Permeation Membrane System for Gas Separation

Helion Energy Engineering, 2025–26

Liaison(s): Jackson Baker ’21
Advisor(s): Gordon Krauss
Students(s): Stuart Kerr, Kayla Long (TL-F), Julia Manese (TL-S), Annette Chang (S), Sophie Khuu (S), Quinn Miyamoto (S), Ever Diaz-Ramos (F), Hugo Guckert (F), Anirudh Gupta (F), Dwight King (F)

Helion Energy is a nuclear fusion energy company making generators that run on hydrogen and helium isotopes for a future of clean energy. The Clinic team will design and build a system to separate and recycle output gases through a permeation membrane and evaluate membrane efficiency under different operating conditions for future optimization.