Abstract
AbstractThe ‘solution technique’ modification of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) using maleic acid was carried out with the help of triethanolamine/water catalysts. The resulting PVA membranes were characterized by differential scanning calorimetry, infrared spectroscopy, and tensile studies to investigate the reaction between PVA polymer and maleic acid. It was found that the resulting PVA membranes had two portions, branched and crosslinked, and there were no more branched than cross‐linked portions. For the pervaporation separation of the acetic acid‐water system, two reaction densities (Xcr = mole maleic acid per mole monomeric unit of PVA) of 0.05 and 0.1 were studied for the separation of the entire range of mixture compositions at 25° C. The separation factors of the Xcr = 0.05 modified PVA membranes were higher than those of the Xcr 0.1 modified ones and the highest separation factor of 7.80 was obtained at 70wt% water in the feed with the Xcr = 0.05 modified PVA membrane.
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