Maximizing Permeate Flux of IPA Dehydration via Optimizing Pervaporation Condition Through Central Composite Design (CCD)

Abstract

Abstract This paper reports a study on the operating condition of a pervaporation system for IPA dehydration. The two-condition study within this system is amount of water contents in binary feed mixture and operating temperature. The highest possible flux obtained from this study is at 12 wt% − 14 wt% of water in IPA and 61 ℃ – 65 ℃ operating temperature with permeate of 1.514 Kgm–2h–1 – 1.562 Kgm–2h–1. A permeate flux model for this system also been generated and validated with error margin less than 1% proving the genuine of the developed model and the ability of data prediction.