Membrane Materials and Processes
The chair Membrane Materials and Processes of Eindhoven University of Technology focuses on the multidisciplinary topic of the design and development of polymer membranes to separate molecular mixtures for sustainable processes.
Molecular membrane design to control mass transfer in sustainable process applications
In our research we aim at tailoring membrane chemistry and morphology to control mass transport in macroscopic applications and combines and integrates material science and process technology. New and modified polymers serve as building blocks in membrane development. Produced membranes will be applied in sustainable process applications or combined with other unit operations, e.g. reaction and separation. Application studies provide direct input and directions for membrane structure optimization and for modification or chemical functionalization of polymer chemistry. Next to fundamental academic research, valorization and application-oriented research in close collaboration with the process and manufacturing industry is carried out.
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Our Staff
The three of us started the chair Membrane Materials and Processes. I think we can be proud of the result and we can feel secure about our future.
Kitty Nijmeijer
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Our projects
Sanaz Abbasi - Membrane development and performance study in Hydrogen-Bromine flow batteries
Emad Al-Dhubhani - Development of membranes for the Acid-base flow (blue) battery (ABFB)
Anna Casimiro - Membranes for the removal of micropollutant for drinking water production
Benjamin Chatillon - Performance and stability improvement of multilayered membranes for salts and micropollutants removal
Gijs Doornbusch - Low energy seawater desalination using electrodialysis
Machiel van Essen - Mixed matrix membranes for gas separation
Menno Houben - Membrane development for biogas upgrading
Yohanes Hugo - Membrane development for large-scale hydrogen-bromine flow batteries
Remy Jacquemond - Ion exchange membranes as separators in all-organic redox flow-batteries
Joey Kloos - Membranes for the selective recovery of ionic species and nutrients
Sjoukje Lubach - Forward Osmosis: Membrane and Module development and process applications (FOMM)
Pelin Oymaci Akin - Development of membranes for forward osmosis applications in food processing
Diego Pintossi - Membrane design for fouling control in reverse electrodialysis
Cees Weijers - Power to Gas
Our Research Areas
Research is dedicated to the development, characterization and application of polymeric membranes in two major technological application areas, Energy and Water, but also involves research at the interface of both, e.g. energy from water or membranes for dairy and food products and processes, or biotechnology and biorefinery applications.
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Andrew Shamu,Henk Miedema,Zandrie Borneman,Kitty Nijmeijer
Dehydration of supercritical carbon dioxide using dense polymeric membranes
Separation and Purification Technology (2019) -
G.J. Doornbusch,M. Tedesco,J. W. Post,Z. Borneman,K. Nijmeijer
Experimental investigation of multistage electrodialysis for seawater desalination
Desalination (2019) -
Reza Behrou,Alberto Pizzolato,Antoni Forner-Cuenca
Topology optimization as a powerful tool to design advanced PEMFCs flow fields
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (2019) -
Zeljka P. Madzarevic,Salman Shahid,Kitty Nijmeijer,Theo J. Dingemans
The role of ortho-, meta- and para-substitutions in the main-chain structure of poly(etherimide)s and the effects on CO2/CH4 gas separation performance
Separation and Purification Technology (2019) -
Andrew Shamu,Marije Dunnewold,Henk Miedema,Zandrie Borneman,Kitty Nijmeijer
Permeation of supercritical CO2 through dense polymeric membranes
Journal of Supercritical Fluids (2019)
Membrane Innovation Centre Eindhoven
The MIC/e is your academic partner that makes academic knowledge better accessible by bridging the gap between fundamental research and industrial valorization of this knowledge.
Student opportunities
Education of students and researchers in the field of separation technology and more specifically membrane technology is one of the core activities of our group. As such we teach several Bachelor and Master courses, offer extensive opportunities for students that would like to do a Bachelor or Master assignment or an internship on membranes. Also, several membrane lectures for the general public are available.
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Our Facilities
Our group is fully operational with dedicated equipment in place for, among others, hollow fiber and flat sheet membrane production, for low and high pressure and low and high temperature gas and vapor separation, including hazardous minority components, gas sorption, membrane pore size and pore size distribution characterization, ultrafiltration, microfiltration and forward osmosis membrane characterization and filtration, Scanning Electron Microscopy including EDS, ion exchange membrane characterization.
Contact
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Visiting address
Helix (Blg14, STO 0.44)Het Kranenveld5612 AZ EindhovenNetherlands -
Postal address
Department of Chemical Engineering and ChemistryP.O. Box 5135600 MB EindhovenNetherlands -
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