Green and sustainable solvents in chemical processes

CJ Clarke, WC Tu, O Levers, A Brohl… - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Sustainable solvents are a topic of growing interest in both the research community and the
chemical industry due to a growing awareness of the impact of solvents on pollution, energy …

Toward the proactive design of sustainable chemicals: Ionic liquids as a prime example

S Beil, M Markiewicz, CS Pereira, P Stepnowski… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The tailorable and often unique properties of ionic liquids (ILs) drive their implementation
into a broad variety of seminal technologies. The modular design of ILs allows in this context …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic metabolism: metabolic engineering meets enzyme design

TJ Erb, PR Jones, A Bar-Even - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Multiple levels of metabolic engineering can be defined, from 'copy and paste'to
various forms of 'synthetic metabolism'.•The biochemical solution space for 'synthetic …

Computer-aided molecular design of ionic liquids as advanced process media: a review from fundamentals to applications

Z Song, J Chen, J Cheng, G Chen, Z Qi - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The unique physicochemical properties, flexible structural tunability, and giant chemical
space of ionic liquids (ILs) provide them a great opportunity to match different target …

Life cycle assessment of carbon capture and storage/utilization: From current state to future research directions and opportunities

TT da Cruz, JAP Balestieri, JM de Toledo Silva… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change has mobilized the
whole world towards finding technologies and creating public policies aimed at a …

Ionic liquids for renewable thermal energy storage–a perspective

SL Piper, M Kar, DR MacFarlane, K Matuszek… - Green …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermal energy storage systems utilising phase change materials have the potential to
overcome the intermittency issues associated with most renewable energy sources …

Upscaling methods used in ex ante life cycle assessment of emerging technologies: a review

N Tsoy, B Steubing, C van der Giesen… - The International Journal …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose The objective of this paper was to provide LCA practitioners with recommendations
and a framework for upscaling emerging technologies by reviewing upscaling methods …

Economic analysis and life cycle environmental assessment of imidazolium-based ionic liquids for separation of the methanol/dimethyl carbonate azeotrope

C Guo, X Liu, F Wang, Y Cao, S Zheng… - … Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The environmental impacts of extractive distillation via different types of ionic liquids (ILs)
have not been investigated in the context of the entire life cycle. Herein, comprehensive …

State-of-the-art process simulations and techno-economic assessments of ionic liquid-based biogas upgrading techniques: Challenges and prospects

J Haider, MA Qyyum, A Riaz, A Naquash, B Kazmi… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Biogas has emerged as an alternative renewable fuel to natural gas. However, the presence
of trace contaminants and large quantities of CO 2 in biogas necessitates its purification and …

New Solvents for CO2 and H2S Removal from Gaseous Streams

LA Pellegrini, M Gilardi, F Giudici, E Spatolisano - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Acid gas removal from gaseous streams such as flue gas, natural gas and biogas is mainly
performed by chemical absorption with amines, but the process is highly energy intensive …