Development of Polymeric Membranes for Oil/Water Separation

Development of Palladium-Alloy Membranes for Hydrogen Separation and Purification

This paper summarizes R&D activities and progress at NORAM Engineering and the University of British Columbia (UBC) on preparation and testing of thin palladium-based membranes and their applications. Most of these activities were carried out internally at NORAM, some jointly with UBC and their spin-off company, Membrane Reactor Technology (MRT) through a wide range of projects. Key results out...

Practical Techniques for Improving the Performance of Polymeric Membranes and Processes for Protein Separation and Purification

Protein separation and purification technologies play an essential role in various industries including but not limited to pharmaceuticals, dairy as well as the food sector. Accordingly, a wide variety of techniques such as chromatography and electrophoresis has been developed and utilized extensively over the years for this purpose. Despite their widespread acceptance, conventiona...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

Functionalized Polymeric Membranes for CO2 Capture

Reducing CO2 emission and lowering the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has quickly become one of the most urgent environmental issues. While a variety of technologies and methods have been developed, the separation of CO2 from gas streams is still a critical issue. Apart from establishing new techniques, the exploration of membrane materials with high separation performance ...

Correlation of separation factor versus permeability for polymeric membranes

The separation of gases utlhzmg polymenc membranes has emerged mto a commercially utlhzed unit operation It has been recogmzed m the past decade that the separation factor for gas pairs vanes inversely with the permeablhty of the more permeable gas of the speclflc pair An analysis of the literature data for bmary gas mixtures from the hst of He, Hz, 02, Nz, CH4, and COz reveals an upper bound r...