New plastics have the potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and help purify water and CSIRO research leader Dr Anita Hill discusses this research in this vodcast. (2:20)
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CSIRO, through the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, in partnership with Hanyang University in Korea, the University of Texas, has developed a new membrane that mimics pores found in plants.
The development has applications in water, energy and climate change mitigation.
This video discusses the research, published in the October 2007 edition of Science, which describes the development of a new plastic membrane that is able to separate carbon dioxide from methane is important in natural gas processing and gas recovery from landfill.
This plastic will help solve problems of small molecule separation, whether related to:
This video discusses research in the development of a new plastic membrane able to separate carbon dioxide from methane.
- clean coal technology
- separating greenhouse gases
- increasing the energy efficiency of water purification
- producing and delivering energy from hydrogen.
Each of these 'small molecule separations' has impact on Australia’s interrelated issues of:
- water scarcity
- clean energy
- climate change mitigation.
Read more about the work of Water for a Healthy Country's Advanced membrane technologies for water treatment research cluster.
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