Industrial Use
Certain features of membranes are responsible for the interest in using them as substitutes to consolidated industrial separation processes, like distillation, adsorption or extraction. Some advantages noted include:
- Less energy-intensive, since they do not require major phase changes
- Do not demand adsorbents or solvents, which may be expensive or difficult to handle
- Equipment simplicity and modularity, which facilitates the incorporation of more efficient membranes
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