Distillation is the predominant method for chemical separation across the petrochemical, pharmaceutical and fine-chemical industries. Traditional column designs often suffer from high thermal energy ...

With a new polymer that only attracts certain substances from solutions when electrically activated, researchers have taken a major step towards sustainable chemical separation. A team based at the ...

The preceding chapters gave an overview of the many advances in chemical separations and other fields that have emerged in the last 3 decades. Despite the advances, critical challenges remain for the ...

A microfluidic approach combines electric slip and viscoelastic forces to sort nanoscale particles, increasing the purity of synthetic beads and cell vesicles. (Nanowerk News) Separating nanosized ...

The U.S. petroleum processing industry refines 97 percent of the nation's transportation fuels and produces raw materials for other industries, such as the chemical industry. The petroleum refining ...