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High efficiency ester condensation using hydrophobic zeolite membranes

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We successfully developed zeolite membranes with hydrophilic character, by choosing appropriate zeolites in terms of hydrophilicity and high acid tolerance. We evaluated thus developed membranes by their pervaporation (PV) performance, dehydration from acidic organic solvent. The zeolite membranes we developed, based on merlinoite (MER), chabazite (CHA) or phillipsite (PHI), are shown to exhibit stable dehydration performance, respectively. We successfully applied the membranes to the selective removal of water in an ester condensation reaction starting from a stoichiometric mixture of a carboxylic acid and an alcohol. The availability of pervaporation-assisted ester condensation reaction was validated by various kinds of combinations of carboxylic acid and alcohols, which implies the general availability of pervaporation-assisted process intensification by zeolite membranes.

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  1. Research Center for Compact Chemical Process, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Sendai, Miyagi, 983-8551, Japan

    Tomoya Inoue, Yuta Nemoto, Takako Nagase, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Koichi Sato, Masateru Nishioka, Satoshi Hamakawa & Fujio Mizukami

  2. College of Engineering, Nihon University, Kohriyama, Fukushima, Japan

    Yuta Nemoto, Yoshimichi Kiyozumi & Toshikazu Nishide

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Inoue, T., Nemoto, Y., Nagase, T. et al. High efficiency ester condensation using hydrophobic zeolite membranes. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 25, 437–442 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-008-0074-6

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