Principles and applications of solvent sublation - a review

This article reviews more than 50 references covering the solvent sublation as one of the adsorptive bubble separation methods for organic and inorganic coumpounds removal from aqueous solutions, which were published last 50 years. The solvent sublation is very simple, effective and fast process for removal and separation of chemical compounds from dilute aqueous solutions and can be treated as preconcentration method in their analytical determination. This review concerns the fundamentals of solvent sublation process and desribes the factors determinating the process (temperature, composition of initial aqueous solution, pH, ionic strength, surfactants and ligands presence, organic solvent presence with additives and gas bubble generation). The examples of metal ions selective removal (Table 1) and organic coupounds removal (Table 2) are shown.