Lactic acid is commonly used in a wide range of fields such as cosmetics, pharmaceutical
products, chemistry and food. During the last years, its use for new applications such as …

The majority of commodity plastics is made from petroleum‐based chemicals. Lactic acid
serves as a monomer for the production of the biodegradable polymer polylactic acid (PLA) …

With increasing interest in developing biodegradable polymers to replace fossil‐based
products globally, lactic acid (LA) has been paid extensive attention due to the high …

In this contribution, a unique multi-objective mixed-integer dynamic optimization problem
considering two conflicting objectives, namely, maximization of amount of product per dollar …

The commercial viability of reactive distillation as a front-runner industrial process
intensification technique is limited by slow reactions. It is because the diameter established …

Although batch reactive distillation process outperforms traditional reactor-distillation
processes due to simultaneous reaction and separation of products for many reaction …

With the growing population and the drastic depletion of fossil fuels, the demand for the
bioproduction of value-added products is increasing. Recently, lactic acid in polylactic acid …

The formation of methyl decanoate (MeDC) by esterification reaction of decanoic acid with
methanol through batch/continuous reactive distillation columns is operationally …

The production of a number of methyl esters such as methyl decanoate (MeDC), methyl
salicylate (MeSC), and methyl benzoate (MeBZ) by esterification reactions of several …

The production of methyl decanoate (MeDC) through esterification of decanoic acid (DeC)
with methanol by reactive distillation is operationally challenging and energy-intensive due …