Sidney Loeb
American-Israeli chemical engineer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sidney Loeb (1917–2008)[1][2] was an American-Israeli chemical engineer. Loeb made reverse osmosis (RO) practical by developing, together with Srinivasa Sourirajan, semi-permeable anisotropic membranes. The invention of the practical reverse osmosis membrane revolutionized water desalination. Loeb invented the power generating process pressure retarded osmosis (PRO)--making accessible a rich previously unknown source of green energy, and a method of producing power by a reverse electrodialysis (RED) heat engine, among other inventions in related fields. The production of energy by PRO and RED, among others, is sometimes called "osmotic power."[citation needed]
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Born | Sidney Loeb 1917 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
Died | December 11, 2008(2008-12-11) (aged 91) Omer, Israel |
Nationality | American, Israeli |
Alma mater | University of Illinois(B.S.), University of California at Los Angeles (M.Sc., Ph.D.) |
Known for | Reverse Osmosis |
Spouse | Mickey Loeb |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemical Engineering |
Institutions | Ben-Gurion University |
Doctoral advisor | Samuel Yuster |
Other academic advisors | Srinivasa Sourirajan |
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