Membrane technology has emerged as a cornerstone in modern separation processes, addressing challenges from water purification and desalination to the selective separation of complex chemical mixtures ...

A new collaboration between H2SITE and Petronor aims to demonstrate high-purity hydrogen production at refinery scale using ...

Named after the two-faced Roman god Janus to reflect its dual-purpose design, researchers present a novel membrane system – a Janus channel of membranes (JCM) – capable of simultaneously separating ...

Separating molecules is critical to producing many essential products. For example, in petroleum refining, the hydrocarbons – chemical compounds composed of hydrogens and carbons – in crude oil are ...

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking one-step, crystal growth process for making ultra-thin layers of material with molecular-sized pores. Researchers demonstrated the use of the material, ...

A membrane that separates organic solvent molecules based on their shape and size could dramatically cut costs associated with preparing valuable polymer feedstocks, such as p-xylene. It works as part ...

Toray Industries, Inc., announced that it has innovated a carbon dioxide (CO2) separation membrane with a dual all-carbon structure. This comprises a hollow fiber porous carbon fiber as a support and ...

A new synthetic method has been developed for producing molecularly designed polymer membranes that has the potential to make chemical separation processes up to two orders of magnitude more efficient ...

(Nanowerk News) Chemical separation processes are essential in the manufacturing of many products from gasoline to whiskey. Such processes are energetically costly, accounting for approximately 10–15 ...

Separation processes are essential elements of the technological foundations of the seven IOF industries included in this report. For the chemical and petroleum refining industries, separation ...

The U.S. petroleum processing industry refines 97 percent of the nation's transportation fuels and produces raw materials for other industries, such as the chemical industry. The petroleum refining ...