unclesyd,
I'd be interested to know more about your approach to reducing energy requirements and dehydration through low-boiling azeotropes. Why do you use azeotropes as opposed to non-azeotropes?
Is your process liquid-phase dehydration followed by distillation?
Ken,
Yes, my real problem is drying the hydrated solid. I want to try and do that by introducing a "dry" stream with a low partial pressure of H2O into which the water can desorb. I can't operate at reduced pressure.
I was considering this method so I can operate at lower temperatures. The...
Montemayor,
Thanks for your post.
Let me clarify further. The process that I am considering is to replace a process that cycles water. The process being replaced operates at a relatively high temperature (250+ Farenheit), which is necessary to release the water from the bound state (condensed...
I'm working on an idea that involves the use of an acetone/water binary mixture as a working substance.
Here is some background:
The working substance (acetone/water - low H2O concentration <5%) picks up water in a subsequent step, and is redirected to a distillation step where the water is...
