A new approach could fractionate crude oil using much less energy In an advance that could dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed for crude oil fractionation, MIT engineers have developed a membrane that filters the components of crude oil by their molecular size “This is a whole new way of envisioning a separation process
MIT Chemical Engineers Develop New Way To Separate Crude Oil Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from the Cool Down: A team of chemical engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has invented a new process to separate crude oil components, potentially bringing forward a replacement that can cut its harmful carbon pollution by 90% The original technique, which uses heat to separate crude oil into gasoline, diesel, and heating
How to solve a bottleneck for CO2 capture and conversion New research could improve the efficiency of electrochemical carbon-dioxide capture and release by six times and cut costs by at least 20 percent Researchers added nanoscale filtering membranes
Custom-designed polymers open new path to electrochemical separations . . . Yuri Kappenberg, doctoral student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at Illinois, is the other co-first author on the study Collaborators include U of I chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Alex Mironenko and visiting chemistry professor Fabio Zazyki Galetto from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Brazil
A new way to swiftly eliminate micropollutants from water MIT chemical engineers create a zwitterionic hydrogel system for single-step water treatment with minimal environmental footprint Devashish Gokhale, a PhD student in the Doyle lab, works on a project aimed at using zwitterionic hydrogels to remove micropollutants from water