Mass transport of diazomethane across Teflon AF2400 membrane for scale-up development
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Author(s)
Horvath-Gerber, Filip
Hii, King Kuok Mimi
Holtze, Christian
Deublein, Eleonore Jeanne Camille
Hellgardt, Klaus
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Diazomethane is an attractive C1 building block in organic chemistry, but its hazardous nature presents scale-up challenges to this date. The use of a Teflon AF2400 membrane, most commonly in a tube-in-tube reactor setup, is the current state-of-the-art methodology for inherently safer laboratory-scale generation, separation, and consumption of anhydrous diazomethane. For the successful scale-up of this membrane process, the key mass transfer coefficient of the AF2400 membrane, its permeability for diazomethane, was investigated. We report in this contribution a novel methodology to determine diazomethane permeability for the rational scale-up of membrane processes for the safe handling of diazomethane. Missing physical properties of diazomethane were established, and the full mass balance of in situ-generated diazomethane within the tube-in-tube reactor was experimentally validated. A numerical model of the membrane reactor system in combination with experimental data yielded a permeability value of 414 barrer. This result enables scale-up development of the laboratory membrane reactor toward production-scale systems.
Date Issued
2023-05
Date Acceptance
2023-05-01
Citation
Organic Process Research and Development, 2023, 27 (5), pp.899-909
ISSN
1520-586X
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Start Page
899
End Page
909
Journal / Book Title
Organic Process Research and Development
Volume
27
Issue
5
Copyright Statement
© 2023 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Subjects
anhydrous diazomethane
Chemistry
Chemistry, Applied
Chemistry, Organic
GENERATION
HYDROLYSIS
mass balance
membrane separation
permeability
Physical Sciences
REACTOR
Science & Technology
SEPARATION
Teflon AF2400
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2023-05-08