Dehydration of glycerin solution using pervaporation: HybSi and polydimethylsiloxane membranes
Abstract(#br)The dehydration of glycerin solution is an important step in glycerin purification process. In present work, pervaporative dehydration of glycerin solution was studied using HybSi and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) pervaporation membranes. The effects of physical property of membrane, operating parameters and glycerin concentrations on the membrane permeate flux and selectivity were examined. The present studies showed that hydrophilic HybSi membrane could provide higher permeate flux as compared to hydrophobic PDMS membrane under an identical operating condition.