Table 2.

Hydrophobic membranes tested for the ethanol recovery by PV.

Adapted from Castro-Muñoz et al. (2018c)

Feed concentration	Polymeric membrane	Manufacture	Operating conditions	Total flux values (kg/m2/h)	Selectivity (separation factor)	References
5 wt% ethanol	PEBA	Homemade	40 °C Vacuum pressure 1.5 mbar.	0.70	3.0	Gu et al. (2009)
10 wt% ethanol	PDMS	Homemade	40 °C Vacuum pressure 13 mbar.	0.50	5.0	Huang et al. (2009)
10 wt% ethanol	PTMSP	Homemade	50 °C Vacuum pressure 0.04 mbar.	3.5	12	Claes et al. (2010)
10 wt% ethanol	Pervatech PDMS	Pervatech BV (The Netherlands)	50 °C Vacuum pressure 0.04 mbar.	3.3	6
10 wt% ethanol	PERVAP 4060	Sulzer ChemTech (Switzerland)	50 °C Vacuum pressure 0.04 mbar.	1.9	7
5 wt% ethanol	Pebax	Homemade	25 °C Vacuum pressure 0 bar.	0.080	2.5	Le et al. (2011)
1 wt% butanol 0.5 wt% acetone 0.15 wt% ethanol	PDMS	Homemade	50 °C Vacuum pressure 2.8 mbar.	0.275	10	Zhou et al. (2011)
5 wt% ethanol	Cross-linked PDMS	Homemade	40 °C	0.080	8.5	Zhan et al. (2012)
5 wt% ethanol	PDMS	Homemade	60° Vacuum pressure 0 bar	0.060	15	Sun et al. (2013)
4 wt% ethanol	PDMS	Homemade	25 °C Vacuum pressure 20 mbar	0.100	8	Yadav et al. (2013)
5 wt% ethanol	PDMS	Homemade	50 °C Vacuum pressure 330 mbar	0.800	5	Li et al. (2014)
5 wt% ethanol	PDMS	Homemade	50 °C Vacuum pressure 2 mbar	0.090	5	Liu et al. (2015)
5 wt% ethanol	PDMS	Homemade	70 °C Vacuum pressure 10.1 mbar	1.5	7.5	Zhang et al. (2015)
5 wt% ethanol	Butyl acrylate-styrene copolymer	Homemade	30 °C Vacuum pressure 1.3 mbar	0.300	16	Samanta and Ray (2015)
10 wt% ethanol	PBZ	Homemade	70 °C Vacuum pressure 13 mbar	0.035	10,000	Chuntanalerg et al. (2016)
6 wt% ethanol	PDMS	Homemade	40 °C Vacuum pressure < 1 mbar	0.900	8.7	Naik et al. (2016a, b)
6% wt% ethanol	PDMS	Homemade	40 °C Vacuum pressure < 1 mbar	0.35	8	Naik et al. (2016a, b)
3 wt% ethanol	PDMS	Homemade	30 °C Vacuum pressure 8–10 mbar	0.90	2.0	Mohammadi et al. (2005)