US Patent Issued to UT-BATTELLE on May 20 for "Solar-thermal membrane for dewatering aqueous organic-acid solutions" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,834, issued on May 20, was assigned to UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Solar-thermal membrane for dewatering aqueous organic-acid solutions" was invented by Gyoung Gug Jang (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Michael Z. Hu (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Constantinos Tsouris (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar-thermal vapor-permeation membrane is provided. The solar-thermal vapor-permeation membrane includes a thermally conductive, microporous support layer having a feed surface, and an active separation layer adjacent the feed surface of the support layer. The support layer is capable of absorbing solar-thermal radiation. Utilizati...