Process for separating ethyl tert-butyl ether and ethanol

Details Process for separating ethyl tert-butyl ether and ethanol Process for separating ethyl tert-butyl ether and ethanol

1992-11-12

1994-09-20

Manoharan, Virginia

Distillation: processes, separatory

Distilling to separate or remove only water

From organic compound

203 19, 203 46, 203 63, 203 75, 203 76, 203 77, 203 78, 203 79, 203 80, 203 99, 203DIG9, 203DIG13, 203DIG19, 568913, 568916, 568918, B01D 334

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053486242

ABSTRACT:
For separating ETBE and ethanol the following principal stages are employed:
(1) Extraction of ethanol by water, the raffinate being ETBE saturated in water and the extract an ethanol/water mixture containing a small proportion of ETBE;
(2) Concentration of the above mixture, the distillate being a mixture close to the ethanol/water azeotrope in composition and containing a very small proportion of ETBE;
(3) Heteroazeotropic distillation of this distillate in two coupled columns with an overhead decanter, this distillation using ETBE as azeotroping agent; the residue of the first column being ethanol which is ca. 99% by mole and the residue of the second column being practically pure water, this water and the water recovered during the concentration stage being used as extraction solvent in stage (1).
Stage (3) may be an ethanol dehydration unit using ETBE as dehydrating agent.

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