The Open Membrane Database is a crowd-sourced platform that aggregates performance data for over 14,500 water purification and desalination membranes, sourced from peer-reviewed literature and commercial product data sheets. This database enables researchers and engineers to efficiently benchmark membrane performance, reducing the time and costs associated with membrane characterization.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Researchers and engineers in water purification and desalination lack a centralized, easily accessible repository of membrane performance data. Gathering this data typically involves time-consuming searches through disparate sources like peer-reviewed literature and commercial product data sheets. This inefficiency hinders membrane benchmarking and characterization efforts.
Solution
The Open Membrane Database (OMD) is a crowd-sourced platform that aggregates performance data for over 14,500 water purification and desalination membranes, sourced from peer-reviewed literature and commercial product data sheets. The OMD enables researchers and engineers to efficiently benchmark membrane performance, reducing the time and costs associated with membrane characterization. The database includes permeability and selectivity parameters, membrane chemistry, and publication references. The OMD aims to provide open and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data for membrane science.
Target Audience
The primary users are researchers and engineers in the fields of water purification, desalination, and membrane science.
Features
- Aggregates performance data from peer-reviewed literature and commercial product data sheets
- Contains data for over 14,500 water purification and desalination membranes
- Includes permeability and selectivity parameters
- Provides information on membrane chemistry
- Offers publication references for each membrane
- Supports benchmarking and analysis of membranes
- Provides open and FAIR data