Journal of Applied Sciences1812-56541812-5662Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/jas.2014.1289.1293RaoV.V. Basava KumarP. Shiva SailuCh. RaoS. Ram Mohan 1220141412In many industrial processes, the intelligent integration
of chemical reactions and separation in one unit (reactive distillation) process
was found to be superior to conventional reactor-separator sequences with respect
to their economic properties and environmental compatibility. On the other hand,
lactic acid is potentially an important raw material for biodegradable polymers
and its recovery from aqueous solution is highly difficult. The lactic acid
can be recovered by using reactive distillation. In this study, the lactic acid
recovery was carried out by reactive distillation using n-butanol as reactive
entrainer. The effect of initial concentration, mole ratio and catalyst weight
on removal of water from aqueous lactic acid solution were studied and optimum
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