Organic Solvent Nanofiltration and Data-Driven Approaches

Abstract

Membranes are powerful, versatile separation tools, offering an energy lean alternative for traditional thermal separation methods. However, due to the complexity of this membrane process, influenced by all mutual solute-solvent-membrane interactions and properties, the transport mechanism is not well understood. This leads to a slow, trial-and-error based development process. To speed up the development process, and to try and understand the separation mechanism, we resort to data science.