“…Thus, the simplest liquid-liquid extraction configuration is sufficient for purifying the PTA wastewater, and the PT acid does not need to be recovered from the extractant after NDSE. With the advantages of no emulsification and high extraction efficiency (Pabby and Sastre, 2013), NDSE has been used in many applications, including the chemical separation of pesticides (Đorđević et al, 2014), bisphenol A (Gupta et al, 2014), toluene (Barati et al, 2014), fermentation products , zinc chloride and hydrochloric acid (Lum et al, 2014), 1-butanol and acetone (Moreno et al, 2014), cephalexin (Hao et al, 2014), Co (Vernekar et al, 2013), Lu (Kumrić et al, 2012), U (Dixit et al, 2013), Zn (Samaniego et al, 2007), and Cu (Ren et al, 2008). However, there have been no published studies of NDSE applied to PTA wastewater.…”