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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2008
Yu Huang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Richard W. Baker, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ramin Daniels, San Jose, CA (US);
Tiem Aldajani, San Jose, CA (US);
Jennifer H. Ly, San Jose, CA (US);
Franklin R. Alvarez, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Leland M. Vane, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Yu Huang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Richard W. Baker, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ramin Daniels, San Jose, CA (US);
Tiem Aldajani, San Jose, CA (US);
Jennifer H. Ly, San Jose, CA (US);
Franklin R. Alvarez, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Leland M. Vane, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Membrane Technology and Research, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
Processes for removing water from organic solvents, such as ethanol. The processes include distillation to form a rectified overhead vapor, compression of the rectified vapor, and treatment of the compressed vapor by two sequential membrane separation steps.