Researchers list 'seven chemical separations to change the world'

Wednesday, April 27, 2016 - 11:21 in Physics & Chemistry

Thermally-based industrial chemical separation processes such as distillation now account for 10 to 15 percent of the world's annual energy use. Slaking the global thirst for energy could therefore get a substantial boost from improved technologies for producing fuels, plastics, food and other products with reduced inputs of energy.

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