Separations Research

Research in separations technology has a long and rich history at the University of Texas. Current efforts center around the activities of the Separations Research Program. (UT-SRP). The program is supported by over 30 industrial sponsors and a wide cross-section of governmental funding organizations. The UT-SRP effort and associated projects bring the financial support for separations technology at UT to well over $ 2.5mm.

The program is one of the most diverse separations research efforts in the country, if not the world. Eight faculty members in the Department of Chemical Engineering participate, with collaborators in the various departments at UT and at a host of major universities worldwide. Research is conducted in a wide cross-section of separations technologies including; distillation, liquid-liquid extraction, adsorption, membrane separations, separations via chemical reactions, and supercritical fluid processes. It could be argued that the UT program contains the foremost collection of separations expertise in the world.

Faculty
Thomas F. Edgar
Bruce R. Eldrige
Benny Freeman
Douglas R. Lloyd
Charles B. Mullins
Gary T. Rochelle
Isaac C. Sanchez

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