543
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2000-THESIS-W3543
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 011105
    record change date: 20220103113919.0
    record identifier: in00001624344