Membranes
Osmoses (osmoses.com), a spinoff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; both Cambridge, Mass.; www.mit.edu), has raised an oversubscribed $11-million seed round led by Energy Capital Ventures. Osmoses will use the funding to develop commercial-scale membrane modules for field deployment and establish pilot partnerships. The company also recently a $1.5-million grant from the U.S. Dept. of Energy, as well as additional grant support from ARPA-E and NSF, among other organizations.
Osmoses has developed a patented membrane technology that purifies gas molecules with “unprecedented” flux and selectivity — even for gases of similar size (for more details, see Chem. Eng., May 2022, pp. 8–9).