Importance of the Technology

The Technology in Brief

• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• Membrane Technologies
  • Polymeric Membranes
  • Ceramic Membranes
  • Liquid Membranes
  • Metal Membranes
  • Smart Membranes
  • Nanomaterials
  • Aerogels
  • Molecular Imprinting
• Membrane Characteristics
  • Membrane Configuration
  • Pore Sizes and Materials
• Separation Techniques
• Membrane Fouling

Commercial Development Parameters

• Demand Factors
• General Constraints
• Synergistic Technologies
• Competing Technologies
• Required Resources
• Regulatory Factors

Areas to Monitor

• Advanced Membrane Materials
• Advances in Biotechnology
• Advances in Medical Membranes
• Batteries
• Biomimetic Membranes
• Carbon Capture
• Desalination
• Fouling Resistance
• Fuel Cells
• Gas Separation
• LNG Storage
• Membrane Reactors
• Nanomaterial Membranes
• Petrochemicals
• Renewable Energy
• Shale Resource Production
• Smart Membranes
• Waste Heat to Power
• Wastewater Treatment
• Water Scarcity

Implications of Commercialization

Opportunities

• Water Applications
  • Desalination
  • Water Purification
  • Wastewater Processing
  • Oil- and Gas-Produced-Water Treatment
  • Point-of-Use Water Purification
  • Industry Structure
  • Commercial Opportunities
• Food and Agriculture Applications
  • Industry Structure
  • Commercial Opportunities
• Medical Applications
  • Industry Structure
  • Commercial Opportunities
• Gas-Separation Applications
  • Air Separation
  • Hydrogen Separation
  • Carbon Dioxide Separation
  • Industry Structure
  • Commercial Opportunities
• Chemical and Energy Applications
  • Chloralkali Industry
  • Industrial Water Use
  • Pervaporation
  • Light Olefin/Paraffin Separation
  • Industry Structure
  • Commercial Opportunities

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