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Record W2062518811 · doi:10.1081/ss-100107762

SEPARATION OF METHANOL AND ISOPENTANE BY PERVAPORATION AND TAME PRODUCTION APPLICATION

2001· article· en· W2062518811 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueSeparation Science and Technology · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMembrane Separation and Gas Transport
Canadian institutionsNova Chemicals (Canada)National Research Council Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIsopentaneChemistryMethanolPervaporationMembraneAzeotropeChemical engineeringPermeationSelectivityChromatographyOrganic chemistryDistillationCatalysis

Abstract

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Separation of methanol (MeOH) and isopentane (iC5) is a problematic process in the production of tertiary-amyle methyl ether (TAME). The removal of methanol from the product stream and its subsequent recycling to the reactor requires breakage of its azeotrope with iC5. While the conventional separation processes are costly and cumbersome, pervaporation offers a simple and inexpensive alternative to traditional techniques. In the present study, pervaporation was used to examine the performance of two commercial rubbery membranes as well as Nafion-170 to separate methanol and isopentane. The results indicate that all three membranes were highly selective and permeable toward methanol. Both the selectivity and permeability were strongly feed-composition dependent. Selectivity decreased and permeability increased as methanol concentration in the feed increased. With few exceptions, methanol was collected at 95% to 99.8% purity from the permeate side at a wide range of feed compositions varying from 1% to 25% methanol. Average selectivities of 170 to 370, and fluxes up to 2.93 kg/m2·h were observed. We also found that preconditioning of the membranes enhances their performances.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.084
Threshold uncertainty score0.399

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.273
Teacher spread0.265 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it