With the global biodiesel production growing as never seen before, encouraged by
government policies, fiscal incentives, and emissions laws to control air pollution, there has …

This book investigates the development of sorption enhanced reaction processes (SERPs)
with detailed modelling and simulation, design and operation of units. SERPs are processes …

Abstract The Particles Swarm Optimization (PSO) is an optimization technique that has been
gaining attention in the last years. In this work, the PSO method is applied to optimize the …

The simulated moving bed reactor (SMBR) is a sorption-enhanced reactive technology that
has been successfully applied to the synthesis of several organic compounds, due to its …

Butyl Acrylate is one of the most important acrylic monomers presenting great potential for
several industrial applications mainly in surface coating field. Hence, the global butyl …

Because reactive distillation (RD) is a multi-variable, strongly coupled nonlinear system,
side reactions and changes in catalytic packing geometry may significantly affect the …

Pervaporation-based hybrid processes have been investigated to overcome the drawbacks
of equilibrium-limited reactions. Pervaporation processes are strongly recommended for …

With the unprecedent global biodiesel production growth, massive amounts of crude
glycerol have been generated as a byproduct of this industry. Solketal, the reaction product …

This work investigates a novel synthesis route of n-Propyl Propionate using a Simulated
Moving Bed Reactor (SMBR) packed with Amberlyst 46 resin. Simultaneously, it is …

A combined simulated moving bed (SMB) and distillation separation scheme is developed to
recover 2, 3‐butanediol (BDO) from a dilute fermentation broth. The scheme was integrated …