Understanding Filtration Behavior of Soft Components
- Persons involved: Ermia Azari Moghaddam, Rob Lammertink, Karin Schroën.
- Duration: 2024 – 2028
- Funding: EU Project Bio-GENTLE (https://www.bio-gentle.eu/)
Introduction
Filtration behavior of soft matter (gel particles, cells, droplets, etc.) is far from understood, despite their prevalence is significant in many industries, including pharmaceuticals and food industries. This project aims to bridge the gap between the current understanding of soft matter filtration and industry requirements, which in turn promote better quality and consistency in relevant industries.
Keywords
Soft particles, cake formation, mechanical properties, membrane-mimicking microfluidics
Technological challenges
Membrane science and technology allows selective, and safe separation of components without additional chemicals or very high pressures, which is crucial to the involved industries. This is, however, faced with challenges such as particle deformation, reducing selectivity, and cake formation and compression, severely hindering throughput.
Research goal
This project aims to find the relevance of particle mechanical properties to filtration processes. This will serve as a starting point for membrane process design for soft matter filtration.
