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 …

Hydrotropes: Solubilization of nonpolar compounds and modification of surfactant solutions

LY Zakharova, EA Vasilieva, AB Mirgorodskaya… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Control of size, charge, morphological characteristics, stability and functional activity of
practically important compounds is of particular interest. Two classes of amphiphiles …

Calculated physicochemical properties of glycerol-derived solvents to drive plastic waste recycling

A Soyemi, T Szilvási - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Plastic waste has become a major environmental crisis, with the majority of plastic being
produced ending up in open landfills and waterways every year. Solvent-based recycling …

CO2/N2 separation by glycerol aqueous solution in a hollow fiber membrane contactor module: CFD simulation and experimental validation

MM Saadat, S Norouzbahari, M Esmaeili - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, CO 2 separation from CO 2/N 2 mixed gas was experimentally and
theoretically investigated inside a gas–liquid hollow fiber membrane contactor (HFMC) …

Benchmarking Semiempirical QM Methods for Calculating the Dipole Moment of Organic Molecules

A Soyemi, T Szilvási - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2022 - ACS Publications
The dipole moment is a simple descriptor of the charge distribution and polarity and is
important for understanding and predicting various molecular properties. Semiempirical (SE) …

Lignocellulosic-biomolecules conjugate systems: green-engineered complexes modified by covalent linkers

PHC de Lima, RM Ribeiro-Viana, AMS Plath… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Lignocellulosic biomass represents an abundant and eco-friendly material widely explored
in recent years. The main lignocellulosic fractions include cellulose, hemicellulose, and …

Glycerol-Derived Solvents for Tractable Organosolv Extraction of Softwood Lignins

KA Agwu, BC Ekeoma, JM Enguita… - ACS Sustainable …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In the present study, glycerol-derived ethers (GDEs) are evaluated as green solvents to
facilitate organosolv extraction of lignins from softwood biomass. GDEs assessed in the …

Synthesis and properties of symmetric glycerol-derived 1, 2, 3-triethers and 1, 3-diether-2-ketones for CO2 absorption

S Qian, X Liu, CH Turner, JE Bara - Chemical Engineering Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Five compounds bearing glycerol skeletons: 1, 3-diethoxypropan-2-one ([E, K, E]), 2, 5, 9, 12-
tetraoxatridecan-7-one ([ME, K, ME]), 1, 3-bis (2, 2, 2-trifluoroethoxy) propan-2-one ([F, K, F]) …

Glycerol‐derived solvents containing two or three distinct functional groups enabled by trifluoroethyl glycidyl ether

S Qian, X Liu, CH Turner, JE Bara - AIChE Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Conversion of epichlorohydrin to glycidyl ethers creates versatile precursors that can be
transformed into a variety of molecular species with glycerol skeletons, enabling the design …

Methyl and Ethyl Ethers of Glycerol as Potential Green Low-Melting Technical Fluids

V Samoilov, V Lavrentev, M Sultanova, D Ramazanov… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The study is dedicated to the consideration of lower alkyl ethers of glycerol as potential
components of low-melting technical fluids (eg, heat transfer fluids, hydraulic fluids, aircraft …