Industry separates crude oil, natural gas and chemical mixtures into pure products by means of fractionating distillation columns. This process is energy-intensive, but a new type of column structure ...

Liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry (LC-MS) combines two approaches to separate and identify molecules or compounds present in a sample. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) separates ...

Different methods are used to separate different mixtures. The method chosen depends upon the properties of the components of the mixture.