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Fusel Oil Separation of Amyl Alcohol from Fusel Oil

#1 User is offline   Samir Gupta 

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Posted 10 January 2006 - 05:31 AM

Fusel oil is poduced as a by product in cane molasses based fermentation plant and subsequent recovery of Rectified Spirit or Industrial Alcohol through distillation.
The fusel oul contains mainly Amyl Alcohol (70-75%) and balance higher alcohols.
Can somebody help in separating amyl alcohol from the fusel oil. The qty of fusel oil is approximately 1000 kg/hr.
Thanks in advance.
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#2 User is offline   Samir Gupta 

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Posted 13 January 2006 - 04:12 AM

Dear Mr Montemayor
I thought you would be able to atleast give me some clue about the subject. I am still waiting for a reply...

Warm regards and thanks in advance
Samir
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Posted 12 April 2006 - 07:41 AM

QUOTE (Samir Gupta @ Jan 13 2006, 04:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Dear Mr Montemayor
I thought you would be able to atleast give me some clue about the subject. I am still waiting for a reply...

Warm regards and thanks in advance
Samir


Depending on your distillation equipment, you should be able to fraction out the Amyl alcohol through a refinement in how you process your distillate. In order to fraction out the Amyl (2-Methel-1-Butanol) from the Isoamyl, propanol and other fusels, you need to have many plates (40 plus) with the ability to draw off fractions at each specific plates. If you do not have this ability, try and separate the fractions by controlling the output alcohol percentage to best match the boiling points of your desired fractions. Use this study to help dial in what your median temp. and subsequent alcohol percentage draw off of the back end is to achieve your desired lower Amyl levels. IE. you might have to draw off a little slower or run your condensor a little more to help fraction in the column. Just copy and paste this link below. The data in Table 1 and 2 should be of some help for this.

http://www.chemeng.t...aper/active.doc
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Posted 12 March 2007 - 02:27 AM

I am also looking for Extractive separation methods for separating Amyl alcohol from fusel oil.
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