Background Driven by a range of sustainability challenges, eg climate change, resource
depletion and expanding populations, a circular bioeconomy is emerging and expected to …

The conversion of sugarcane, the world's largest crop, to energy vectors, namely first and
second-generation ethanol and electricity, is an ongoing scientific endeavor. This …

Distillation is one of the most widely used separation methods in chemical process
industries. In a typical bioethanol distillation process, the high consumption of energy is the …

Today, at the threshold of the 21st century, rising apprehensions about the instability of oil
prices, energy security, and adverse effects of fossil fuels on the environment, have made it …

Extractive dividing-wall column (E-DWC) is a promising alternative to current bioethanol
recovery and purification processes, garnering interest from the research community. In this …

A process optimization is carried out to separate binary azeotropic mixtures of
tetrahydrofuran and methanol by pressure-swing distillation according to the pressure …

Recently, a novel heat-pump-assisted extractive distillation process taking place in a
dividing-wall column was proposed for bioethanol dehydration. This integrated design …

Distillation is a high energy-consumption process. Using waste heat from the hot side of the
TEM for evaporation and the cold side for condensation can effectively improve the energy …

Separation methods for ethanol production are among the most energy consumption in
chemical industry. The design of efficient process is part of challenges faced by process …

The aim of this work is to design and optimize a RO unit that can be integrated into a
Moroccan distillery, for vinasse purification. The RO membrane was chosen, for its efficiency …