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A review of recent advances in solvent-based technologies for postcombustion CO 2 capture 燃烧后co2捕集溶剂基技术的最新进展综述

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Reviews in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-04-24 DOI: 10.1515/revce-2025-0082

Somayeh Mirzaei, Chin-Yu Hsu, Ruei-Hao Shie, Akshansha Chauhan

{"title":"A review of recent advances in solvent-based technologies for postcombustion CO 2 capture","authors":"Somayeh Mirzaei, Chin-Yu Hsu, Ruei-Hao Shie, Akshansha Chauhan","doi":"10.1515/revce-2025-0082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/revce-2025-0082","url":null,"abstract":"As a result of recent advances, solvent-based postcombustion CO 2 capture (PCC) systems have shown markedly improved absorption capacity, regeneration efficiency, and solvent stability compared with conventional monoethanolamine systems. This review provides a comparative assessment of seven major solvent classes, namely, amine blends and promoters, amino acid-based solvents, phase-change solvents, water-lean and nonaqueous systems, ionic liquids (ILs), deep eutectic solvents (DESs), and nanofluids. Among these solvent classes, amine blends remain the most practical short-term solution, achieving 33–60 % reductions in regeneration energy with proven scalability. Phase-change and biphasic solvents deliver the lowest regeneration energies (0.74–1.3 GJ t −1 CO 2 ) among solvent classes, whereas water-lean systems balance energy savings with corrosion resistance and reduced water use. DESs and ILs offer long-term potential through molecular tunability and environmental compatibility. However, their viscosity and recyclability remain key challenges. Nanofluids expand the research frontier by coupling chemical reactivity with enhanced mass transfer. Progress in solvent-based PCC depends on integrating molecular design, process optimization, and pilot-scale validation to achieve low-energy, stable, and scalable CO 2 capture technologies.","PeriodicalId":54485,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Chemical Engineering","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147739214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reviews in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-04-12 DOI: 10.1515/revce-2026-frontmatter3

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A comprehensive review on bentonite and its applications in petroleum industry 膨润土及其在石油工业中的应用综述

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Reviews in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-04-10 DOI: 10.1515/revce-2025-0046

Seyed Taha Hosseini, Reza Azin, Shahriar Osfouri, Erfan Mohammadian

{"title":"A comprehensive review on bentonite and its applications in petroleum industry","authors":"Seyed Taha Hosseini, Reza Azin, Shahriar Osfouri, Erfan Mohammadian","doi":"10.1515/revce-2025-0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/revce-2025-0046","url":null,"abstract":"Bentonite, a smectite clay mineral, is essential in petroleum operations for its swelling capacity, thixotropy, and cation exchange properties. However, its effectiveness in high-salinity and high-temperature environments remains a significant challenge. This review synthesizes advanced engineering strategies to enhance bentonite’s performance for modern petroleum applications. It examines activation methods, including acid, thermal, alkaline, and nanomaterial treatments, and their effects on colloidal stability and rheological properties. The review highlights bentonite’s role in enhanced oil recovery, showing that polymer-clay nanocomposites improve thermal stability and conformance control. Data indicate that adding bentonite can extend polyacrylamide gel lifespan from 37 to 120 days at 100 °C and increase elastic modulus by 40 %. The review also evaluates Iranian bentonite reserves as a case study, analyzing their mineralogy and activation needs. By linking fundamental properties with targeted engineering, this review offers a strategic framework for developing advanced bentonite technologies to support more sustainable and efficient hydrocarbon recovery.","PeriodicalId":54485,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Chemical Engineering","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147649034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Recent trends in textile waste recycling: an overview 纺织废料回收的最新趋势：综述

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Reviews in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-03-17 DOI: 10.1515/revce-2025-0027

Lyudmila Slobodkina, Roksana Muzyka, Marcin Sajdak, Szymon Sobek, Sebastian Werle

{"title":"Recent trends in textile waste recycling: an overview","authors":"Lyudmila Slobodkina, Roksana Muzyka, Marcin Sajdak, Szymon Sobek, Sebastian Werle","doi":"10.1515/revce-2025-0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/revce-2025-0027","url":null,"abstract":"The global textile industry is an important economic driver, but at the same time it generates serious environmental challenges. These challenges are twofold: the vast amounts of textile waste generated each year and the substantial climate impacts caused mainly during the production phase. According to the European Environment Agency, about 80 % of the total climate impact of textiles derives from production, 14 % from the use phase (washing, drying, ironing), 3 % from distribution and retail, and 3 % from end-of-life stage, which includes collection, sorting, recycling, incineration, and landfilling. By 2030, global apparel (clothing + footwear) consumption is projected to rise from around 70 million tons today to approximately 105 million tons. Despite this growth, less than half of textile items are collected for reuse or recycling after use, and only a very small fraction – under 1 % – are recycled into new garments. This gap is primarily due to technical barriers: the processing of mixed fibers, chemical finishing and additives, as well as the lack of scalable and cost-competitive processing systems. This review examines current work on textile waste processing, taking into account technological, regulatory, economic, and environmental factors. It also identifies innovations and strategies for developing a circular economy.","PeriodicalId":54485,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Chemical Engineering","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147471105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Eco-friendly production technologies for poly(vinyl acetate) wood adhesives: recent progress and challenges – a short review 聚（醋酸乙烯）木材胶粘剂的环保生产技术：最近的进展和挑战-简短回顾

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Reviews in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-02-28 DOI: 10.1515/revce-2025-0051

Michał Frycholc, Marcin Libera, Marcin Sajdak

{"title":"Eco-friendly production technologies for poly(vinyl acetate) wood adhesives: recent progress and challenges – a short review","authors":"Michał Frycholc, Marcin Libera, Marcin Sajdak","doi":"10.1515/revce-2025-0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/revce-2025-0051","url":null,"abstract":"Wood adhesives have come a long way from urea-formaldehyde (UF) resins to waterborne poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc) latex polymerized by emulsion polymerization. Nevertheless, while modern adhesives are more environmentally friendly, they still contain low concentrations of substances considered to be toxic or carcinogenic. Increasing social awareness about the environmental friendliness and toxicity of chemical compounds has pressured producers of wood-based materials and furniture to develop new green technologies and eliminate potentially dangerous chemical compounds. The crucial parameter for wood adhesives is the durability class of water resistance according to the EN204:2016 standard. To achieve a higher class, i.e., D3 or D4, it is necessary to use a crosslinked polymer. Crosslinking is usually performed using N-(hydroxymethyl)acrylamide monomer (NMA), UF resins, or glutaraldehyde. NMA contains and emits formaldehyde, which is poisonous and carcinogenic, so the chemical industry is trying to replace this substance with greener, formaldehyde-free, and eco-friendly substitutes, such as silanes, bio vinyl and acrylate monomers, or 2,5-diformylfuran. In this short review, we focus on demonstrating updated green approaches to developing wood adhesives and methods to eliminate the presence of unwanted substances such as formaldehyde. We present the technologies for producing PVAc step by step and the stages that need to be further investigated or improved.","PeriodicalId":54485,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Chemical Engineering","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147319463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A critical review of modeling hydrogen production using water electrolyzer 电解水制氢模型的综述

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Reviews in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-02-16 DOI: 10.1515/revce-2025-0049

Mahdi Alibeigi, Mehdi Mehrpooya, Prodip K. Das, Tohid N. Borhani

{"title":"A critical review of modeling hydrogen production using water electrolyzer","authors":"Mahdi Alibeigi, Mehdi Mehrpooya, Prodip K. Das, Tohid N. Borhani","doi":"10.1515/revce-2025-0049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/revce-2025-0049","url":null,"abstract":"The quest for effective hydrogen production through water electrolysis depends on the performance. Yet, making good models for performance improvement is naturally difficult because operation of an electrolyzer is both a multi-physics and multi-scale problem. Interaction of such complex phenomena across disparate spatial and temporal scales makes system design and optimization an extremely difficult task that indeed calls for advanced computational approaches. This review explores the application of recently developed computational methods to address such problems. Key methods examined include the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), response surface methodology (RSM), and artificial intelligence (AI) methods. Water electrolyzer simulations are dominated by two-phase liquid–gas models; the LBM is particularly effective for microscale flows and interfacial phenomena where surface effects are important, while Eulerian volume of fluid approaches are the most effective for treating bubble behavior. Briefly, optimal surrogate models for integrated systems are provided by empirical correlations and experiment design techniques (such as RSM). AI and hybrid AI-CFD techniques are making modeling and optimization easier and faster. For instance, DeepONet has predicted current density, oxygen mole fraction, and cell temperature with a root-mean-squared error of less than 1 %. This review concludes that LBM is a valuable tool for microscale multiphase dynamics and that AI-augmented CFD has proven capable of supplementing, and in certain situations, even replace conventional CFD workflows for the design and optimization of electrolyzers.","PeriodicalId":54485,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Chemical Engineering","volume":"244 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146205271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reviews in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-02-02 DOI: 10.1515/revce-2026-frontmatter2

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Reviews in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2026-01-03 DOI: 10.1515/revce-2026-frontmatter1

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Assessment techniques for scale inhibitors performance in laboratory and real field: a comprehensive review 实验室和实际领域阻垢剂性能评价技术综述

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Reviews in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2025-12-24 DOI: 10.1515/revce-2025-0035

Dalia E. Abd-El-Khaled, Mohamed El housse, Abdallah Hadfi, Ali Driouiche

{"title":"Assessment techniques for scale inhibitors performance in laboratory and real field: a comprehensive review","authors":"Dalia E. Abd-El-Khaled, Mohamed El housse, Abdallah Hadfi, Ali Driouiche","doi":"10.1515/revce-2025-0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/revce-2025-0035","url":null,"abstract":"The deposition of inorganic scales is a significant problem in the industrial sector and desalination plants. Due to the crucial importance of injecting chemical inhibitors to mitigate mineral scaling, several testing techniques have been developed to evaluate their performance. The evaluation methods used can be classified as electrochemical, non-electrochemical, or static and dynamic. However, to date, there has been no comprehensive review of the literature that exhaustively groups and compares these different approaches, highlighting their advantages, limitations, and complementarity. To fill this gap, this review outlines these evaluation methods and explores their suitability and limitations in different systems. Furthermore, the review examines whether laboratory evaluation techniques are suitable for use in the field. It covers the main methods established thus far, focusing on determining whether they represent a scaling formation process that occurs in real life. This study concluded that the type of scales precipitated and the field conditions influence the selection of the optimal evaluation method. Furthermore, the use of multiple experiments yields complementary information for a comprehensive study of scale crystallization and inhibition.","PeriodicalId":54485,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Chemical Engineering","volume":"127 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145822760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Engineering insights into thermal plasma processing for plastic waste management: a review 热等离子体处理在塑料废物管理中的工程应用综述

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Reviews in Chemical Engineering Pub Date : 2025-11-28 DOI: 10.1515/revce-2025-0012

Karan Sharma, Manishkumar D. Yadav, Abhishek Sharma, Subhankar Bhandari, Srikumar Ghorui, Jyeshtharaj B. Joshi

{"title":"Engineering insights into thermal plasma processing for plastic waste management: a review","authors":"Karan Sharma, Manishkumar D. Yadav, Abhishek Sharma, Subhankar Bhandari, Srikumar Ghorui, Jyeshtharaj B. Joshi","doi":"10.1515/revce-2025-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/revce-2025-0012","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid accumulation of plastic waste due to its non-biodegradability and increasing global consumption presents a significant environmental challenge. Conventional thermochemical waste management techniques, such as pyrolysis and gasification, offer partial solutions but suffer from secondary pollutant formation, inefficiencies, and scalability issues. Thermal plasma-assisted processes, operating at extreme temperatures of 1,500–5,000 °C, present a promising alternative by leveraging high-energy plasma arcs to achieve complete waste destruction, converting plastic into syngas and inert slag while minimizing hazardous by-products like dioxins and tars. Despite being studied over decades, the commercialization of plasma technologies remains limited due to high capital costs, proprietary technology barriers, and suboptimal reactor designs. The scalability of these systems depends on optimizing energy efficiency and feedstock adaptability, which can be addressed through advanced reactor design. This review systematically evaluates thermal plasma technology for plastic waste treatment through chemical engineering analysis of plasma-specific reaction kinetics under rapid heating conditions, coupled heat/mass modelling in high-temperature reactors, and computational optimization of torch configurations and reactor geometries. Key knowledge gaps are analyzed, including electrode erosion dynamics, plasma gas selection trade-offs, unaddressed radiation effects, and lack of thermal plasma-specific kinetic-modelling and experimentation, while presenting strategies to overcome these limitations through both modeling and experimental approaches.","PeriodicalId":54485,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in Chemical Engineering","volume":"145 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145610920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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