“…Recovery of organic acids from dilute solutions resulting from fermentation processes is important, and many solvents have been tried in attempts to improve recovery (Upchurch and Van Winkle, 1952;Correa et al, 1989;Sayar et al, 1991;Kirk and Othmer, 1992;Dramur and Tatlõ, 1993;Briones et al, 1994;Arce et al, 1995;Fahim et al, 1996;Fahim et al, 1997;Sólimo et al, 1997;Colombo et al, 1999;Aljimaz et al, 2000;Taghikhani et al 2001).…”