2nd International Conference and Expo on Separation Techniques September 26 - 28, 2016 Valencia, Spain

The Hyphenated Technique is developed by coupling of a separation technique and an on-line spectroscopic detection technology. The improvements in Hyphenated Analytical Methods over the decades have significantly broadened their applications in the analysis of biomaterials, mainly natural products. In this track recent advances in the applications of various hyphenated techniques, e.g., LC-FTIR, LC-NMR, CE-MS, GC-MS, LC-MS, etc. in the context of pre-isolation analyses of crude extracts or fractions from different natural sources, isolation and  detection of natural products, chemotaxonomic studies,  DNA fingerprinting, quality control of herbal medicine, de-replication of natural products, and metabolomics studies are included.

There is a broad growing worldwide interest in step change Separation Technologies, in key areas of physical sorption, distillation, membranes, absorption and heat exchange. Many of the innovative research activities are initiated by growing concern with environment (e.g. Co2 capture), equipment and energy cost, A number of new technologies find applications in neighboring processes. This new technologies include Industrial membrane filtration technology, Magnetic Separation Techniques in various fields, Cell Separation Techniques in microbiology, Distillation and filtration as separated techniques.

Liquid-liquid extraction is one of the mostly employed and useful techniques in pharmaceutical sample preparation. This is because of number of characteristics, including rapid method development, simplicity, and reasonable selectivity. Another one is Solid phase extraction is a technique designed for rapid, selective sample preparation and purification prior to chromatographic analysis. The process of Crystallization is also a chemical solid–liquid separation technique, in which mass transfer of a solute from liquid solution to a pure solid crystalline phase occurs. In chemical engineering the process of crystallization occurs in a crystallizer. Therefore, Crystallization is an aspect of precipitation, obtained by the variation of solubility conditions of solute in solvent, as compared to precipitation due to chemical reaction.

Chromatography is a method of separating compounds from a mixture. The technique is both preparative, analytical and is employed widely in laboratory as well as industrial standards. More than 70% of chemical analysis all over the world is done using Chromatography. It is a physical technique applied from basic organic chemistry to Forensic sciences. Some of the common applications include detection of cocaine in urine, alcohol in blood, PCB’s in fish, lead in water, etc. Chromatography is of various types-displacement chromatography, Paper chromatography, Thin layer chromatography, supercritical chromatography, expanded bed adsorption chromatography, liquid chromatography, Gas chromatography, Column fluid chromatography in various combinations.

High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) is a part of Separation Technique. It was formerly referred as high-pressure liquid chromatography, as a technique in analytical chemistry used to identify, separate, & quantify each component in mixture. It relies on pumps to pass the pressurized liquid solvent that contains the sample mixture through a column filled with a solid adsorbent material. Each component in the sample interacts slight differently with adsorbent material, thus cause different flow rates for the different components and lead to the separation of the components as they flow out the column. HPLC depends on pumps to pass pressurized liquid & sample mixture through column filled with a sorbent, leading to sample components separation.

Spectroscopy is study of materials interaction with light, generally through scattering, absorption, or transmission and is very powerful tool in material science.  The amount of material interaction depends on energy or wavelength of light and can provide a wealth of information about physical properties of those materials. The track session includes various spectroscopic techniques along with improved Hyphenated techniques developed using spectroscopy cover under it.

Separation Techniques are the part of separation science where separation of various mixtures is done .Mixtures come in many forms and phases. Most of them can be separated, and the kind of separation method depends on what kind of mixture it is. Thus, these Separation Techniques gain importance in different kinds of industries, different fields like Petroleum Industry, biotechnology, biochemical processes, forensic science, pharmaceutical industry, chemical industry.

Most of the materials in our surroundings are mixture of two or more components. Mixtures are either heterogeneous or homogeneous. Homogeneous mixtures are uniform in composition, but Heterogeneous mixtures are not uniform in composition. The choice of Separation Techniques is based on the mixture type and difference in the chemical properties of the constituents in mixture. This track include all the basic Separation Techniques like crystallization, distillation, centrifugation, filtration and other methods along with their advancements.

In the field of Chemical Engineering – separation process is the transfer of any mass that converts the substance mixture into distinctive product mixtures. “In some cases, a separation may fully divide the mixture into its pure constituents. Separations are carried out based on differences in chemical properties, or physical properties such as size, shape, mass, density, or chemical affinity, between the constituents of a mixture, and are often classified according to the particular differences they use to achieve separation