Cheese whey, the main dairy by-product, is increasingly recognized as a source of many
bioactive valuable compounds. Nevertheless, the most abundant component in whey is …

Multi‐column distillation followed by molecular sieve adsorption is currently the standard
method for producing fuel‐grade ethanol from dilute fermentation broths in modern corn‐to …

Bio-ethanol as a clean and renewable fuel has gained more attention; however greater
energy inputs make a slow progress in industry. Membrane technology has potential in the …

Due to an emerging scarcity of oil resources and an associated increase of oil prices,
biofuels (eg, ethanol) play an important role in the energy crisis. Fermentation is a common …

Food processing industry operations need to comply with increasingly more stringent
environmental regulations related to the disposal or utilisation of by-products and wastes …

Banana waste has the potential to produce ethanol with a low-cost and sustainable
production method. The present work seeks to evaluate the separation of ethanol produced …

In this article we presented the current state and prospects for development of bioenergy in
Poland. There are over 100 energy crop plantations of the area of at least 5ha each, 44 …

Microporous polymer membranes have been widely studied because of their excellent
separation performance. Among them, polymers of intrinsic micro-porosity (PIMs) have been …

BACKGROUND: Energy efficient alternatives to distillation for alcohol recovery from dilute
solution are needed to improve biofuel sustainability. A process integrating steam stripping …

Solvent parameters and solvent–membrane interaction parameters that determine the
permeation of pure solvents through silicalite-filled and unfilled PDMS-based membranes in …