Adsorption
5.10 Conclusions
The success of biorefineries will be a strong function of how the industry manages its costs on a large scale.
The separation and purification processes in the biorefinery currently account for much of the product and operating cost. It is critical that technical innovations in these processes are developed and implemented for the broader sustainable green industries to be a success.
This chapter has presented the role of adsorption technology as a candidate for solving some of these challenges. The state of this technology was described by presenting the underpinning science of adsorp-tion and its applicaadsorp-tion in developing engineering soluadsorp-tions. This was then illustrated with a detailed case study of the recovery of 1-butanol from an acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation broth using temperature-swing adsorption (TSA) technology. Academic innovation and advances in adsorption are ongoing but the challenge for adsorption in biorefineries still remains to make the process commercially viable. This challenge will be addressed by future research efforts and some of the potential options have been highlighted in the chapter. This chapter should allow readers to make a more knowledgeable decision on the applicability of adsorption in their specific bioseparation problems.
Acknowledgement
I would like to thank Dr. Jose Bravo, the chief scientist, Royal Dutch Shell, for his guidance and reviewing my work. I would like to thank Dr. Girish Rao, for his help in compiling this chapter. I am most grateful to my ever respectful well wisher Prof. P.V. Krishnan who taught me real character and how to use our intelligence for everyone’s real welfare. Finally I would like to thank my wife, Malliga, for her support throughout this project.
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