MemLab www.memlab.no at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences offers expertise in selective membrane separation.

We study how membrane structure, surface charge, ion complexation, concentration polarisation and multicomponent solution chemistry control the separation of chemically similar ions. We can contribute nanofiltration, diafiltration and electromembrane process development; membrane and solution characterisation; mechanistic transport analysis; design of experiments; and data-driven performance modelling.

Our preferred contribution is a defined work package on selective recovery or purification of critical metals from a real secondary aqueous stream. The work would connect feed chemistry to membrane selectivity, productivity, chemical demand and energy use, and would provide design rules for integration into a wider recovery process. We are particularly interested in streams for which selective separation is a present bottleneck rather than a speculative future application.

MemLab www.memlab.no is the membrane research laboratory at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). We study artificial membranes and separation processes for clean water and critical resources. Our research combines chemical engineering, membrane science, interfacial and colloid science, electrochemistry, environmental engineering and data science.

We investigate how pore structure, surface charge, electrostatic interactions, concentration polarisation and multicomponent solution chemistry govern transport and selectivity. Our expertise includes nanofiltration, electromembrane processes, diafiltration, electrochemical oxidation of persistent micropollutants, membrane characterisation, mechanistic modelling, experimental design and data-driven analysis of membrane performance.

We can contribute laboratory and process studies, quantitative transport analysis, membrane and module testing, data analytics and doctoral training. We are interested in consortia that connect mechanistic science to industrially and environmentally relevant separations, particularly critical-material recovery, treatment of persistent micropollutants, resource-efficient biorefinery separations and adaptive water treatment.