Succinic acid (SA) is among the top value-added platform chemicals that can be produced
from renewable resources including organic wastes via microbial fermentation. Extensive …

The discovery of itaconic acid as a product of citric acid pyrolytic distillation in 1837 opened
the possibility of using it as a polymer building block. Itaconic acid, featuring two carboxylic …

Over the past decades, the rapid population growth coupled with increased awareness
towards nutrition has driven the demand for organic acids (eg, carboxylates) and proteins …

This investigation focuses on the recovery of levulinic-(LA), acetic-(AA) and formic acids (FA)
from aqueous mixed-acid solutions by reactive extraction using tri-n-octylamine (TOA) …

Bio-based bulk chemicals such as carboxylic acids continue to struggle to compete with their
fossil counterparts on an economic basis. One possibility to improve the economic feasibility …

Biotechnological production of platform chemicals such as (di) carboxylic acids poses
economic and environmental challenges in downstream processing. With conventional …

Efficiency, cost and environmental impact are important parameters that must be addressed
in the recovery and purification of pyruvic acid (PA) from fermentation media. In this study …

To meet the growing demand for high-purity lactic acid (LA) for biocompatible and
biodegradable polymers, LA recovery by green techniques has been attracting the attention …

Fermentation of residues or side streams can be used to produce valuable products, such as
carboxylic acids. Reactive solvent extraction is widely studied as isolation method for lactic …

Alongside vertical gas-evolving electrodes, gas bubbles nucleate, grow, coalesce, detach,
and ultimately form a bubble curtain, affecting the fluid dynamic, electrochemical reaction …