Tailor-made membranes offer a cleaner method for the industrial-scale separation of chemical mixtures, says Suzana Nunes. But first we need to make their manufacture greener. Porous polymeric ...

Industry separates crude oil, natural gas and chemical mixtures into pure products by means of fractionating distillation columns. This process is energy-intensive, but a new type of column structure ...

Postnova Analytics has published an applications report that presents data from a collaboration with the Analytical Development group at Biogen Inc. on separation of a virus mixture using Asymmetrical ...

In general, liquid-liquid extraction is applied where alternative separation technologies such as distillation are uneconomical, or even unsuitable. Typical examples: Simultaneous separation of ...

Several industries require essential processes for separating mixtures into their constituent substances. Advancing research, scientists from Japan have now developed a novel, versatile, and ...

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A polymer separation membrane has been developed that selectively allows carbon dioxide to pass through with simple heat treatment. It is expected to dramatically reduce the expense of carbon dioxide ...