Separation is an important industrial step with critical roles in the chemical, petrochemical,
pharmaceutical, and nuclear industries, as well as in many other fields. Although much …

Acid mine drainage (AMD) poses severe environmental pollution problems due to its high
acidity, toxic metals and sulphate content. Current methods to tackle the problem are …

Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising alternative thermal-based membrane process that
can achieve high-quality freshwater across various impaired water sources. However, the …

In the past decades, the demand for platinum group metals (PGMs) has increased rapidly in
various applications such as electronics, chemical engineering, biomedical devices, and …

The process of recovering valuable materials from lithium-ion batteries is important because
of the economic and environmental problems associated with these batteries. In this study, a …

Undoubtedly, ionic liquids (ILs) belong to the most investigated solvent systems in the last
two decades not only in the field of liquid–liquid extraction and separation chemistry of …

A split-anion solvent extraction process was developed for the separation of precious metal
ions Au (III), Pt (IV), Pd (II) and Rh (III) from aqueous chloride media using water-saturated …

Ionic liquids (ILs), also termed “green” and “designer” solvents, have been proposed as
promising solvents for diverse applications. This review focused on the improvements …

Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is the fastest growing type of waste
globally and is an important challenge due to its heterogeneity, intrinsic toxicity and potential …

Rare earth metals (REMs), especially neodymium, samarium and europium are termed as
critical metals since their supply is experiencing shortfall due to sudden rise in demand …