[Jonty30]

Basically, it's the same medical dialysis methods used with kidneys. Assuming it can be scaled up, it could drop the cost of water filtration substantially, which is currently sitting at about $0.50/1000 litres.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“Basically, it’s the same medical dialysis methods used with kidneys. Assuming it can be scaled up,...”

Sorry but you can get just about anything to work at lab scale under controlled conditions. Much much more difficult to transition technology to work in the real world. Seen it many times.

[ridesthemiles]

CAN THEY REMOVE DRUG RESIDUE???

About 50% of drugs injested pass thru the human body——

INTO the ‘waste water’

[E. Pluribus Unum]

There is really nothing new about this technology. My first job as a chemist almost fifty years ago was at Monsanto as a contract lab technician testing the performance of gas separation membranes.

https://www.chegg.com/homework-help/questions-and-answers/problem-4-prism-gas-permeation-process-developed-monsanto-company-selective-hydrogen-using-q62774927

The big problem with it then was the membranes get contaminated and the flow through them deteriorates pretty quickly.

My suspicion is the dialysis membranes are used one time for a single patient, then discarded for a new one for the next patient.

I don’t think these will last very long filtering sewage.