Citric acid consumption is escalating gradually, witnessing high annual growth rate due to
more and more advanced applications coming to light. The present review discusses …

Chromatographic separation processes are widely used to isolate and purify value added
products. Most frequently, such separation processes are performed exploiting the principles …

The objective of this work is to present a review of computational tools and models for
pharmaceutical processes, specifically those for the continuous manufacture of solid dosage …

One of the first applications of Simulated Moving Bed (SMB) technology was in p‐xylene
recovery from mixed xylenes. The three main industrial processes for p‐xylene separation …

Vapor-phase adsorption of the C8 alkylaromatic components p-xylene (px), m-xylene (mx), o-
xylene (ox), and ethylbenzene (eb) on the three-dimensional microporous metal− organic …

This work presents a comprehensive insight about simulated moving bed (SMB) technology,
from concept to unit operation and process demonstration. A particular relevance is given to …

Abstract The Particles Swarm Optimization (PSO) is an optimization technique that has been
gaining attention in the last years. In this work, the PSO method is applied to optimize the …

Abstract The Simulated Moving Bed (SMB) concept has been applied to the separation of
different mixtures as a continuous counter current separation process, avoiding several …

The biomass-based platform molecule 2, 3-butanediol (2, 3-BDO) has a wide range of
applications in production of sustainable fuels, chemicals, synthetic rubber, and others …

Propylene is one of the world's more important commodities. Nonetheless, its production
involves an high energy demanding separation step from a propane–propylene mixture. In …