Nanofiltration Membranes for Extreme Industrial Conditions. KU Leuven
Developing polymer-based membranes for aqueous nanofiltration and for solvent resistant to significantly extend the range of streams that can be treated with current membranes.
Developing polymer-based membranes for aqueous nanofiltration and for solvent resistant to significantly extend the range of streams that can be treated with current membranes.
Vitamin E is essential in many biological processes, such as in immune system functions and in protecting against cell damage.
However, vitamin E blood levels are below the desirable value for a large part of the global population. Therefore, vitamin E is often synthesized as an additive dietary supplement. In this production process, toluene is used during the work-up of alpha-tocopherol, which is the most biologically active form of ...
Finding solutions to overcome water scarcity is a key challenge of the 21st century, given that half of the global population will live in water-stressed regions by 2050. One way to alleviate water scarcity is to desalinate sea and river waters through the use of membrane technology. Membranes are semipermeable materials through which water can pass, while salts and other dissolved compounds are rejected. State-of-the-art desalination ...
Desalination membranes have the potential to help alleviate the global water crisis as they allow the production of fresh water from saline or waste waters. Polyamide membranes have been the state of the art for 40 years, but have failed to expand to new application fields due to their limited chemical stability. A new generation of chemically robust, salt-rejecting membranes is thus highly desired for applications in harsh aqueous media ...
Membrane-technology is an emerging separation technology with excellent energy efficiency. However, most membrane materials developed to this day are focused on having good permeance but are not yet able to separate two molecules with very similar properties although this is a prerequisite for many industrial separations (e.g. separation of API from impurities). Therefore, this project aims specifically at developing membrane materials that ...