
The Membrane Lab
The Membrane Laboratory focuses on advanced membrane solutions for water, environment, and industry enabling sustainable applications in water purification, water characterization, and resource circularity.
Dedicated membrane laboratory with lab-, bench-, and pilot-scale membrane systems for flat sheet, hollow fibre and spiral wound membranes evaluation, including test rig for full length membrane biofouling studies and pilot test rig for industrially relevant scale demonstration.
Our R&D efforts focus on development and application of innovative membrane-based solutions, evaluating their feasibility, and conducting comprehensive performance studies. We bridge fundamental membrane science with real-world applications to support sustainable and scalable separation technologies.
Membrane Lab offers specialized services in membrane application development, performance testing, feasibility assessment, validation under realistic conditions and pilot-scale demonstration.

Key features of the Membrane Lab
- Lab-, bench-, and pilot-scale membrane test installations
- Mobile systems permitting on-site investigations
- Permits feasibility, performance evaluation, preliminary process conditions determination, and fouling studies of microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF), nanofiltration (NF), reverse osmosis (RO) membranes under controlled conditions
- Representative for industrial spiral wound and hollow fiber modules used in full-scale systems
- Pilot-scale validation and demonstration capabilities in support of real-world evaluation of membrane treatment and recovery systems under industrially representative conditions
- High sensitivity measurements and continuous digital data acquisition and control
- In-house ISO and GLP certified chemical, biological and toxicity laboratory offering full range of chemical analyses and toxicity determination.
Applications
Research activities and services carried out by the membrane Lab:
- Confidential R&D studies on feasibility of using membranes and their expected performance
- Evaluation of the factors impacting performance
- Study membrane fouling
- Determine preliminary process conditions
- Independent validation and demonstration of membrane-based processes.
- Support troubleshooting and optimization
Example applications:
- Separation, purification, and concentration of valuable compounds from water and process streams
- Water treatment and removal of traditional and emerging pollutants (such as chemicals, pharmaceuticals, antimicrobial resistance, cyanotoxins, etc.)
- Water recovery and tailoring the water quality for reuse
- Natural organic matter fractionation for NOM characterization in drinking water production
- Nitrogen harvesting from process water and wastewaters
- Hydrogen production
- Selective minerals separation and extraction from process waters, brines, seawater, end-of-life battery waste, etc.
- Water supply and treatment in emergency and crisis situations