Fine Chemical Engineering

ISSN: 2717-5677 (Print) 2717-5685 (Online) Description

Fine Chemical Engineering is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal which is semi-yearly published online. It is an essential journal for chemical engineers, chemists, biologists, materials and environmental scientists, physicists and other researchers in cross-disciplinary areas, which represents the cutting-edge research on fine chemicals, and promotes the development of science and technology, optimization strategies, analysis, applications and life-cycle scrutiny of such chemicals. See more topics...

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High Pressure-Driven Batch Distillation Optimal Control for Methylacetate-Methanol Separation

by Marija Stojkovic

ABSTRACT: The pressure-swing distillation process with high-pressurized batch columns (HHP), with and or without a recycling stream, for separating methyl acetate-methanol is studied from the aspect of...

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Investigation and Health Risk Assessment of Nitrate ion, Nitrite ion, and Phthalate Esters in Herbal Distillates Produced by Iranian Companies

by Mahdi Ghorbani, Parisa Mohammadi, Majid Keshavarzi, Maryam Pakseresht, Mahdi Mardanpour Fariman, Mohadeseh Baburian

ABSTRACT: The concentrations of nitrate ion, nitrite ion, nitrosamines, and phthalate esters in the ten herbal distillates, including rose, caraway seed, cumin seed, fumitory, carum, fenugreek, chicory,...

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Solubility Modeling of Some Chlorophenols in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

by Garlapati Mahesh, Chandrasekhar Garlapati

ABSTRACT: The basic information required to implement any supercritical processes is solubility. The solubility data is correlated with various models. For binary systems (solute-solvent), solubility data...

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A Multi-step High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Technique for the Extraction and Purification of Medical-Grade Cyclosporine A

by Eliasu Issaka, Jesse Nii Okai Amu-Darko, Mabruk Adams, Sylvenus Aguree, Michael Enyan, Husseini Sulemana, Princess Firdaus Suleimana

ABSTRACT: Cyclosporine A (CsA), a potent immunosuppressive drug, is used to treat autoimmune diseases and prevent organ transplant recipients from rejecting their new organs. Maintaining CsA's uniformity...

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Enhancing Antibiotic Efficacy: Exploring Synergistic Interactions between Plant Extracts and Conventional Antibiotics

by Addai-Mensah Donkor, Benjamin Ahenkorah, Abdallah Yakubu, Martin Ntiamoah Donkor

ABSTRACT: Medicinal herbs including Senna alata, Ricinus communis, and Lannea barteri have been utilized for centuries to cure a variety of illnesses caused by microbial infections. This study looked at...

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Photodegradation of Ghana Crude Oil by Sunlight Irradiation

by Boakye Danquah, Marian Asantewah Nkansah, Tanja Barth

ABSTRACT: Photochemical degradation of crude oil in seawater is critical in the protection of the marine environment during oil spillages. In this study, the photochemical weathering of Ghana Crude Oil...

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NH2-modification Copper Metal-organic Framework as a Sunlight Photocatalyst for the Removal of Organic Dyes from Aqueous Solution

by Qi Wang, Qianqian Xu, Jiawei Zhang, Long Fang, Kai Xia, Deshuai Sun

ABSTRACT: Dyes present in wastewater pose a threat to aquatic organisms and cannot be effectively eliminated by conventional biochemical treatment methods. As an alternative, the photocatalytic...

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Acid Induced Phytoconstituents of Calotropis procera Extract Combined with Ampicillin in Combating Clinical Resistant Isolates of Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella spp.

by Mathew Gideon, Zakari Ladan, Yahaya Yakubu

ABSTRACT: Natural products, with their inherent diversity, offer unique pharmacophores, chemotypes, and scaffolds that can be harnessed to create effective drugs targeting various infections and diseases....

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A Discussion on the Nonexistence of Negative pH and pH > 14

by Bijan K. Paul

ABSTRACT: The main objective of this article is focused on a discussion on the range of pH which is defined to be 0 ≤ pH ≤ 14. However, ambiguities surrounding the range of pH still persist in the...