Affiliation:
1. Laboratoire de Génie Chimique, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INPT, UPS, 118 Route de Narbonne, CEDEX 4, 31062 Toulouse, France
Abstract
In this study, nanofiltration experiments using synthetic solutions containing acetate, butyrate, and lactate are carried out to assess the impact of the feed composition, i.e., feed concentration and feed proportions, on the separation factor of couples of solutes in binary and ternary solutions. In binary solutions, no influence of the solute proportions in the feed was pointed out, whatever the couple of solutes. The separation factor of acetate/butyrate and acetate/lactate was found to decrease with increasing feed concentration, while that of lactate/butyrate remained constant. The separation factors of acetate/lactate and lactate/butyrate were identical in ternary solutions compared to binary ones, showing no impact of the addition of the third solute. In ternary solutions, the presence of lactate decreased the separation factor of acetate/butyrate, but this decrease was not influenced by the proportion of lactate.
Funder
The National Research Agency under the “Investissements d’Avenir” program
the Occitanie Region within the framework of the “Défi-clé Hydrogène vert ProHyBio”