A review on oilcake biomass waste into biofuels: Current conversion techniques, sustainable applications, and challenges: Waste to energy approach (WtE)

S Sudalai, S Prabakaran, V Varalakksmi… - Energy Conversion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Growing focus on economical substrate utilization in bioprocess industries has resulted in
the utilization of organic residue from several industrial sectors. This review delves into the …

Biochemical biorefinery: A low-cost and non-waste concept for promoting sustainable circular bioeconomy

VC Igbokwe, FN Ezugworie, CO Onwosi… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The transition from a fossil-based linear economy to a circular bioeconomy is no longer an
option but rather imperative, given worldwide concerns about the depletion of fossil …

Design and control of vapor recompression assisted extractive distillation for separating n-hexane and ethyl acetate

Z Feng, W Shen, GP Rangaiah, L Dong - Separation and Purification …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ethyl acetate and n-hexane are two widely used organic solvents in chemical and
pharmaceutical industries; however, separation of their mixtures is very challenging due to …

Production of butanol from biomass: recent advances and future prospects

BO Abo, M Gao, Y Wang, C Wu, Q Wang… - Environmental Science and …, 2019 - Springer
At present, diminishing oil resources and increasing environmental concerns have led to a
shift toward the production of alternative biofuels. In the last few decades, butanol, as liquid …

Comparison of heterogeneous azeotropic and pressure-swing distillations for separating the diisopropylether/isopropanol/water mixtures

C Guang, X Shi, Z Zhang, C Wang, C Wang… - … Research and Design, 2019 - Elsevier
Isopropanol and diisopropylether are the two important organic solvents in the chemical
industry. The diisopropylether/isopropanol/water mixtures contain multiple homogenous and …

Heat pump assisted extractive distillation sequences with intermediate-boiling entrainer

C Wang, Y Zhuang, L Liu, L Zhang, J Du - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Currently, no research has focused on improving the economic efficiency and environmental
sustainability of the classic extractive distillation (CED) process through using both vapor …

Review of alternative technologies for acetone-butanol-ethanol separation: Principles, state-of-the-art, and development trends

D Cai, J Wen, Y Zhuang, T Huang, Z Si, P Qin… - Separation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract n-Butanol is an advanced next-generation drop-in biofuel, which can be produced
by anaerobic acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation using biomass derived …

[HTML][HTML] Recent innovations for reviving the ABE fermentation for production of butanol as a drop-in liquid biofuel

H Amiri - Biofuel Research Journal, 2020 - biofueljournal.com
Butanol is a key microbial product that provides a route from renewable carbohydrate
resources to a" drop-in" liquid biofuel, broadening its market in the near future. The …

Insight on the sustainable design and multi-objective optimization for separating the ternary azeotropic mixture of toluene/n-butanol/water by natural decanting …

L Qi, A Yang, ZY Kong, S Sun, W Shen - Separation and Purification …, 2023 - Elsevier
The effective recovery of n-butanol (BuOH) and toluene from wastewater via sustainable
separation process is critical to promote environmental protection and resource utilization. In …

Inherently safer design and optimization of intensified separation processes for furfural production

G Contreras-Zarazúa, E Sánchez-Ramírez… - Industrial & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Currently furfural production has been the subject of increased interest because it is a
biobased chemical able to compete with fossil-based chemicals. Furfural is characterized by …