Half of all people on earth experience severe water scarcity at least one month out of the year, according to the UN.

A radical new kind of desalination technology is finally on the cusp of helping to slake the world’s thirst. The pitch: Put desalination plants on the ocean floor. First proposed in the early 1960s, ...

MIT researchers have developed a new membrane that separates various types of fuel by molecular size, potentially eliminating ...

This solution addresses common membrane fouling and sanitization challenges, delivering outstanding results that enable ...

Most people assume the water flowing from their tap is clean. It’s been treated, filtered, and regulated — surely that’s ...

Because of the microscopic pores on the semi-permeable membrane filter, reverse osmosis can not only remove the obvious, visual contaminants such as sediment and larger organic material ...

A newer generation of reverse osmosis desalination plants, which run the water through an array of plastic membranes, have cut the energy demand a little, but it’s not enough. It still takes a ...

This process catches nearly every contaminant; reverse osmosis works by pushing water through a microscopically small filter material. This semi-permeable membrane has a pore size of around 0.0001 ...

Roughly 1 percent of global energy use goes into separating crude oil into gasoline, diesel, and heating oil. That, in turn, ...

Separating crude oil into products such as gasoline, diesel, and heating oil is an energy-intensive process that accounts for ...