Scale-Up Issues Involving Dilute Aqueous Streams

Novel chemical synthesis pathways are continually being discovered that produce dilute aqueous product streams. Many of these processes involve biosynthesis (such as fermentation) or specialty chemical synthesis, but all are faced with the same process development challenge: how to recover the product in a scalable and economically feasible manner. In this session, we will present talks that focus on novel separation approaches to recovering product from dilute aqueous streams while minimizing the associated scale-up risks.