Development of an Interactive Software Tool for Designing Solvent Recovery Processes.

ABSTRACT: Solvents are used in chemical and pharmaceutical industries as a reaction medium, selective dissolution and extraction media, and dilution agents. Thus, a sizable amount of solvent waste is generated due to process inefficiencies. Most common ways of handling solvent waste are on-site, off-site disposal, and incineration, which have a considerable negative environmental impact. Solvent recovery is typically not used because of potential difficulties in achieving required purity guidelines, as well as additional infrastructure and investments that are needed. To this end, this problem must be studied carefully by involving aspects from capital needs, environmental benefits, and comparison with traditional disposal methods, while achieving the required purity. Thus, we have developed a user-

SUBMITTER: Stengel JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10035026 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature