Smart Separations - a novel microfiltration system for air purification and emissions control

智能分离公司正在开发一种专有的微过滤器技术，通过以受控的方式改变孔径大小，可以轻松地定制以满足多种不同的需求。在许多不同的市场和应用中，孔径的规律性是一个独特的卖点。基于这项技术的新型过滤器具有很高的创新性，潜在的商业破坏性很高。化学工业正在遭受过时的工艺的影响，这些工艺用于清洁、净化和过滤废气。这些气体排放通常通过洗涤净化，通常依靠有毒有机溶剂来溶解化学过程中产生的颗粒和其他气体和分子。主要的障碍是在这个过程中使用了数以千计的有毒有机溶剂和/或处理过的水，这导致了更高的环境风险，以及对清洁和回收溶剂和水的能源需求的大幅增加。继非常成功的TSB市场证明奖之后，该公司已经确定了该技术在净化空气和大幅减少碳和其他温室气体(GHG)排放方面的应用，例如在汽车尾气和工业过程中。智能分离现在希望证明过滤概念。因此，这项概念验证拨款将允许开发一系列初步的、基本的预原型过滤产品，随后将进行空气净化和排放的专业实验室测试。这一阶段的拨款将有助于利用市场研究证明的积极结果，并允许概念演示提供技术可行性的基本证明。到今年(2015)，工业洗涤器、吸收器、吸附器和生物过滤系统的世界市场将达到43亿GB。焚烧是最大的单一市场，我们计划首先解决这个问题。我们的技术有可能通过改造和简化和/或降低实施成本来颠覆和扩大市场潜力

Smart Separations is developing a proprietary microfilter technology that can be easilytailored to suit many different needs by varying the pore size in a controlled manner. Theregularity of the pore size is a unique selling point in many different markets and applications.New filters based on this technology are highly innovative and potentially highlycommercially disruptive.The chemical industry is suffering from out-dated processes to clean, purify and filter theirexhaust fumes. These gas emissions are usually cleaned through scrubbing, which typicallyrelies on toxic organic solvents to dissolve particles and other gases and molecules resultantfrom the chemical processes. The main hurdle is that thousands of tons of toxic organicsolvents and/or treated water are being used in this process, leading to higher environmentalrisks and a huge increase in energy requirements to clean and recycle both the solvents andthe water.Following a very successful TSB Proof of Market award, the company has identified anapplication of the technology in cleaning air and heavily reducing carbon and othergreenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, such as in car exhaust fumes and industrial processes.Smart separations now wishes to prove the filtration concept. This Proof of Concept grant willthus allow the development of a series of initial, basic pre-prototype filtration products,followed by specialist laboratory testing of air purification and emissions. The grant at thisstage would help leverage the positive results from the Proof of Market study and allow forconcept demonstration to provide basic proof of technical feasibility. The world market forindustrial scrubber, absorber, adsorber and biofilter systems will reach £4.3bn by this year(2015). Incineration is the largest single market, which we plan to tackle first. Our technologyhas the potential to disrupt and expand the market potential through retrofitting and bysimplifying and/or reducing implementation costs