An important contribution to the realization of a sustainable industrial development can be given by membrane operations. They can contribute to redesign process engineering in the logic of process intensification. In particular, the results achieved with membrane-assisted crystallization and membrane-assisted condensation show as these innovative membrane operations can overcome the performance of traditional operations: in the case of MCr, the possibility to produce specific polymorphs of crystals; in the case of the condenser, the control of the concentration of condensable contaminants in the recovered liquid stream. These two innovative membrane operations can bring interesting results for “water recovery from sky” and “water and mineral extraction from the sea”.

膜操作可以为实现可持续的工业发展做出重要贡献。它们可以在流程强化的逻辑中为重新设计流程工程做出贡献。尤其是，膜辅助结晶和膜辅助缩合所获得的结果表明，这些创新的膜操作可以克服传统操作的性能：在MCr的情况下，可能产生特定的晶体多晶型物；对于冷凝器，控制回收液流中可冷凝污染物的浓度。这两个创新的膜操作可以为“从天空中回收水”和“从海洋中提取水和矿物质”带来有趣的结果。