Isopropyl alcohol

Background technology

Isopropyl alcohol is an important chemical product and raw material, mainly used in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, plastics, spices, coatings, etc. Isopropyl alcohol is widely used as a solvent or extractant in the pharmaceutical industry. Isopropyl alcohol can form an azeotrope with water (water content 12.6wt%). The traditional production and recovery of isopropyl alcohol use azeotropic distillation and extraction processes, which have high energy consumption and serious pollution. Molecular sieve adsorption dehydration cannot be used in industry due to high water content. Pervaporation technology can significantly improve the separation efficiency and reduce the energy consumption of the process.

Technical comparison

Comparison of different separation processes

Production process

Energy consumption

Equipment cost

Operational complexity

benzene azeotropic distillation

High

High

Complicated

membrane dehydration

Low

Low

Simple

extractive distillation

High

Higher

Complicated

 

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