Hexane, the common solvent for extraction of edible oils from seeds is no more considered safe due to the presence of solvent in oil and also solvent vapour, a hazardous air pollutant. We have carried out the experiments with bahera (Terminalia bellerica Roxb) and flax seed (Linum usitatissimum ) oil as these oils are highly used in food for their nutraceutical values. The extraction of edible ...

Dehydration of ethanol via adsorption on 3Å molecular sieves has recently been increasing in application in industry as an alternative to the conventional separation techniques for breaking the ethanol-water azeotrope. Over the past 20 years, Pressure-Vacuum Swing Adsorption (PSA) processes have gained increasing commercial acceptance as an energy-efficient separation technique. A general purpo...

R-502 has been the primary refrigerant for low temperature commercial refrigeration applications for many years. The impending phase-out of CFCs dictates its elimination in the very near future. The identification of alternative(s) for R-502 therefore becomes a high priority. This paper addresses the factors to be evaluated in selecting the best replacement and identifies an azeotropic mixture ...

Abstract The accurate calculations of adsorption equilibrium for multicomponent gas systems are of great importance in many applications. In this paper, five two-dimensional equations of state 2D-EOS, i.e. Van der Waals, Eyring, Zhou-Ghasem-Robinson, Soave-Redlich-Kwong and Peng-Robinson, were examined to find out their abilities to predict adsorption equilibrium for pure and multi-component ga...

1,3-Butadiene, BD is produced from C4-cut by extractive distillation. The separation of 1,3-Butadiene from C4-cut is not possible through the conventional distillation processes, because several mixtures have consisted of close boiling points constituents and make azeotrope. The BASF extraction distillation process in BD unit of Jam and Amirkabir Petrochemical Company improves the relative vola...