Advances in Membrane Technology & Applications for Oil & Gas Industry

The commercial success of membrane technology is one indicator showing its importance in various applications. The benefits of membrane process applications include reduced operating costs relative to competitive technology, product savings, recovery of by-products, water, energy, chemicals savings, etc.

Similarly, membrane technology & applications for the Oil and gas Industry is become very important due to its application in many processes, such as effluent reduction applications, product separation such as hydrocarbon, gas separation, and oil emulsion separation.

Membrane processes are classified based on the diverse driving forces. Some of these processes rely on pressure differences, including microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis.

Meanwhile, others harness alternative driving forces, such as concentration differences in forward osmosis and for thermal gradients employed in membrane distillation and thermo osmosis and electric fields applied in electrodialysis.

In the proposed short-term course, we will focus on the major aspects of membrane technology for oil and gas industries, such as gas separation, oil and hydrocarbon separation, and wastewater treatment, with some aspect of life cycle analysis of these systems in the oil and gas industry context.

Broad Objectives:

In the proposed short-term course, we will focus on the major aspects of membrane technology, starting from the basic application of membrane technology for oil and gas industry, polymer chemistry for the membranes, ion exchange processes membranes for gas separation, oil-water separation, hydrocarbon separation, and membranes for desalination and wastewater treatment and how we can achieve zero liquid discharge by using membrane technology.

Furthermore, we will focus the session on the life cycle analysis of the membrane technology considering the energy demand and CO2 reduction.

By The End Of This Course, Participants Will Be Able To:

• Understanding of pressure-driven, concentration-driven, and thermal-driven membrane processes for the oil and gas industry

• Membranes for the gas separation: Fundamentals, fabrication, and processes

• Membranes for oil and hydrocarbon separation: Fundamentals, fabrication and processes

• Ion exchange membranes for oil and gas industry: Fundamentals, fabrication and processes

• Membranes for desalination and wastewater recycling: Fundamentals, fabrication and processes

• Life cycle analysis concept