Oxidatively Stable Membranes for Efficient Acid Gas Separation
TS-074913 —
Energy and chemical industries increasingly rely on hydrogen, natural gas, and syngas streams that require efficient removal of CO₂ and H₂S to meet purity and regulatory requirements. Conventional separation technologies (e.g., amine absorption, adsorption, cryogenic distillation) are energy-i…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Ho, W.S.
Winston; Salim, Witopo; Vakharia, Varun
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
High‑Flux Nanocomposite Polyamide Membranes for Advanced Water Separation
TS-074143 —
Across desalination, water reuse, and other separation markets, operators continue to face a fundamental tradeoff between membrane permeability and selectivity. Existing commercial polyamide membranes often sacrifice water flux to achieve high salt rejection, driving higher energy consumption, inc…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Ho, W.S.
Winston
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Hybrid Membrane–Adsorption Process for Efficient Direct Air Capture
TS-073184 —
Direct air capture (DAC) technologies are essential for meeting global carbon‑reduction goals, yet most current systems remain limited by high energy demand, high cost, and materials with insufficient stability. Traditional solid‑sorbent DAC approaches require significant thermal input for reg…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Ho, W.S.
Winston; Han, Yang; Huang, Yi-Chen
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Fuel Cell-Enabled CO2-to-CO Conversion Using Ultra-Selective Membrane Technology
TS-072615 — The Need
Efficient carbon dioxide (CO₂) utilization and separation remain critical challenges in energy, chemical, and environmental sectors. Existing processes for CO₂ conversion to carbon monoxide (CO) and for separating CO₂/CO mixtures are energy-intensive, costly, and often lack selectivit…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Ho, W.S.
Winston; Han, Yang
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
3-Stage Membrane Processes for CO2 Capture from Flue Gases
TS-069650 — The Need
The urgent need to mitigate climate change has driven the demand for efficient carbon capture technologies. Current methods often fall short in achieving high capture rates and purity levels, especially for industrial applications. This technology addresses the critical need for a scalable…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Han, Yang; Ho, W.S.
Winston
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Amine-Containing Facilitated Transport Membranes For Carbon Dioxide/Nitrogen Separation
TS-041856 — Novel membrane technology utilizing active transport for carbon dioxide/nitrogen separation. The membrane exhibits high permeance and selectivity
Improved separation of by-product carbon dioxide from nitrogen in power plants and industrial exhaust systems would considerably decrease greenhouse gas emissions. The current method of separation that is most often used in industry is amine absorption, however this method is costly, has a large c…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Ho, W.S.
Winston; Han, Yang
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
2 Stage Hybrid Membrane Process for CO2 Capture from Flue Gas in Power Plants
TS-037391 — A 2-stage enriching cascade membrane process for capturing CO2 from flue gas in a power plant wit
hout air sweep
Post-combustion carbon capture (PCC) provides an option to mitigate CO2 emissions from large stationary sources, followed by compression, transport, and geological sequestration; the captured CO2 may be used for enhanced oil recovery. Because of the system compactness and energy efficiency, CO2-se…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Ho, W.S.
Winston; Han, Yang
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Amine-Containing Membranes Incorporated with Carbon Nanotubes or CO2 Separation
TS-037297 — A novel amine-containing membrane incorporated with carbon nanotubes for CO2/N2 separation with a vacuum pulled on the permeate side
CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has surpassed 400 ppm in the past decade. The combustion of fossil fuels is a major contributor to the large amount of CO2 emission, and membrane technologies have been suggested as a promising approach to capture CO2 from large stationary sources (e.g., flue ga…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Ho, W.S.
Winston; Han, Yang
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Borate-Containing Membranes for Gas Separation
TS-032351 — Highly efficient membranes that can facilitate effective carbon dioxide capture that can be used to purify industrial gases such as natural gas, syngas, and hydrogen
Membranes are a cost-effective and energy-efficient solution for the separation of carbon dioxide from methane and industrial flue gas. In addition, membranes are utilized to purify hydrogen and syngas. Increased global utilization of natural gas has necessitated efficient natural gas purification…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Ho, W.S.
Winston; Salim, Witopo; Vakharia, Varun
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Polyvinylamine/Amino acid Salt Membranes for CO2 Separation
TS-015274 — A novel met
hod for synthesizing polyvinylamine/amino acid salt membranes with increased stability, CO2 permeance, and CO2 selectivity
Facilitated transport membranes utilize fixed carriers, such as Polyvinylamine (PVAm), and mobile carriers to provide high CO2 permeance and maintain a high CO2/N2 selectivity compared to solution-diffusion membranes. Current production methods of commercial PVAm introduce many problems that can d…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Ho, W.S.
Winston; Chen, Yuanxin
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana