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 Solvent extraction of alcohols from water solutions with fluorocarbon solvents

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Inventors: Levy, Sidney;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Evans; Joseph E.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm:

Certain fluorocarbon liquid materials are particularly effective solvents for the removal of lower alcohols from aqueous solutions, an extraction process. The fluorocarbons have low heats of vaporization. The specific fluorocarbons recited have boiling points near room temperature which permits the separation of alcohols from the aqueous solutions with much lower energy requirements than required by distillation. The solvent systems are intended for use in fermentation separations such as those recited in my co-pending application Ser. No. 06/076 250 and similar anaerobic and aerobic fermentations to produce alcohols and related fermentation products.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
The process for separating two to five carbon alcohols in aqueous solution comprising the steps of contacting said aqueous solution with a fluorocarbon solvent system to extract said alcohols from said aqueous phase, separating said alcohol rich fluorocarbon solvent phase from said aqueous phase, removing said fluorocarbon solvent from said solution of said alcohols in said fluorocarbon solvent by vacuum evaporation, compressing and cooling said fluorocarbon vapors to produce liquid fluorocarbon solvent and returning said fluorocarbon solvent to the said extraction process wherein the fluorocarbon solvents comprise singly or mixtures of one and two carbon fluorocarbons that boil at temperatures between -41.
degree.
C.
and +48.
degree.
C.
, Have vapor pressures at 21.
degree.
C.
between 10 PSIA and 165 PSIA, have heats of vaporization below 60 calories per gram, have a Kauri butanol number of 10 or greater, have a specific heat below 0.
28, have a surface tension below 20 dynes per centimeter, have a viscosity below 0.
5 centipoise, have a solubility below 1% in water, and have a solubility below 0.
2% of water in the fluorocarbon.
2.
The process according to claim 1 wherein the solvent comprise fluorocarbons containing one or two carbon atoms and from one to six fluorine atoms with the remainder being hydrogen, chlorine, and bromine, and admixtures of said fluorocarbons.
3.
The process according to claim 1 wherein the fluorocarbons are one or more of the group comprising monochloro difluoro methane, monochloro heptafluoro ethane, dichloro difluoro methane, dichloro tetrafluoro ethane, monofluoro dichloro methane, and monofluoro trichloro methane.
4.
The process according to claim 1 wherein the alcohol is butanol and the fluorocarbon solvent is monochloro trifluoro methane.
5.
The process according to claim 1 wherein the alcohol is ethanol and the fluorocarbon solvent is monochloro trifluoro methane.
6.
The process according to claim 1 wherein the alcohol is propanol and the fluorocarbon solvent is monochloro trifluoro methane



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