{"title":"Recent progress on sustainable membrane manufacturing with green solvents and biopolymers","authors":"Chidambaram Thamaraiselvan, Ranil Wickramasinghe","doi":"10.1016/j.coche.2025.101092","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Membrane technology offers the potential for low-footprint solutions for industrial separation processes. However, using hazardous and conventional toxic solvents in membrane fabrication has raised sustainability concerns, prompting researchers to seek safer, bio-based solvent alternatives. Further disposal of used membranes is problematic. Both these concerns adversely affect the overall life cycle analysis. Green chemistry principles aim to reduce hazardous substances in chemical applications. Many studies have explored replacing conventional toxic solvents with less harmful green solvents. This opinion article covers the most recent trends, challenges, future directions, and advancements in sustainable membrane manufacturing over the past 4 years. These advances will lead to more sustainable membrane processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":292,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering","volume":"47 ","pages":"Article 101092"},"PeriodicalIF":6.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211339825000036","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/1/27 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Membrane technology offers the potential for low-footprint solutions for industrial separation processes. However, using hazardous and conventional toxic solvents in membrane fabrication has raised sustainability concerns, prompting researchers to seek safer, bio-based solvent alternatives. Further disposal of used membranes is problematic. Both these concerns adversely affect the overall life cycle analysis. Green chemistry principles aim to reduce hazardous substances in chemical applications. Many studies have explored replacing conventional toxic solvents with less harmful green solvents. This opinion article covers the most recent trends, challenges, future directions, and advancements in sustainable membrane manufacturing over the past 4 years. These advances will lead to more sustainable membrane processes.
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Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering is devoted to bringing forth short and focused review articles written by experts on current advances in different areas of chemical engineering. Only invited review articles will be published.
The goals of each review article in Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering are:
1. To acquaint the reader/researcher with the most important recent papers in the given topic.
2. To provide the reader with the views/opinions of the expert in each topic.
The reviews are short (about 2500 words or 5-10 printed pages with figures) and serve as an invaluable source of information for researchers, teachers, professionals and students. The reviews also aim to stimulate exchange of ideas among experts.
Themed sections:
Each review will focus on particular aspects of one of the following themed sections of chemical engineering:
1. Nanotechnology
2. Energy and environmental engineering
3. Biotechnology and bioprocess engineering
4. Biological engineering (covering tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, drug delivery)
5. Separation engineering (covering membrane technologies, adsorbents, desalination, distillation etc.)
6. Materials engineering (covering biomaterials, inorganic especially ceramic materials, nanostructured materials).
7. Process systems engineering
8. Reaction engineering and catalysis.
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