membrane separation
Barrier-based sorting process
Membrane separation is a process that uses a thin barrier to selectively filter components from a mixture—separating molecules, particles, or ions based on size, charge, or other properties.
The technique appears across industries: water purification, food processing, medical dialysis, and gas separation.
Membrane separation removes salt from seawater to produce drinking water.
- hollow fiberPermeable tube for separation
- diffusionPassive molecular spreading
- osmosisSolvent crossing semipermeable barrier
- reverse osmosisPressure-driven membrane filtration
- selectivityTendency to choose carefully
desalination · permeability · osmotic pressure · semipermeable · sieve · flux · porous · gradient · concentrate · purification · barrier · crossflow · salt removal · clean water · dialysis · thin film · wastewater treatment · water
- extractionmining, excavation, distillation, filtration, extraction
- gas processinggas plant, fractionation, processing plant, NGL, LPG
- purificationchromatography, centrifugation, filtration, electrophoresis, dialysis
- separation processesdistillation, filtration, centrifuge, sedimentation, decanting
- separation techniquesfiltration, distillation, centrifugation, chromatography, extraction
- Twin Complicationsconjoined twins, parasitic twin, mirror twins, selective reduction, chimera
membrane separationmixing
Combining into one mass
blending · combining · homogenization · uniting · amalgamation
membrane separationdistillation
Purification via vaporization
evaporation · crystallization · centrifugation · sedimentation · precipitation
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