Advancing membrane technology in organic liquids towards a sustainable future

IF 27.1 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI:10.1038/s41893-025-01570-4

Jihoon Kim, Jeong F. Kim, Zhiwei Jiang, Andrew G. Livingston

{"title":"Advancing membrane technology in organic liquids towards a sustainable future","authors":"Jihoon Kim, Jeong F. Kim, Zhiwei Jiang, Andrew G. Livingston","doi":"10.1038/s41893-025-01570-4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Membrane technology holds enormous potential for reducing the energy consumption of various separation processes. It is of particular importance for energy-intensive industrial separation processes in organic liquids, such as crude oil fractionation. Most recent developments have focused on identifying ground-breaking materials that provide outstanding stability and rapid separation. However, the sustainability implications of such performance optimizations remain unclear. This Review aims to highlight how membrane technology can drive sustainability and steer industries towards a sustainable future. In particular, it provides perspectives on promising materials, manufacturing processes and industrial applications with respect to energy saving, process intensification and environmental impacts. This Review highlights how membrane technology can drive sustainability and steer industries towards a sustainable future, providing perspectives on materials, manufacturing processes and applications with respect to energy saving, process intensification and environmental impacts.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"8 6","pages":"594-605"},"PeriodicalIF":27.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature Sustainability","FirstCategoryId":"93","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-025-01570-4","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Membrane technology holds enormous potential for reducing the energy consumption of various separation processes. It is of particular importance for energy-intensive industrial separation processes in organic liquids, such as crude oil fractionation. Most recent developments have focused on identifying ground-breaking materials that provide outstanding stability and rapid separation. However, the sustainability implications of such performance optimizations remain unclear. This Review aims to highlight how membrane technology can drive sustainability and steer industries towards a sustainable future. In particular, it provides perspectives on promising materials, manufacturing processes and industrial applications with respect to energy saving, process intensification and environmental impacts. This Review highlights how membrane technology can drive sustainability and steer industries towards a sustainable future, providing perspectives on materials, manufacturing processes and applications with respect to energy saving, process intensification and environmental impacts.

Abstract Image

查看原文本刊更多论文

推动膜技术在有机液体中的应用，迈向可持续发展的未来

膜技术在降低各种分离过程的能耗方面具有巨大的潜力。它对有机液体的能源密集型工业分离过程特别重要，例如原油分馏。最近的发展集中在确定具有卓越稳定性和快速分离的突破性材料上。然而，这种性能优化的可持续性影响仍然不清楚。这篇综述旨在强调膜技术如何推动可持续发展，并引导工业走向可持续发展的未来。特别是，它提供了关于有前途的材料，制造工艺和工业应用方面的节能，工艺强化和环境影响的观点。这篇综述强调了膜技术如何推动可持续发展并引导工业走向可持续发展的未来，从材料、制造工艺和应用方面提供了节能、工艺强化和环境影响的观点。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Nature Sustainability Energy-Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

CiteScore

41.90

自引率

1.10%

发文量

159

期刊介绍： Nature Sustainability aims to facilitate cross-disciplinary dialogues and bring together research fields that contribute to understanding how we organize our lives in a finite world and the impacts of our actions. Nature Sustainability will not only publish fundamental research but also significant investigations into policies and solutions for ensuring human well-being now and in the future.Its ultimate goal is to address the greatest challenges of our time.