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MIT Chemical Engineers Develop New Way To Separate Crude Oil
Friday June 20, 2025. 02:30 AM , from Slashdot
![]() 'Instead of boiling mixtures to purify them, why not separate components based on shape and size?' said Zachary P. Smith, associate professor of chemical engineering at MIT and senior author of the study, as previously reported in Interesting Engineering. The team invented a polymer membrane that divides crude oil into its various uses like a sieve. The new process follows a similar strategy used by the water industry for desalination, which uses reverse osmosis membranes and has been around since the 1970s. [The membrane excelled in lab tests. It increased the toluene concentration by 20 times in a mixture with triisopropylbenzene. It also effectively separated real industrial oil samples containing naphtha, kerosene, and diesel.] Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/06/19/2256256/mit-chemical-engineers-develop-new-way-to-separa...
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