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Separation Engineering Lab
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The lab keeps what is needed pure and removes what is harmful.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating new separation methods
The Separation Engineering Lab (Sano Lab) aims to establish advanced separation engineering.
Separation technology is used in processes such as chemical manufacturing to purify materials and remove impurities and harmful substances.
The lab develops separation operations and equipment based on various principles, including adsorption, drying, electric fields, and biological processes.
It also studies applying new nanomaterials such as carbon nanohorns to separation, and process technologies for freezing and drying foods and pharmaceuticals.
Key terms
- carbon nanohorn
- A nano-sized carbon material in which a thin sheet of carbon is rolled into a horn-like cone.
- dielectrophoresis
- A phenomenon in which fine particles in a nonuniform electric field are attracted or repelled depending on their properties.
- molecular dynamics
- A method that computes the motion of each molecule on a computer to study how a substance behaves.
ResearchResearch themes
Aiming to establish advanced separation engineering, the lab develops separation operations and equipment based on various principles, including adsorption, drying, electric fields, and biological processes. It explores applying new nanomaterials such as carbon nanohorns to separation engineering, and also studies process technologies for freezing and drying foods and pharmaceuticals.
*Illustrative imageCarbon materials that store hydrogen
Using arc discharge in water, the lab produces carbon nanohorns with metal nanoparticles dispersed on them, and investigates how they take up hydrogen at high pressure. This may lead to inexpensive, high-performance hydrogen storage materials.
*Illustrative imageSeparating fine particles with electric fields
To recover rare metals and purify nanomaterials to high purity, the lab develops a technique for separating fine particles using dielectrophoresis. Using carbon nanotubes as electrodes, it aims to build a device that also works in cases that have been hard to separate until now.
*Illustrative imageControlling food structure through drying
Foods have structures spanning a wide range of sizes, from molecules to microns, and their functions are closely tied to structure. The lab develops processes that control the movement of water inside foods, and studies how to give foods new functions.
*Illustrative imageSeeing adsorption and hydration at the molecular level
To gain knowledge useful for adsorption engineering and food engineering, the lab uses computational methods such as molecular dynamics and molecular orbital methods to study various adsorption phenomena and how biopolymers and oligosaccharides interact with water (hydration).
MembersFaculty
The faculty members of the Separation Engineering Lab are Professor Noriaki Sano and Assistant Professor Tetsuo Suzuki.
- ProfessorNoriaki Sano
- Assistant ProfessorTetsuo Suzuki
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Multi-Column Distillation Column at Angostura” anaxmedia / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Carbon materials that store hydrogen: “Carbon Nanohorn Combination” Lengmartin / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Separating fine particles with electric fields: “Microfluidic Chip iX-factory” IX-factory STK / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Controlling food structure through drying: “Freeze-Dried Foods (497590main jsc2008e038829 Freeze-Driedhi full)” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Seeing adsorption and hydration at the molecular level: “Liquid water hydrogen bond” Thomas Splettstoesser (www.scistyle.com) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Molecular Assembly Chemistry Lab): “CSIRO ScienceImage 11637 Scanning electron microscope image of the seed inside the MOF crystals” Dr Paolo Falcaro and Dr Dario Buso, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Biofunctional Polymers Lab): “Supported Lipid Bilayer and Nanoparticles AFM” Yurko / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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