Separation has always been an important task in the chemical industry. Even with the recent shift in emphasis and efforts to unify the physical and biological sciences, separation will remain an important workhorse in production and product/process design. The theory of simple distillation and residue curve maps has a long history—roughly 100 years—and has made a significant impact in the way m...

In MgO nanocube powders surface excitons can separate and the resulting charge carriers provide reactive adsorption sites at well-defined surface elements. We employed photoluminescence (PL) emission bands originating from the photoexcitation of nanocube corners and edges as quantitative probes to explore their chemical reactivity towards molecular hydrogen. Surface excitons which form at corne...

A novel metal-carboxylate system metal–organic frameworks ([Zn2(cam)2dabco] (Zn-CD)) membrane was synthesized on porous ZnO support and used for gas separation. XRD and SEM were used to characterize the structure, composition, and morphology of the membrane. The results proved that the uniform Zn-CD seeding layer and continuous Zn-CD membrane were effectively achieved by reactive seeding method...

The presented work addresses the integrated design of solvent molecules with separation and reactive-separation process systems. The proposed design philosophy relies on extensive structural optimization both at the solvent and process synthesis stage and allows the identification of solvent molecules based on process performance criteria. It employs multi-objective optimization technology in o...

Multi-objective (energy–economic–safety) assessment of ethyl acetate production involving a heat pump is presented in this paper. The designed to intensify separation and reduce the total operating cost. Two pathways are upgraded using pump, conventional process reactive distillation column with unit. Detailed models including environment have been compiled optimized Aspen Plus software. Both b...

Front cover image: Identification of the reaction sites though atomic-level perspective is significant for designing highly efficient CO2 reduction photocatalysts. In article number 10.1002/cey2.264, Wang and co-workers report a desirable sulfidation strategy over an Aurivillius-related photocatalyst Bi2O2SiO3, which facilitate local charge separation, contributing to enhanced rate selectivity....

Highly efficient cell-free plasma separation from 200 µL of human whole blood was realized via axial migration of blood cells and cross-flow filtration in a microchip. Although various analyses of small volumes of blood have been reported, a large volume of blood is necessary for obtaining blood cells and plasma for the conventional plasma separation technique of centrifugation. A highly effi...

Reactive residue curve maps (RRCM) are useful for the design of reactive distillation columns as a tool to establish feasible zones of reaction-separation. The calculation of RRCM usually involves great computational effort due to the nonlinearity of the model equations and its iterative nature for the determination of reactive phase equilibrium. In this study, a simplified method for the gener...