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       atmospheric distillation and extractive  of Ag tz  to improve processability for  Process design framework for   from the plate.” Elevated crystallization  types of polymers/resins have been   Phosphogypsum (PG)
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       distillation in several innovative inten-  selective olefin adsorption and thus   inorganic salt recovery using   temp. of 70 C was beneficial. [Org.  considered with grafting of boronates.
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       sifi ed downstream processes.”     highly loaded with very low agglomerate   antisolvent crystallization       proc.Res.Dev., 2023, DOI:10.1002/acs.  Comparison has been made with the  Role of additives : Modifi ed
                                         degree membranes can be synthesized.   (ASC)                                oprd.3C00263].                    state-of-the-art chromatographic sepa- hemihydrate (HH) PG
       This strategy allowed over 99.2% of   This gave a selectivity of 39 for C H /                                                                   ration over Ca  ion exchange resins.  morphology and enhanced
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       isopropanol and 100% of acetone to be   C H  mixtures with permeability rates of                              Membrane Distillation (MD) :      [GreenChem.,  2023, DOI:10.1039/  fi ltration performance of
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       recovered with high purity products at   99. A wide range of temp. and pressure   P. Sahu et al have suggested that ASC   How to make it greener  D3GC04049F].                    wet-process phosphoric acid
       99.8 wt%. Energy requirements were   can be tolerated and have long-term   can be an alternative separation method   Gontrarek-Castro and Castro-Munoz
       reduced through advanced heat pumping   stability. [Angew.Chem.Intl.Ed., 2023,   against evaporating or cooling crystalli-  have referred to MD as a promising   A microporous poly(arylene   X. Huo  et al have emphasized that
       (mechanical vapour recompression) and   DOI:10.1002/anie.20231609z].  zation for salt recovery from aq. salt   alternative to conventional seawater   ether) platform for mem-    the normal morphology of HH PG is
       heat integration techniques. This work                             solutions. This paper has aimed to deve-   desalination (This column has covered   brane-based gas             commonly needle-like due to strong
       supports sustainable industrial fermenta-  Assessment of the new   lop a methodical framework combining       some papers on MD).               separation                        acidic crystallization environment and
       tion. This also reduced the requirements   kinetically limited LDF   solubility behaviour, phase balance, anti-                                                                   this is unfavourable for fi ltrations. In
       of fresh water. [J.Chem.Technol.Biotech-  model for diffusion-limited   solvent selection and solvent recovery.   These authors have discussed how to   S. Gou et al have referred to energy  a clever way additives were added to
       nol.,2023, DOI:10.1002/jctl.7576].                                 This was used to separate Na SO from       make MD greener as non-biodegradable
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                                         separation by PSA                NaCl. Technoeconomic feasibility is        polymers and toxic solvents are involved   effi cient membrane-based process for  get a large aspect ratio to be varied to
       Simulation and experimental                                        reported. This work is expected to guide   besides fl uoroalkylsilanes are involved.   gas separation. Microporous organic  realize higher filtration. D-Glucitol
                                                                                                                                                       polymers (MOPs) combine benefits  (DG) reduces aspect ratio from 2.076 to
       study of solid-liquid extraction   S.A. Adeguniu et al have assessed the  utility of ASC. [ACSSustainableChem.  Further high amount of wastewater is   for gas sieving and solution process-  1.583 and leads to a lower bulk density
                                         new kinetically limited linear driving  Eng., 2023, DOI:ACS.10.1021/acssus-
       of coal tar residue (CTR)         force (KLLDF) model against the  chemeng.3C05243].                          generated from membrane fabrication   ability. Synthesis of title membranes is  and a larger porosity of the formed fi lter
       based on different extractants    traditional LDF model for predicting                                                                          reported which includes incorporation  cake. [ACS Omega, 2023, DOI:10.1021/
                                         the behaviour of diffusion-limited sepa-  Experimental and molecular                                          of functionalities; separations of CO /  acsomega.3C08259].
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       B. Yang  et al have worked on the hazard-  ration by PSA. The kinetic separation                                                                CH  and (H S+CO  /CH ) are convered.
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       ous CTR which contains toxic polycyclic                            insights on the separation                                                   [Angew. Chem.Intl.Ed., DOI:10.1002/  Revealing mechanism of
       aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs). This can                              of indole from wash oil by                                                   anie.202315611].                  hemihydrate – dihydrate PG
       be processed into high-value-added fuels                           tetraethylammonium – based                                                                                     transformation and minimizing
       and chemicals. Ethyl acetate, ethanol and                          ionic liquids (ILs)                                                          New supercritical method          phosphorous loss in wet process
       n-hexane were chosen as extractants and                                                                                                         to capture CO  from N             phosphoric acid (PA)
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       mass transfer studies were carried out.                            W. Zhang et al have worked on the title                                      and H  gas mixture in NH /
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       n-Hexane extracted the highest content                             system. The distribution coeffi cient and   processes. There is a need to integrate   NH CONH  production plants  X. Huo et al have studied the infl uence of
       of aliphatic hydrocarbons; ethyl acetate  of 85 vol% CH  +15 vol% CO  using   selectivity of 304 kinds of ILs were   MD systems with low-grade waste heat.   2  2                 temp., H SO  content, and P O  content
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       extracted the highest content of oxyge-  MSC 3K-172 carbon molecular sieve   predicted. The IL could be recycled   These authors have reviewed the above   R. M. El-Maghraby et al have come  on the hydration kinetics and dihydrate
       nated compounds; ethanol extracted  was studied using two different 1-bed   with water and repeated uses were satis-  aspects including making membranes   out with an interesting and potentially  PG morphology during the HH-DH wet
       the highest content of PAHs. This work  6-step PSA cycle schedules, A and B.   factory. The extraction effi ciency was   without solvents. Thus, there is scope to   useful way of separating CO  in ammo-  process. There are solubility differences
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       provides a basic for industrial utilization of  Eleven PSA experiments were carried   91.6%. With this background a process   have biodegradable polymers, green sol-  nia and urea plants. This strategy was  between HH and DH. A small aspect
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       CTR. [ACs.Omega.2023, DOI:10.1021/  out at 22 C and 345 and 101KPa. [Ind.  containing liquid-liquid extraction and   vents, elimination of fl uoro compounds,   tested experimentally at 38 C and 200  ratio can be realized under low supersatu-
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       acsomega.3C06290].                Eng.Chem.Res.2023, DOI:10.1021/acs.  azeotropic distillation was designed and   etc. [GreenChem., 2023, DOI:10.1039/  bar and through a two-stage separation,  ration conditions and this also leads to
                                         iecr.3C03568].                   the purity of the product was 99.9%. [AI-  D3GC03377E].                      a high-purity CO  stream of 99% conc.  low P loss and improved fi ltration. [Ind.
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       Uniformly distributed mixed                                        ChEJl, 2023, DOI:10.1002/aic.18311].                                         and pure H and N  stream of 96.6 and  Eng.Chem.Res., 2023, DOI:10.1021/acs.
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       matrix membranes via a            Hierarchical porous MOF-199                                                 Adsorptive separation of          91% conc. were obtained, respectively.  iecr.3C03040].
       solution processible strategy     and zeolite composites with      A continuous rotary fi ltration             saccharides and polyols over      ASPEN HYSYS software were used
       for propylene/propane             high adsorption performance      for the separation and purifi -             materials functionalized with     for integration into NH  and urea plants  Nanofi ltration (NF)
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       separation                        for both toluene and acetone     cation of an API                           boronate groups                   and the separated pure N /H  stream is  membranes for Mg /Li
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       [This column has covered several                                                                                                                used in NH  plant. There is a claim of a   separation
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       papers on separation of C H / C H  via   X. Meng et al have synthesized FAU (n)/   W. Wu et al have developed a continuous   I. Delidouich and V. Toussaint have   reduction in capital and operating costs   [There is a lot of activity pertaining to
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       adsorption and membrane in place of   MOF-199 composites which have   rotary fi lter and tested with a commer-  referred to biomass-based value chains   with a total saving of 330-million dollars   the separation of Mg  and Li  obtained
       capital and energy intensive high pres-  shown a good adsorption property for   cially available API. “The fi ltration unit   where  saccharides  and  polyols play   which corresponds to 44.6% of the total   from different sources. This column has
       sure cryogenic distillation columns (also   both weekly polar toluene and strongly   consists of a rotatable plate that receives   key roles and their recovery is chal-  cost compared to conventional amine-  covered this subject.]
       C H /C H  separation).            polar acetone. Good adsorption-de-  a continuous fl ow of feed material that is   lenging. This review has referred to   based capture process. This appears
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                                         sorption stability is reported. [Ind.Eng.  distributed along the radius of the plate,   materials bearing boronate groups for   to be economically feasible. [Ind.Eng.  Y. Zhang et al have reported that PET-
       Y. Su et al have used a ZIF-67 MOF as  Chem.Res.,2023,  DOI:10.1021/acs.  forming a thin cake. The cake is conti-  separating the above products via affi -  Chem.Res., 2023, DOI:10.1021/acs.iecr.  based NF membrane shows great po-
       fi ller along with surface modifi cation  iecr.3C02910].             nuously fi ltered, washed, and removed      nity adsorption processes. Different   3C02529].                    tential for the title separation, due
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