Issue 11, 2020

Reporting the unreported: the reliability and comparability of the literature on organic solvent nanofiltration

Abstract

Organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) is an energy-efficient separation technique that has the potential to improve environmental sustainability in many industrial sectors, including food processing, biorefineries, and in the production of pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals and petrochemicals. Some issues, however, hinder the pace of development of this sustainable separation method that could ultimately provide green manufacturing strategies. These issues include lack of clear experimental designs, explicit experimental protocols, comparable performance data and long-term performance tests of membranes at industrially relevant solute concentrations in OSN studies. Here, we report on a survey of the OSN research community and on a critical assessment of 177 journal papers published from 2015 to 2019 to determine how the scientific value and industrial impact of OSN studies can be improved. Based on the results of our survey and literature analysis, we crafted a series of best-practice recommendations for researchers reporting data on membrane fabrication, membrane materials characterization and filtration performance, process integration and fundamental studies.

Graphical abstract: Reporting the unreported: the reliability and comparability of the literature on organic solvent nanofiltration

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Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
03 Mar 2020
Accepted
06 May 2020
First published
06 May 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Green Chem., 2020,22, 3397-3409

Reporting the unreported: the reliability and comparability of the literature on organic solvent nanofiltration

H. A. Le Phuong, C. F. Blanford and G. Szekely, Green Chem., 2020, 22, 3397 DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00775G

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