To make natural gas and biogas suitable for use, the methane has to be separated from the carbon dioxide. This involves the use of membranes: filters that stop the methane and let the CO2 pass through ...

Hydrogen is one of the most abundant elements on Earth and an exceptionally clean fuel source. While it is making its way into the fuel cells of electric cars, busses and heavy equipment, its ...

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 ...

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, ...

Founded by MIT and Stanford PhDs, the startup offers cost-effective, climate-friendly technology to purify key molecules for alternative energy production Osmoses has developed a patented novel ...

(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 ...

(Nanowerk News) Chemical engineers at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have demonstrated for the first time that an atom-thick graphene membrane can separate gas mixtures with a ...

Toray Industries has reported a major reduction in biogas purification costs following a one-year trial of its all-carbon ...