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Physicochemical and Performance Characterization of Six Commercial Organic Solvent Nanofiltration Membranes H. Wu, S. Xu, L. Valentino and M. Urgun-Demirtas |
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Machine Learning-Driven Solvent Screening for Biobased 2,3-Butanediol Extraction Justin P. Edaugal, Difan Zhang, Tyrell S. A. Lewis, Dupeng Liu, Vassiliki-Alexandra Glezakou, and Ning Sun |
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Current developments in electrochemical separations Christopher G. Arges, Martin Z. Bazant, Roland D. Cusick, T. Alan Hatton, Steven A. Hawks, Chia-Hung Hou, Jovan Kamcev, David G. Kwabi, James Landon, Shihong Lin, Yupo J. Lin, Chong Liu, Xiao Su, William A. Tarpeh, Lauren Valentino, David Waite & Haotian Wang |
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Adsorptive denitrogenation of model aviation fuel using mesoporous silica in a packed bed adsorption system Blake N. Trusty, Erik Head, Saurabh Prakash Pethe, Ramesh Bhave, Andrew Sutton, Daniel Santosa, Peipei Wang, Syed Z. Islam |
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Adsorption Equilibrium, Kinetics, and Column Breakthrough Data of Acetic Acid, Butyric Acid, and Lactic Acid on the IRN-78 Ion-Exchange Resin at Initial pH (∼3–7) and Temperature (25–55 °C) Usman Hamid, Cheng-Ju Hsieh, Haoran Wu, Lauren Valentino, Meltem Urgun-Demirtas, Chau-Chyun Chen |
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Adsorption Equilibrium, Kinetics, and Column Breakthrough Data for Aqueous Solutions of Binary-Acid and Ternary-Acid Mixtures of Acetic Acid, Butyric Acid, and Lactic Acid on IRN-78 Ion-Exchange Resin at Initial pH Levels of ∼3–7 and at 25–55 °C Usman Hamid, Cheng-Ju Hsieh, Haoran Wu, Lauren Valentino, Meltem Urgun-Demirtas, Chau-Chyun Chen |
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Solvent Screening for Separation Processes Using Machine Learning and High-Throughput Technologies Justin P. Edaugal, Difan Zhang, Dupeng Liu, Vassiliki-Alexandra Glezakou, Ning Sun |
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Techno-Economic Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment for the Separation of 2,3-Butanediol from Fermentation Broth Using Liquid–Liquid Extraction Jian Liu, William L. Kubic Jr., Eric C. D. Tan, Jacob W. Dempsey, Pahola Thathiana Benavides, Sweta Balchandani, Hakan Olcay, Dupeng Liu, Ning Sun, Shailesh Dangwal, Blake N. Trusty, Syed Z. Islam, Ramesh R. Bhave |
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Energy-Efficient Capacitive Deionization through Electrode Modification and Process Development Lauren Valentino, Lily Callen, Samantha Kelly, Sungjoon Kim |
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Carboxylic acid concentration in downstream bioprocessing using high-pressure reverse osmosis Yian Chen, Hakan Olcay, Eric C.D. Tan, Sean P. Woodworth, Joel Miscall, Adewale Aromolaran, Patrick O. Saboe, Jeffrey G. Linger, Gregg T. Beckham |
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Integration of metabolic and bioprocess engineering for the production of β-ketoadipic acid from glucose and xylose by Pseudomonas putida Gabriel M. Rubinstein, Sekgetho C. Mokwatlo, Louis Chirban, Ariel R. Lepard, Morgan A. Ingraham, Kelsey J. Ramirez, Hoon Choi, Patrick O. Saboe, Davinia Salvachúa, Christopher W. Johnson, Gregg T. Beckham |
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Implementation and evaluation of multi-dual mode counter-current chromatography in the CUP Modeler software Manar Alherech, Gregg T. Beckham, Hoon Choi |
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Thermodynamic modeling of aqueous acetic acid, butyric acid, and lactic acid solutions Cheng-Ju Hsieh, Usman Hamid, Haoran Wu, Lauren Valentino, Meltem Urgun-Demirtas, Chau-Chyun Chen |
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Predicting Multicomponent Aqueous Phase Adsorption Equilibria of Organic Acids Using the Generalized Brunauer–Emmett–Teller Isotherm Model Usman Hamid, Cheng-Ju Hsieh, Haoran Wu, Lauren Valentino, Meltem Urgun-Demirtas, Chau-Chyun Chen |
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Sulfonated Polybenzimidazole Membrane with Graphene Oxide Additive for 2, 3-Butanediol/Water Separation: A Molecular Simulation Zhang, D., Glezakou, V.-A., and Rousseau, R. |
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Adsorptive Denitrogenation of Model Fuel with Silica Gel Wang, P., Liu, J., Zhang, D., Chambers, D., Li, S. and Santosa, D. |
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An Integrated Approach to Optimizing Concentration Shock Wave Electrodialysis Using 2D Multicell Simulation and Response Surface Models Lin, Y.-I., Pan, S.-Y., Lin, Y. J., and Tseng, P.-C. |
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Liquid-liquid Extraction for In Situ Carboxylic Acid Recovery via Continuous Membrane-based Emulsion Separations Choi, H., Alherech, M., Jang, J. H., Woodworth, S. P., Ramirez, K. J., Karp, E. M., and Beckham, G. T. |
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Sustainable Aviation Fuel from High-Strength Wastewater via Membrane-Assisted Volatile Fatty Acid Production: Experimental Evaluation, Techno-economic, and Life-Cycle Analyses Wu, H., Kim, T., Ferdous, S., Scheve, T., Lin, Y., Valentino, L., Holtzapple, M. Hawkins, T. R., Benavides, P. T., and Urgun-Demirtas, M |
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Counter-Current Chromatography for Lignin Monomer–Monomer and Monomer–Oligomer Separations from Reductive Catalytic Fractionation Oil Choi, H., Alherech, M., Jang, J. H., Woodworth, S. P., Ramirez, K. J., Karp, E. M., and Beckham, G. T. |
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Capacitive Deionization for the Extraction and Recovery of Butyrate Valentino, L. and Alejandre, A. |
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Reactive Extraction Process for Separating 2,3-Butanediol from Fermentation Broth Kubic, W. L. and Tan, E. C. D. |
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Imidazolium-Type Anion Exchange Membranes for Improved Organic Acid Transport and Permselectivity in Electrodialysis Jordan, M. L., Kulkarni, T., Senadheera, D. I., Kumar, R., Lin, Y. J., and Arges, C.G. |
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Integrated Ion-Exchange Membrane Resin Wafer Assemblies for Aromatic Organic Acid Separations Using Electrodeionization Jordan, M. L., Dona, H. K. G., Senadheera, D. I., Kumar, R., Lin, Y.J., and Arges, C.G. |
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Methodology for assessing the maximum potential impact of separations opportunities in industrial processes Liu, J., Dempsey, J. W., Li, S., Jiang, Y., Snowden-Swan, L. J., Kubic, W. L., Tan, E. C. D., and Freeman, C. J. |
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Mechanistic Insights and Rational Design of Ca-Doped CeO2 Catalyst for Acetic Acid Ketonization Zhou, M., Church, A. L., Cordon, M. J., Li, C., Hunt, R. D. Choi, J.-S., Bai, L., Li, Z., Parks, J. E., Hu, M. Z., Curtiss, L. A., and Assary, R. S. |
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Bioprocessing Separations Consortium Listening Day The Bioprocessing Separations Consortium hosted a virtual workshop in July 2021 to explore technical opportunities, identify knowledge gaps, and prioritize separations challenges related to bioprocessing separations. |
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Recovery of low molecular weight compounds from alkaline pretreatment liquor via membrane separations Saboe, P. O., Tomashek, E. G., Monroe, H. R., Haugen, S. J., Prestangen, R. R., Cleveland, N. S., Happs, R. M., Miscall, J., Ramirez, K. J., Katahira, R., Tan, E. C. D., Yan, J., Sun, N., Beckham, G. T., Karp, E. M. |
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Fractionation of Lignin Streams Using Tangential Flow Filtration Yan, J., Tan, E. C. D., Katahira, R., Pray, T. R., Sun, N. |
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Separation of bio-based glucaric acid via antisolvent crystallization and azeotropic drying Choi, H., Soland, N. E., Buss, B. L., Honeycutt, N. C., Tomashek, E. G. Haugen, S. J., Ramirez, K. J., Miscall, J., Tan, E. C. D., Smith, T. N., Saboe, P. O., Karp, E. M. |
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The cell utilized partitioning model as a predictive tool for optimizing counter-current chromatography processes Choi, H., Soland, N. E., Moss, M. R., Liu, J., Prestangen, R. R., Katahira, R. Lee, S.-J., Thorson, M. R., Freeman, C. J., Karp, E. M. |
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Process intensification for the biological production of the fuel precursor butyric acid from biomass Salvachúa, D., Saboe, P. O., Nelson, R. S., Singer, C., McNamara, I., Cerro, C. D., Chou, Y.-C., Mohagheghi, A., Peterson, D. J., Haugen, S., Cleveland, N. S., Monroe, H. R., Guarnieri, M. T., Tan, E. C. D., Beckham, G. T., Karp, E. M., Linger, J. G. |
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Energy and techno-economic analysis of bio-based carboxylic acid recovery by adsorption Saboe, P., Manker, L. P., Monroe, H. R., Michener, W. E., Haugen, S., Tan, E. C. D., Prestangen, R. L., Beckham, G. T., & Karp, E. M. (2021). Green Chemistry |
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Performance characterization of nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, and ion exchange technologies for acetic acid separation Wu, H., Valentino, L., Riggio, S., Holtzapple, M., & Urgun-Demirtas, M. (2021). Separation and Purification Technology |
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Bioprocessing Separations Consortium Three-Year Overview: Technical Advances, Process Economics Influence, and State of the Science Jones, S., Tan, E., Dunn, J. B., Valentino, L., Barry, E., Edano, L., Ignacio-de Leon, P., Laible, P., Lin, Y., Coons, J., Dale, T., Gasway, C., Yap, B., Sun, N., Pray, T., Sundstrom, E., Yan, J., Beckham, G. T., Biddy, M., Chiaramonte, D., Davis, R., Dell’Orco, S., Deutch, S., Dutta, A., Engtrakul, C., Haugen, S., Karp, E., Manker, L., Magrini, K., Michener, B., Monroe, H., Peterson, B., Saboe, P., Sprague, M., Wilson, N., Hu, M. Z., Bischoff, B. L., Church, A., Choi, J.-S., Li, Z., Wu, T., Theiss, T., Freeman, C., Glezakou, V., Lee, S.-J., Liu, J., Swita, M., Thorson, M., Wang, H., & Davis, R. (2020). |
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Atomic scale understanding of organic anion separations using ion-exchange resins Zhang, D., Gurunathan, P., Valentino, L., Lin, Y., Rousseau, R., & Glezakou, V. (2020). Journal of Membrane Science |
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Capacitive deionization using carbon derived from an array of zeolitic-imidazolate frameworks Wang, H., Edaño, L., Valentino, L., Lin, Y. J., Palakkal, V. M., Hu, D.-L., Chen, B.-H., & Liu, D.-J. (2020). Nano Energy |
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Selective adsorption removal of carbonyl molecular foulants from real fast pyrolysis bio-oils Church, A. L., Hu, M. Z., Lee, S.-J., Wang, H., & Liu, J. (2020). Biomass and Bioenergy |
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Novel Porous Ceramic Tube-Supported Polymer Layer Membranes for Acetic Acid/Water Separation by Pervaporation Dewatering Lu, M., & Hu, M. Z. (2020). Separation and Purification Technology |
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Promoting water-splitting in Janus bipolar ion-exchange resin wafers for electrodeionization Jordan, M. L., Valentino, L., Nazyrynbekova, N., Palakkal, V. M., Kole, S., Bhattacharya, D., Lin, Y. J., & Arges, C. G. (2020). Molecular Systems Design & Engineering |
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Advancing electrodeionization with conductive ionomer binders that immobilize ion-exchange resin particles into porous wafer substrates Palakkal, V. M., Valentino, L., Lei, Q., Kole, S., Lin, Y. J., & Arges, C. G. (2020). npj Clean Water |
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Catalytic Hot-Gas Filtration with a Supported Heteropolyacid Catalyst for Preconditioning Biomass Pyrolysis Vapors Peterson, B., Engtrakul, C., Wilson, A. N., Dell’Orco, S., Orton, K. A., Deutch, S., Yung, M. M., Starace, A. K., Parent, Y., Chiaramonti, D., & Magrini, K. A. (2019). ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering |
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In situ product recovery of bio-based ethyl esters via hybrid extraction-distillation Saboe, P. O., Monroe, H. R., Michener, W. E., Manker, L. P., Haugen, S. J., Beckham, G. T., & Karp, E. M. (2019). Green Chemistry |
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Post-fermentation recovery of biobased carboxylic acids Karp, E. M., Cywar, R. M., Manker, L. P., Saboe, P. O., Nimlos, C. T., Salvachúa, D., Wang, X., Black, B. A., Reed, M. L., Michener, W. E., Rorrer, N. A., & Beckham, G. T. (2018). ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering |
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Acetic Acid/Propionic Acid Conversion on Metal Doped Molybdenum Carbide Catalyst Beads for Catalytic Hot Gas Filtration Lu, M., Lepore, A. W., Choi, J.-S., Li, Z., Wu, Z., Polo-Garzon, F., & Hu, M. Z. (2018). Catalysts |
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Surface-Engineered Inorganic Nanoporous Membranes for Vapor and Pervaporative Separations of Water–Ethanol Mixtures Hu, M. Z., Engtrakul, C., Bischoff, B. L., Lu, M., & Alemseghed, M. (2018). Membranes |
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In situ recovery of bio-based carboxylic acids Saboe, P. O., Manker, L. P., Michener, W. E., Peterson, D. J., Brandner, D. G., Deutch, S. P., Kumar, M., Cywar, R. M., Beckham, G. T., & Karp, E. M. (2018). Green Chemistry |
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Getting to Low-Cost Algal Biofuels: A Monograph on Conventional and Cutting-Edge Harvesting and Extraction Technologies (Coons et al., 2014)Coons, J. E., Kalb, D. M., Dale, T., & Marrone, B. L. (2014). Algal Research |














































