Carbon, hydrogen, and rare earth minerals are central to a sustainable energy future. We develop membrane systems that can be used to separate, purify, and manage these critical energy resources.
Our work on energy recovery ventilation, has also spun-off the novel concept of using gradients of CO2 and other exhaust gradients to generate power.
S. Moussaddy and J. Maisonneuve, "Energy from carbon dioxide: Experimental and theoretical analysis of power generation from membrane-based sweep gas permeation," Journal of Membrane Science 644 (2022).
S. Moussaddy, G. Yuan, and J. Maisonneuve, “A new concept for generating mechanical work from gas permeation,” Journal of Membrane Science 614 (2020).
Fresh air ventilation is essential to maintaining a healthy indoor environment, but it is energetically expensive. We have partnered with electric utilities and industry to develop energy recovery devices for building ventilation.
G. Lekshminarayanan, M. Croal, and J. Maisonneuve, “Recovering latent and sensible energy from building exhaust with membrane-based energy recovery ventilation,” Science and Technology for the Built Environment 26 (2020).
jonathan.maisonneuve@mcgill.ca