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4. Commercialization
One of the primary limitations to commercialization of biobased products is the high cost
of isolating the desired products. Accordingly, development of advanced separation
technologies should be an integral part of a comprehensive program for reducing costs and
encouraging commercialization. Affinity-based separations, environmentally-benign
extractions, and membrane separations hold the promise of operating at low temperatures and
thereby reducing the demand for expensive energy presented by thermal separation processes
such as distillation. Currently, fouling, other flux limitations, and sub-optimal selectivities
limit the larger scale deployment of the more sustainable separation techniques, with the
implication that research should focus on these areas.
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