Separations through reactions and other novel strategies

Abstract

Separation processes are essential to virtually all manufacturing processes. Literally, thousands of products are fractionated to the desired purity by different separation techniques. These techniques play a pivotal role in industry due to high associated capital and operating costs. Frequently, the cost of the separations constitute a major part of the economics of the plant. There is an ever increasing emphasis on improving the quality of industrial products and it is not uncommon to find impurities specified at ppm level and some cases even at ppb level. There is demand on reducing capital and running costs and make separation processes safer, reliable and more selective.