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Career: A New Class Of Modified Mesoporous Silica Membranes With Controlled Pore Size And Surface Functionalization Through Unique Synthetic Approaches, William J. Desisto
Career: A New Class Of Modified Mesoporous Silica Membranes With Controlled Pore Size And Surface Functionalization Through Unique Synthetic Approaches, William J. Desisto
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
Artificial membranes made from sand-like materials known as silica are potentially more energy efficient than other separation processes such as distillation (change in phase from liquid to gas) because there is no phase change required to perform the separation. In addition, the opportunity exists for combining reaction and separation within a single unit using membrane reactors, thereby increasing yield on thermodynamically-limited reactions. However, the fabrication of high-quality silica membranes with pore size control and surface chemistry control remains challenging because of the inherent limits of existing synthetic approaches used to fabricate silica membranes. The researchers at the University of Maine …
Goali: Multicomponent Molecular Transport In Nanoporous Materials, Douglas M. Ruthven, David Sholl, Ronald Chance
Goali: Multicomponent Molecular Transport In Nanoporous Materials, Douglas M. Ruthven, David Sholl, Ronald Chance
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
In recent years novel diffusion controlled catalytic processes and non-conventional separation processes such as adsorption and membrane processes have gained an increasingly important place in the petroleum and petrochemicals industries. Several factors have driven this trend, including the need to improve the energy efficiency and throughput of refineries, stricter limits on the allowable composition of gasoline and diesel fuel requiring the removal of aromatics and sulfur containing compounds to extremely low levels, the need to process increasingly complex deposits of both natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons, and the possibility of producing liquid fuels from non-traditional sources such as biomass. Although …