Ionic liquids and continuous flow processes: a good marriage to design sustainable processes

Ionic Liquids: Solvents for sustainable chemistry

Systematic Sustainable Process Design and Analysis of Biodiesel Processes

Biodiesel is a promising fuel alternative compared to traditional diesel obtained from conventional sources such as fossil fuel. Many flowsheet alternatives exist for the production of biodiesel and therefore it is necessary to evaluate these alternatives using defined criteria and also from process intensification opportunities. This work focuses on three main aspects that have been incorporat...

Computational approaches to understanding reaction outcomes of organic processes in ionic liquids

This review considers how various computational methods have been applied to explain the changes in reaction outcome on moving from a molecular to an ionic liquid solvent. Initially, different conceptual approaches to modelling ionic liquids are discussed, followed by a consideration of the limitations and constraints of these approaches. A series of case studies demonstrating the utility of co...

Sustainable eScience processes and systems

The advent of new means of performing research and sharing results in eScience settings poses new threats and sets new requirements to research procedures. One of them is providing long-term access and means for ensuring correct interpretation of research artefacts in the future. For this purpose several problems and challenges have to be solved to embody the concept of sustainable eScience. In...

Encapsulated ionic liquids (ENILs): from continuous to discrete liquid phase.

Encapsulated ionic liquid (ENIL) material was developed, consisting of ionic liquid (IL) introduced into carbon submicrocapsules. ENILs contain >85% w/w of IL but discretized in submicroscopic encapsulated drops, drastically increasing the surface contact area with respect to the neat fluid. ENIL materials were here tested for gas separation processes, obtaining a drastic increase in mass trans...