909 results about "Simulated moving bed" patented technology

Adsorbents and methods for the adsorptive separation of para-xylene from a mixture containing at least one other C₈ aromatic hydrocarbon (e.g., a mixture of ortho-xylene, meta-xylene, para-xylene, and ethylbenzene) are described. Suitable adsorbents comprise nano-size zeolite X having an average crystallite size of less than about 500 nanometers. The adsorbents provide both improved capacity and mass transfer, which is especially advantageous for improving productivity in low temperature, low cycle time adsorptive separation operations in a simulated moving bed mode.

Simultaneous synthesis and purification of a fatty acid monoester biodiesel fuel from a triacylglycerol feedstock is described. In an exemplary method, the triacylglycerol feedstock is continuously contacted with a catalytic chromatographic bed comprising a first (solid phase) basic catalyst through a first port of a simulated moving bed chromatographic apparatus. A monohydric alcohol and optional second (mobile phase) basic catalyst is continuously contacted with the catalytic chromatographic bed through a second port and pumped in a first direction toward the triacylglycerol feedstock to contact the triacylglycerol in a reaction zone of the catalytic chromatographic bed where the fatty acid monoester and glycerol coproduct are formed. The fatty acid monoester is removed from the reaction zone through a product port of the simulated moving bed apparatus. Segments of the catalytic chromatographic bed are incrementally moved in a second direction, opposite the first direction, and the glycerol is removed from a raffinate port located opposite the product port of the apparatus.

Disclosed is a mixer-distributor-collector apparatus for use between beds of solid particles in a fluid-solid contacting vessel. The apparatus includes a solids retaining screen, fluid deflector, passageway, fluid distributor, and flow manipulator. The flow manipulator is a device such as a honeycomb, porous solid, perforated plate, screen, or grid having an open area greater than the open area of the fluid distributor and is located below and spaced apart from the fluid distributor. The apparatus improves the fluid flow characteristics by minimizing or eliminating fluid velocity jets and/or other turbulence which can disturb the downstream particle bed. In an exemplary application, the invention finds use in simulated moving bed (SMB) adsorptive separation processes.

The present invention relates to agglomerated zeolitic adsorbents based on zeolite X with an Si/Al ratio such that 1.15<Si/Al≦1.5, at least 90% of the exchangeable cationic sites of the zeolite X of which are occupied either by barium ions alone or by barium ions and potassium ions whose Dubinin volume is greater than or equal to 0.240 cm³/g.

They are obtained by agglomerating zeolite powder with a binder, followed by the zeolitization of the binder, the exchange of the ions of the zeolite by barium ions (and potassium ions) and the activation of the adsorbents thus exchanged.

These adsorbents are particularly suited to the adsorption of the para-xylene present in C₈ aromatic hydrocarbon fractions in the liquid phase in processes of simulated moving bed type but also to the separation of sugars, polyhydric alcohols, cresols or substituted toluene isomers.

The invention discloses a new technology to manufacture ethandiol, which is characterized by the following: liquefying starch emulsion; saccharifying; filtering; decolouring; separating through simulated mobile chromatogramic separating system; obtaining DX 99-99.7% glucose slurry; evaporating DX value glucose slurry to 50% as dried material; adopting ruthenium or nickel as catalyst; proceeding hydrogenation reaction to obtain the sorbitol solution; hydrogenolyzing for certain time under one catalyst of Ru, Ni/Ru and Co/Re to produce compound with ethandiol, glycerin and propanediol; cooling multi-alcohol; sedimenting; filtering; separating; decolouring; separating ethandiol, glycerin and propanediol.

Disclosed is a process for extracting xylose and xylitol from a xylose mother liquor or a xylose digest, which comprises, using xylose hydrolysate or xylose mother liquid as the raw material, removing glucose through saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation, then imitating moving bed, using water as eluent, completely separating xylose from foreign matter such as arabinose, thus obtaining component containing rich xylose.

Product purity from or capacity of a simulated-moving-bed adsorptive separation process is increased by flushing the contents of the transfer line previously used to remove the raffinate stream away from the adsorbent chamber, preferably into the raffinate column used to separate desorbent from raffinate product. Preferably a stream from the adsorbent chamber at an intermediate point between the feed entry point and raffinate withdrawal is used as the flushing liquid. This flush step eliminates the passage of a quantity of the raffinate material into the adsorbent chamber in the transfer-line flush period or when the process conduit is subsequently used to charge the feed stream to the adsorbent chamber.

Adsorbents and methods for the adsorptive separation of para-xylene from a mixture containing at least one other C₈ aromatic hydrocarbon (e.g., a mixture of ortho-xylene, meta-xylene, para-xylene, and ethylbenzene) are described. Suitable binderless adsorbents (e.g., formulated with the substantial absence of an amorphous material that normally reduces selective pore volume), particularly those with a water content from about 3% to about 5.5% by weight, improve capacity and/or mass transfer. These properties are especially advantageous for improving productivity in low temperature, low cycle time adsorptive separation operations in a simulated moving bed mode.

The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the chromatographic purification of antibodies, such as monoclonal antibodies, employing improved simulated moving bed separation strategies and, in certain embodiments, Raman spectroscopy.

Provided are methods of separating an immunoreactive compound from at least one immaterial component, using a simulated moving bed ("SMB") system and a SMB apparatus for use in these methods. Also provided are purified immunoreactive compounds prepared using the SMB methods and apparatus and methods of treatment with the purified immunoreactive compounds.

The invention relates to a clean technique for co-producing xylose, xylitol and arabinose from agricultural and forestal waste, belonging to the field of utilization of agricultural and forestal waste. The technique comprises the following steps: pretreating and preprocessing the raw material, and hydrolyzing in a thermophilic digestion mode to prepare a hemicellulose hydrolysate; after centrifugalizing to remove solid residues, carrying out TiO2-loaded activated carbon photocatalysis or ion exchange resin decolorization and detoxification treatment on the hydrolysate; carrying out MVR (mechanical vapor recompression) concentration treatment and gradient-cooling crystallization to obtain a xylose product and a xylose mother solution; fermenting L-arabinose unconverted xylitol fermentationhigh-yield strain xylitol by using the xylose mother solution as the medium to produce the xylitol; centrifugalizing to remove thalli, and carrying out decolorization and desalting treatment by membrane-process or resin adsorption; separating by using a simulated moving bed or chromatographic separation technology to obtain a xylitol phase and an L-arabinose phase; and carrying out MVR or vacuum concentration treatment on the two phases, and crystallizing in a gradient programmed cooling mode to respectively obtaining a xylitol product and an L-arabinose product, wherein the two mother solutions can be recycled.

Distributed valve simulated moving beds are described in which junctions located between successive columns interrupt the flow of process fluid between columns, and either transmit the process fluid through a zone bypass to a succeeding column within the same zone or, if the junction is located between zones, direct the process fluid to an input/output line that is dedicated to the particular zone that immediately follows the junction. At each step of the SMB's operation, the distribution of flows in each junction is modulated to accomplish movement of ports consistent with the SMB's design. The described system can be employed to accomplish moving ports chromatography. Further described are simulated moving beds that contain one or more decoupled on-line regeneration zones. The regeneration zone is decoupled from the separation zones in the sense that it observes a step time (a “regeneration interval”) that is different than the step time observed by the separation zones of the SMB. Because the regeneration zone is “on-line,” the SMB need not be stopped to remove columns for regeneration. Because the regeneration zone is decoupled from the separation zones, the column can stay in the regeneration zone as long as needed to accomplish the regeneration, regardless of the step time observed by the SMB.

The present invention provides devices and methods for micro-scale simulated moving bed chromatography (SMB) for continuous preparation of analytic quantities of highly pure fractions of target molecules. The present apparatus and method of the invention is adapted in a preferred embodiment to separations by affinity chromatography involving three discontinuous liquid flow loops. An alternative embodiment of affinity chromatography utilizes standard SMB operating under isocratic conditions.

The invention concerns a simulated moving bed adsorption separation device comprising a limited number of valves. According to the invention, the device comprises a column with a plurality of sectors Sk with 2 superimposed plates Pi with a single distribution network, each sector Sk comprising an external principal bypass line Lk connected to each plate Pi of Sk via a plate valve V_i. Each line Lk comprises a flow limitation means and is connected to each of the fluid networks via a single valve.

Further, the connectors of lines Lk onto the column are offset by at most 20° inside Sk to limit the volume of lines Lk, and are offset by a mean angle in the range 70° to 110° between two neighbouring sectors Sk and Sk+1 so as not to weaken the column mechanically. The plates preferably comprise panels DMEi,j with parallel segments the direction of which varies from plate to plate or per group of 2 plates.

The invention also concerns a separation process using said device, in particular to separate para-xylene or meta-xylene from an aromatic C8 cut.