Government recognition
$5M+ in grants & SR&ED credits
Federal and provincial recognition of Petro Sep's membrane separation R&D over twenty-seven years.
Government of Canada · Province of Ontario
About Petro Sep
Petro Sep has been fabricating industrial process equipment, packaged plants, and membrane systems since 1999. Our head office, with its research and development and engineering staff, and the Petro Sep Canadian Labs and R&D Center are in Mississauga (Greater Toronto Area). ASME code-stamped pressure-vessel fabrication happens at the Kerteh shop of Petro Sep Engineering Sdn. Bhd., in which Petro Sep Corporation holds 30%.
Our story
Most fabricators don't have their own separation IP. Most membrane vendors don't fabricate. The seams between them are where projects fail. The membrane supplier blames the integrator. The integrator blames the engineer. The engineer blames the operator. Somebody is always pointing somewhere else.
Petro Sep was founded in 1999 to do both. Build the equipment and the plants the customer needs, in our own shops, against international code, and bring our own separation technology when the fluid is hard. Engineering, fabrication, installation, and operations under one contract. R&D and pilot work added when the project rests on membrane IP.
Twenty-seven years later, we run two facilities. Mississauga in the Greater Toronto Area (corporate headquarters, research and development and engineering, and the Petro Sep Canadian Labs and R&D Center) and Kerteh (Petro Sep Engineering Sdn. Bhd., 5.56-acre heavy-iron fabrication shop, 300 MT/month capacity, ASME U and U2 and National Board R, since 2014). Our production partnership is Motian Petro Sep Membrane Technology Co. Ltd. in China (est. 2006), an early pioneer and manufacturer of polymeric membranes.
Recognition
Government recognition, academic collaboration, and the paperwork that anchors twenty-seven years of work.
“This company in Oakville has figured out a better way, they have built a better mousetrap. And they are learning how to do that on a large scale.”
Government recognition
Federal and provincial recognition of Petro Sep's membrane separation R&D over twenty-seven years.
Government of Canada · Province of Ontario
Mississauga (Greater Toronto Area) HQ visits
Hon. Bill Blair, then Minister of Emergency Preparedness, and MP Iqra Khalid (Mississauga, Erin Mills) visited the Mississauga office in 2022. Premier Dalton McGuinty visited in an earlier engagement.
Academic collaboration
Petro Sep's 1999 pervaporation membranes came from earlier research by Petro Sep scientists together with the collaboration of the Industrial Membrane Research Institute (IMRI) of the University of Ottawa. Dr. Takeshi Matsuura co-edited both books that carry Fakhir Baig's pervaporation chapters.
See Publications, below.
Leadership

President & CEO
Fakhir Baig founded Petro Sep Corporation in the Greater Toronto Area in 1999 to commercialize membrane separation technologies for industrial process problems. Over the following decades he built the company across two facilities (Mississauga for engineering and R&D; Kerteh for heavy-iron fabrication) and a production partnership with Motian Petro Sep Membrane Technology Co. Ltd. (est. 2006). He wrote the pervaporation chapters of Advanced Membrane Technology and Applications (Wiley, 2008) and Membrane Separation Principles and Applications (Elsevier, 2019), both co-edited by Dr. Takeshi Matsuura.
Publications
Books, chapters, and peer-reviewed papers by our founder, Fakhir Baig, on membrane separation and its industrial applications.

Chapter author (Chapter 7, Pervaporation and Hybrid Vacuum Membrane Distillation Technology and Applications)
Elsevier, 2019
Petro Sep founder Fakhir Baig is the sole author of Chapter 7, "Pervaporation and Hybrid Vacuum Membrane Distillation Technology and Applications", in this Elsevier reference on membrane separation principles and industrial applications, edited by A. F. Ismail, M. A. Rahman, M. H. D. Othman, and Dr. Takeshi Matsuura.

Chapter author (Chapter 17, Pervaporation)
Wiley, 2008
Fakhir Baig authored the Pervaporation chapter of this Wiley volume, edited by N. N. Li, A. G. Fane, W. S. W. Ho, and Dr. Takeshi Matsuura. The chapter covers AZEO-SEP and VOC-SEP applications and the simulation of hollow-fiber module performance.
Peer-reviewed papers
Simulation of Pervaporation through a Hollow-Fiber Module for a Reactive Waste Stream from Phenolic Resin Manufacturing
C. K. Yeom, F. U. Baig · Membrane Journal (The Membrane Society of Korea), 2003
Simulation and Process Design of Pervaporation Plate-and-Frame Modules for Dehydration of Organic Solvents
C. K. Yeom, M. Kazi, F. U. Baig · Membrane Journal (The Membrane Society of Korea), 2002
Influence of Interfacial Reaction and Mobility Ratio on the Displacement of Oil in a Hele-Shaw Cell
V. Hornof, F. U. Baig · Experiments in Fluids (Springer), 1995
Founder profile
Fakhir Baig, P.Eng. on LinkedInCertifications, patents, and trademarks
Code stamps and national licenses, plus the US patents (granted 2003 and 2008, now expired) and the registered trademarks behind our productized platforms. Documentation ships in every project handover package.
ASME and National Board
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Section VIII Division 1, pressure vessel construction
ASME certificate of authorization issued to Petro Sep Engineering Sdn. Bhd. for the manufacture of pressure vessels at its Kerteh shop and field sites controlled by it (not impregnated graphite). Active in ASME's certificate holder search.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Section VIII Division 2, alternative-rules pressure vessel construction
ASME certificate of authorization issued to Petro Sep Engineering Sdn. Bhd. for the manufacture of Class 1 and Class 2 pressure vessels (Section VIII Division 2, ASME's alternative rules) at its Kerteh shop and field sites controlled by it. Active in ASME's certificate holder search.
National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors
Metallic repairs and alterations, shop and field
National Board certificate of authorization issued to Petro Sep Engineering Sdn. Bhd. for metallic repairs and alterations at shop and field locations, under the National Board Inspection Code. Listed to June 2028 in the National Board directory.
Malaysia
Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS), Malaysia
Supply of products and services to exploration and oil and gas companies in Malaysia
PETRONAS licence for Petro Sep Engineering Sdn. Bhd., in Standardised Work and Equipment Categories (SWEC) that include shell-and-tube heat exchangers, air-cooled heat exchangers and pressure vessels as manufacturer. The copy in PSE's June 2024 profile runs from 14 August 2022 to 15 August 2025.
Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Malaysia
Maker and repairer of pressure vessels (PVM01, PVR01)
Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) certificate of recognition for Petro Sep Engineering Sdn. Bhd. as a maker and repairer of pressure vessels at its Kerteh address. The copy in PSE's June 2024 profile runs from 23 June 2023 to 22 June 2026.
Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Malaysia
KPD 01
DOSH registration of Petro Sep Engineering Sdn. Bhd. as a competent firm (petroleum contractor), scope KPD 01, captioned in PSE's profile as its pipeline manufacturer licence. The copy runs from 21 March 2024 to 20 March 2027.
Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Malaysia (applications through MIDA)
Liquid-gas separation systems and related modules, parts and components
Manufacturing licence under the Industrial Co-ordination Act 1975: Petro Sep Engineering Sdn. Bhd. is a licensed manufacturer at PT 3836, Kawasan Perindustrian Kerteh, from 10 March 2020, of 'Liquid-gas Separation System and Related Modules, Parts & Components'.
Patents
United States · US 6,645,380 B2
Granted in 2003 to Fakhir U. Baig, Abdul M. Kazi and Aiser Al-Hassani, assigned to Petro Sep International Ltd., and since expired. Covers the stacked separation-module architecture, fluid-containment chambers stacked within each module, that lets one apparatus run pervaporation, vapor permeation, membrane distillation, and filtration. The mechanical basis of the productized platforms.
View patentUnited States, PCT and Canada · US 7,459,084 B2 (WO 03/000389, CA 2,351,272 C)
Granted in 2008 to Fakhir U. Baig, Abdul M. Kazi and Aiser Al-Hassani, assigned to Petro Sep Corporation, and expired in 2023. Covers the hollow-fiber membrane bundle module and separation method behind the AQUA-SEP®, VOC-SEP®, and AZEO-SEP® systems. Cited by more than 40 later patents.
View patentRegistered trademarks
Canada (CIPO) · 1135297
Registered word mark for the Petro Sep company and brand with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.
View recordCanada (CIPO) · 1092272
Registered word mark for the AQUA-SEP vacuum membrane distillation platform.
View recordCanada (CIPO) · 1092274
Registered word mark for the VOC-SEP hydrophobic pervaporation platform, which removes VOCs from water.
View recordCanada (CIPO) · 1092273
Registered word mark for the AZEO-SEP pervaporation platform.
View record
Mississauga (Greater Toronto Area) · Kerteh
Where the equipment is engineered, fabricated, and commissioned.
See our facilitiesLocations
Two facilities: the Mississauga (Greater Toronto Area) head office and lab, and the Kerteh heavy-iron fabrication shop of Petro Sep Engineering Sdn. Bhd., 30% owned by Petro Sep Corporation.

Mississauga (Greater Toronto Area), Ontario, Canada · 1999
Petro Sep Corporation's head office, with its research and development and engineering staff, and the Petro Sep Canadian Labs and R&D Center, which offers bench-scale testing to help AZEO-SEP® and VOC-SEP® customers choose a system.
2197 Dunwin Drive, Mississauga, ON L5L 1X2, Canada

Kerteh, Terengganu, Malaysia · 2014 (fully operational December 2019)
Petro Sep Engineering Sdn. Bhd. (PSE), established in 2014: a 5.56-acre site in Kerteh, Terengganu, with three covered fabrication shops, a 40 m post-weld heat treatment furnace and 300 MT a month of fabrication capacity.
PT 3836, Kawasan Perindustrian Kerteh, 24300 Kerteh, Kemaman, Terengganu, Malaysia
Partnerships
Distinct from our two facilities: a production partnership with a manufacturer of polymeric membranes.
JV partner · China
Founded in 2006 and co-funded by Shandong Zhaojin Motian Co., Ltd. and Canada Petro Sep Membrane Technology Co., Ltd. One of China's earliest manufacturers of micro-filtration membrane, and an early pioneer and manufacturer of polymeric membranes.
Markets served: Canada, United States, Saudi Arabia, China, Malaysia, plus projects across Latin America. These are the markets we serve, not places we operate from. We operate from Mississauga (Greater Toronto Area) and Kerteh; the projects ship across three continents.
Contact
Send drawings, a spec, a sample, or just the problem. Someone from our team reads it and gets back to you.
Mississauga (Greater Toronto Area), Canada
Email: info [at] petrosep [dot] com
Phone: +1 (905) 825-3109
Kerteh, Malaysia
Email: info [at] petrosep [dot] com
Phone: +60 13-984 2127
Your first reply comes from a real person on our team who can read your spec, your drawings, or your fluid problem and tell you whether our scope fits.