Ultrasonic and Microwave Assisted Applications in Synthesis, Processing and Extraction
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 2652
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microwave chemistry, sonochemistry, biorefineries, bioproducts, environmental pollution, green chemistry
Interests: Time Scales of (Bio)Chemical Processes; Integration and Intensification of (Bio)Chemical processes; Biological, Biochemical and Chemical Reactors; Systems Optimization and Optimal Control; Artificial Intelligence in (Bio)Chemical Engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the 21st century, resources depleting, stricter legislation and the increase of waste disposal costs, put rising pressure on the chemical and related industries. To survive in the current climate, the issue of sustainability must be fundamental approach for anyone working in teaching, research and industry.
One-way process industries may comply to this new paradigm is the application of processes intensification techniques for higher energy efficiency, thus, sustainability.
Ultrasound (US) and microwave (MW) techniques are amongst the most attractive methods for process intensification, but nowadays process industries are rather conservative concerning technology change, especially concerning the way the activation energy is supplied in chemical processes.
Although the first articles describing the combined use of US and MW have appeared starting with this century, there are still many aspects that have not been completely elucidated: mathematical modeling of the combined effects of US and MW, the special conditions that an equipment must meet to operate under combined US and MW fields, but, especially, the scaling up of this equipment for industrial use.
This Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers presenting original and innovative contributions in the field of combined use of US and MW in material processing, chemical synthesis, extraction of natural principles, etc.
Papers selected for this Special Issue will be subject to a rigorous peer-review process with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.
Prof. Ioan Calinescu
Prof. Vasile Lavric
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- ultrasound
- microwave
- intensification techniques
- sonochemistry
- dielectric heating
- scale-up
- enabling technologies
- extraction
- synthesis
