Process intensification (PI) is a rapidly growing field of research and industrial development
that has already created many innovations in chemical process industry. PI is directed …

The gap between water demand and available water supply led to wastewater treatment,
particularly greywater. Due to specific characteristics of grey wastewater, treatment and …

Adsorption is a fundamental unit operation used for several purposes in the academy and
industry. Particularly, adsorption in liquid phase is used to remove recalcitrant compounds …

We present the RUPTURA code (https://github. com/iraspa/ruptura) as a free and open-
source software package (MIT license) for (1) the simulation of gas adsorption breakthrough …

This work describes the equilibrium and kinetic adsorption of levoglucosan and a mixture of
phenolic species from an aqueous solution on two polymeric resin adsorbents, SP207 and …

Chromatographic separation with solid stationary and fluid mobile phases is widely used to
isolate and purify compounds. One of the most productive improvements in preparative …

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 …

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 …

Optimal control of a simulated moving bed (SMB) process is challenging because the
system dynamics is represented as nonlinear partial differential-algebraic equations …

The scale of CO 2 emissions from light-duty vehicle (LDV) fleets worldwide has led
governments to mandate substantive improvements in vehicle fuel economy, thereby …