Alternative Process Technologies for High-Water Applications

Many "sustainable" chemical manufacturing operations involve processing of aqueous mixtures, which provides unique chemical engineering challenges compared to more traditional petrochemical-based processes. For example, traditional downstream separation processes such as distillation and evaporation exist to remove various products from these aqueous mixtures, but such thermal processing of dilute aqueous solutions requires large energy inputs, which negatively impacts the process economics and sustainability. This session will feature talks describing alternative processing approaches to consider for more efficiently addressing process development with dilute aqueous streams.