“…Some examples for application of OSN to concentration and purification in industrial applications have been published previously. For instance, OSN was applied to the recovery and purification of pharmaceuticals [Cao et al, 2001;Marchetti et al, 2013;Sun et al, 2014], solvent exchange [Sheth et al, 2003], separation of base chemicals [Werhan et al, 2012;Othman et al, 2010], purification and concentration of consumer chemicals [Vanneste et al, 2011;Tsibranska and Tylkowski, 2013], concentration and purification of specialty chemicals [Tsui and Cheryan, 2007], and homogeneous catalyst recycle [Van der Gryp et al, 2010]. These studies showed the feasibility of OSN technologies in different industries at laboratory scale with flat sheet membranes or with 1.8"x12" spiral-wound membrane modules.…”