“…The low concen-tration combined with the high boiling point and high hydrophilicity make the recovery of PDO from water a great challenge resulting in high process costs due to the large amount of energy required to remove the water through traditional methods, such as, for example, by distillation. Many separation methods have already been proposed in an attempt to make the process more economically attractive, such as chromatography, [8][9][10][11][12] electrodialysis, 13,14 reactive extraction, [15][16][17][18][19][20] solvent extraction (liquid-liquid extraction), 21,22 salting-out (repulsive extraction), 23 salting-out extraction (SOE), [24][25][26][27][28] membrane filtration, 29,30 and distillation. 31 However, in addition to the energy expenditure, each of these processes have serious disadvantages that make unappealing for large scale implementation.…”