Recovery of Carboxylic acids from anaerobic fermented broth through ionic exchange processes.

The recovery of Carboxylic acids were based on two particular objective: the study of the efficiency of a cation exchange resin, used in order to reduce the pH of the actual effluent, considering it is necessary to have a low pH for the anion exchange resin to be able to adsorb the acids from the effluent, and the preliminary studies perfomerd on the anion exchange resin, at various flow rates and both mode of operation, expanded and packed bed mode, using a simulated effluent, were the carboxylic acids were represented by just acetic acid, as the target molecule.