Membranes Based on Polyalkylmethylsiloxanes for Selective Removal of C5 and C6 Alcohol from Water
Removal oxygenates from wastewater is an important problem of lots of chemical industry. At last decade pervaporation makes a good competitive ability to traditional water-oxygenates separation methods. The goal of this work is to find a new generation of membrane material that can provide increased selectivity oxygenate separation in an example of 1-pentanol and 1-hexanol from the water. In this work were studied following polymers: polyhexylmethylsiloxane, polyheptylmethylsiloxane, and polyoctylmethylsiloxane in comparison with the material, which is wildly used in hydrophobic pervaporation – polydimethylsiloxane. The sorption properties of these polymers were studied and direct correlation sorption and pervaporation properties were demonstrated. It was found that polyheptylmethylsiloxane has higher selectivity than other study polymers: 22 – hexanol/water, 7.3 – pentanol/water.