Industrial gases industry separation power changes

Membrane-based technologies have become the industry standard for the ultrapure water systems in the semiconductor, pharmaceutical, and power industries. The seminal discovery that changed membrane separation from a laboratory to an industrial process was the development, in the early 1960s, of the Loeb-Sourtrajan process for making defect-free, high-flux, anisotropic reverse osmosis membranes (Loeb and Sourirajan, 1963). The most important development in the 1980s was the innovation of industrial membrane gas separation process. 

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