Engineers at MIT have developed a new approach to crude oil fractionating that could slash the amount of energy needed for processing the crude into different fuels by as much as 90% in a ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a membrane that separates crude oil components by molecular size, potentially reducing the energy required for crude oil ...

Energy demands in crude oil processing Separating crude oil into products such as gasoline, diesel and heating oil currently relies on distillation, which consumes substantial amounts of energy. This ...