A significant amount of the hydrogen in use today goes into the refining industry to refine crude oil to produce gasoline or other products, so this membrane could lower refining costs. |
Our team originally set out to design membranes to purify hydrogen produced from coal. We felt that a good improvement would be to design membranes more permeable to impurities than to hydrogen. |
The best you can do in terms of pressurization for any of these processes is make hydrogen at or near feed pressure. |