International Journal of Chemical Separation Technology

The journal welcomes contributions across the following topic areas:

• Membrane Filtration Technologies: microfiltration and ultrafiltration design and operation, nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membrane development, membrane material innovation and surface modification, fouling mitigation and membrane cleaning, diafiltration and membrane-based concentration, and pressure-driven membrane processes
• Reverse Osmosis & Forward Osmosis: interfacial polymerization for membrane synthesis, seawater and brackish water desalination, draw solution development for forward osmosis, osmotic pressure modeling, membrane chemical regeneration and maintenance, and energy-efficient desalination approaches
• Advanced Membrane Materials: polymeric and ceramic membranes, thin-film composite membrane development, nanofiber and electrospun membranes, graphene and carbon nanotube membranes, responsive and self-cleaning membranes, and hybrid membrane systems
• Adsorptive Separation & Ion Exchange: activated carbon and adsorbent development, ion-exchange resins and polymer exchange membranes, adsorption equilibrium and kinetics modeling, multi-component adsorption systems, regeneration of saturated adsorbents, and adsorptive reactor design
• Membrane Bioreactors & Bioprocesses: membrane-activated sludge systems, wastewater treatment and water reuse, biomass separation and bioseparation, cell separation and particle sorting, fermentation coupled with membrane separation, and dialysis applications
• Electroseparation Processes: electrophoresis and dielectrophoresis, electrokinetic separation, electrodialysis and electrodialysis reversal, electrochemical water treatment, electric field-assisted separation, and membrane electrochemistry
• Distillation & Thermal Separation: vapor-liquid equilibrium and distillation theory, membrane distillation and thermally-driven separation, extractive and azeotropic distillation, heat-integrated separation processes, and cryogenic separation
• Liquid-Liquid Extraction & Solvent Extraction: phase equilibria and distribution studies, solvent selection and optimization, reactive extraction systems, reverse micelle extraction, supported liquid membrane extraction, and supercritical fluid extraction
• Adsorptive Separation & Chromatography: liquid chromatography and gas chromatography applications, size-exclusion and ion-exchange chromatography, chromatographic method development and optimization, purification of biomolecules and pharmaceuticals, and analytical separation techniques
• Industrial Wastewater Treatment: oily wastewater treatment and oil-water separation, textile and chemical wastewater processing, heavy metal removal from aqueous solutions, organic pollutant separation and degradation, and drinking water purification
• Separation Equipment Design & Optimization: heat exchanger design for separation operations, membrane module configuration and hydrodynamics, staging and column design, separation equipment scale-up and pilot-plant studies, and process intensification through equipment innovation
• Separation Process Simulation & Modeling: thermodynamic modeling of separation systems, rate-based and equilibrium-based models, population balance modeling for particulate separation, computational fluid dynamics for separation equipment, and multiscale modeling approaches

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