The green solvent: A critical perspective

N Winterton - Clean technologies and environmental policy, 2021 - Springer
Solvents are important in most industrial and domestic applications. The impact of solvent
losses and emissions drives efforts to minimise them or to avoid them completely. Since the …

Opportunities for bio-based solvents created as petrochemical and fuel products transition towards renewable resources

JH Clark, TJ Farmer, AJ Hunt, J Sherwood - International Journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
The global bio-based chemical market is growing in size and importance. Bio-based
solvents such as glycerol and 2-methyltetrahydrofuran are often discussed as important …

From academia to industry: Success criteria for upscaling nanofiltration membranes for water and solvent applications

A El Fadil, R Verbeke, M Kyburz, PEM Aerts… - Journal of Membrane …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanofiltration (NF) is an established membrane technology to purify aqueous streams. In
addition, there is a strong driving force to recycle and recover used solvents and dissolved …

One-step enhancement of solvent transport, stability and photocatalytic properties of graphene oxide/polyimide membranes with multifunctional cross-linkers

ML Liu, JL Guo, S Japip, TZ Jia, DD Shao… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The practical application of graphene oxide (GO)/polymer composite membranes requires
addressing the poor long-term stability caused by exfoliation of GO laminates from the …

Comparison of heterogeneous azeotropic distillation and energy-saving extractive distillation for separating the acetonitrile-water mixtures

J Qi, Y Li, J Xue, R Qiao, Z Zhang, Q Li - Separation and Purification …, 2020 - Elsevier
The separation of acetonitrile-water mixtures is a challenging and significant task due to the
presence of azeotrope, for which three separation alternatives are proposed, including an …

Decarbonizing Petrochemical Processes: Contribution and Perspectives of the Selective Oxidation of C1–C3 Paraffins

JS Valente, R Quintana-Solórzano… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this perspective, we present an overview of the most relevant advances in the selective
oxidation of light paraffins to contribute to the petrochemical decarbonization processes. An …

Exploring the potential of green chemistry in reversed-phase liquid chromatography: A review of sustainable solvents

O Kalisz, M Tobiszewski, A Nowaczyk… - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2024 - Elsevier
This article delves into the growing field of green analytical chemistry, focusing on
sustainable solvents for reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RP LC). RP LC is a widely …

Natural products containing the nitrile functional group and their biological activities

C Scotti, JW Barlow - Natural Product Communications, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The importance of nitriles as a key class of chemicals with applications across the sciences
is widely appreciated. The natural world is an underappreciated source of chemically …

Recent advances of producing biobased N-containing compounds via thermo-chemical conversion with ammonia process

L Xu, C Shi, Z He, H Zhang, M Chen, Z Fang… - Energy & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Biomass is regarded as an abundant feedstock for producing renewable biofuels and
chemicals. Thanks to their inherent chemical functionality and reactivity, biomass resources …

Energy-saving heat pump-assisted extractive-azeotropic dividing wall column with heat exchanger network for separating acetonitrile and water: A techno-economic …

J Zhai, X Chen, H Xie, X Sun, M Hu, M Dang… - Process Safety and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the present paper, a new extractive-azeotropic dividing wall column configuration is
designed to recover acetonitrile from wastewater instead of the conventional two-column …