Details

Last Funding Type

Grant

Last Funding Money Raised

$9.75M

Industries

Advanced Materials,CleanTech,Energy,Energy Efficiency,Industrial,Manufacturing,Product Research

Founded date

Jan 1, 2016

Number Of Employee

1 - 10

Operating Status

Active

Legal Name

Via Separations, Inc.

Via Separations is enabling industrial decarbonization with its novel chemistries that allow manufacturing facilities to slash their energy consumption while making more product. Targeting the 12% of US energy consumption that is wasted each year separating chemicals, Via reduces the load of the process by 90%, electrifies the most energy-intensive step in chemical production, and generates additional revenue for the customer. Today, Via is deploying its technology in pilot trials at pulp & paper facilities to eliminate 100 million metric tons of CO2 by 2050. Via’s innovation is a highly selective and robust membrane filter that replaces the energy inefficient heat-based separations in industrial processes. Spun out of MIT’s Department of Material Science & Engineering, Via has scaled up the technology by more than 10 million times and demonstrated working prototypes at commercial scale.