Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from April 2000

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from April 2000

GAS SEPARATIONS: Buckyball Shards Deliver Nitrogen.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Scientists at DuPont Co. (1007 Market St., Wilmington, DE 19898; Tel: 302/774- 1000, Fax: 302/774-7321) and the University of Delaware (UD) report that buckyball shards show promise for more efficiently producing nitrogen and oxygen - a...

Model Determines Operating Conditions.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... University of Calabria (Arcavacata di Rende (CS), 87030, Italy; Tel: +39 0984 402706, Fax: +39 0984 402103) researcher Enrico Drioli and IRMERC-CNR (Via Pietro Bucci, Arcavacata di Rende, 87030, Italy; Tel: +39-0984-492014, Fax: +39-...

NANOFILTRATION: MTR Separates Solvent/Oil Mixtures.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... A Membrane Technology and Research (1360 Willow Rd., No. 103, Menlo Park, CA 94025-1516; Tel: 650/328-2228) is developing nanofiltration membranes for the separation of solvent/oil mixtures in a government-funded project. In the chemical...

MICROFILTRATION: System Gets to Root of Dental Water Impurity.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Pall Corp. (2200 Northern Blvd., East Hills, NY 11548; Tel: 516/484-5400, Fax: 516/484-5228) has developed a system that effectively removes bacteria, bacterial endotoxins, and other contaminants from dental waterlines without the use of...

Acid Ionization Allows Heavy Metal Sorption.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Conventional microfiltration membranes commonly used in passive separation of particles from solution, can also be employed for capturing heavy metal with the right preparation, according to a research team at the University of Kentucky (UofK,...

Humic Acid Fouling Depends on Source.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... University of Delaware scientists Wei Yuan and Andrew L. Zydney (Department of Chemical Engineering, 48 Leader Dr., Newark, DE 19713-1764; Tel: 302/831-6006) have examined the extent and mechanisms of humic acid fouling from natural organic...

ELECTRICALLY-DRIVEN Johnson Matthey Easier to Handle.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Johnson Matthey plc (2-4 Cockspur St., Trafalgar Sq., London SW1Y 5BQ, U.K.; Tel: +44-20-7269-8400, Fax; +44-20-7269-8433) has developed a free-standing, dimensionally stable composite membrane, which is easier to handle during fuel- cell...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Air Liquide, Air Products Extend BOC Bid.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Air Liquide SA (75 Quai D-Orsay 75321, Paris Cedex 07, France) and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (7201 Hamilton Blvd., Allentown, PA 18195; Tel: 610/481- 4911, Fax: 610/481-6642) extended a joint offer for BOC Group plc, which provides the...

Cascade Bails Fieldale Out of Water Trouble.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... A system to clean and reuse almost 400,000 gal of water per day will be installed at a Fieldale Farms' (Hwy. 441 S., Business 334 W., Clarkesville, GA 30523; Tel: 706/754-5289) poultry processing plant by Praxair (777 Old Saw Mill Rd.,...

Innova Files Patent Suit Against Brita.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Innova Pure Water, Inc. (13130 56th Ct., No. 604, Clearwater, FL 33760-4018; Tel: 727/572-1000) has filed a patent infringement suit against the Brita Products Co., a Clorox (1221 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612; Tel: 510/271-7000) subsidiary, in...

HemaSure Takes Command.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Command Medical Products, Inc., (15 Signal Ave., Ormond Beach, FL 32174; Tel: 904/672-8116, Fax: 904/677-7781) a manufacturer of custom medical devices, has signed a multi-year contract with HemaSure, Inc. After a 12-month search process,...

Ionics Wins Water Contract.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Ionics (65 Grove St., Watertown, MA 02172; Tel: 617/926-2500, Fax: 617/926-3404) has received a $20 million contract to supply and install an integrated water and wastewater treatment system for a "greenfield" 1,000-mW merchant power plant...

eFiltration.com Gets Financial Boost.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... eFiltration.com, Inc. (P.O. Box 10927, Chicago, IL 60610; Tel: 312/587-9386, Fax: 877/446-4632), an online business-to-business marketing company focused on the filtration industry, says that Internet operating company Divine InterVentures...

HemaSure, Inc.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... HemaSure, Inc. (140 Locke Dr., Marlborough, MA 01752; Tel: 508/490-9500) has completed a $28 million private placement of common stock. Institutional investors purchased 3.7 million shares of HemaSure common stock, for a total of about $28...

Commodore Separation Technologies.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Commodore Separation Technologies (3240 Town Point Dr., No. 200, Kennesaw, GA 30144; Tel: 770/422-1518, Fax: 770/422-1163) reports a net loss of $1,876,000 for the year ended December 31, 1999. This compares with a net loss of $3,629,000 for...

Minntech Corp.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Minntech Corp. (14605 28th Ave. N., Minneapolis, MN 55447; Tel: 612/553- 3300, Fax: 612/553-3387) has completed the repurchase of 300,000 shares of its common stock, authorized under a program approved by the company's board of directors in...

Ionics, Inc.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Ionics, Inc. (65 Grove St., Watertown, MA 02472; Tel: 617/926-2500, Fax: 617/926-4304) has made three key managerial appointments: Alan M. Crosby has been appointed vice president, Consumer Water Group; Michael W. Routh has been appointed vice...

Osmonics, Inc.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Osmonics, Inc. (5951 Clearwater Dr., Minnetonka, MN 55343-8995; Tel: 612/933-2277, Fax: 719/264-3937) reports sales of $184.7 million for the year ended December 31, 1999, an increase of 4% compared to sales of $177.8 million for the year...

Praxair, Inc.(John Clerico)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Praxair, Inc. (Praxair, 777 Old Saw Mill Rd., Tarrytown, NY 10591; Tel: 914/789-2748, Fax: 914/789-2026) Executive Vice President and CFO John Clerico will step down April 1 to become chief executive of an online business that will be funded...

Fuel Cells Ready to Make Their Mark.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... The fuel cell, an environmentally friendly substitute for the gasoline engine, is finally making its mark in industry. The top candidate among various fuel cell technologies is the proton exchange membrane (PEM) cell. Futuretech (605...

INORGANICS: Bonded PVP Layer Reduces Pore Plugging.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... UCLA (Department of Chemical Engineering, Los Angeles, CA 90095; Tel: 310/825- 8766) researchers have determined that using tubular crossflow ceramic-supported polymer (CSP) membranes for ultrafiltration of oil-in-water (o/w) microemulsions...

CeraMem Creates Zeolite Ceramic Module.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... A CeraMem Corp. (12 Clematis Ave., Waltham, MA 02154-7011; Tel: 781/899-4495) is working to develop a low-cost zeolite ceramic membrane module. The material and separation properties of zeolite membranes provide several advantages over...

Enzymes Activate to Defoul.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Researchers with the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at Rhodes University and the Institute for Polymer Science (Stellenbosch University) have developed defouling-on-demand for ultrafiltration using activatable enzymes capable of...

PERVAPORATION: EPA Demos IPA Removal from Remediation Fluid.(isopropyl alcohol)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, 26 W. Martin Luther King Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45268; Tel: 513/569-7631, Fax: 513/569-7677) is evaluating the ability of pervaporation technology to recover isopropyl alcohol from a stream containing...

HYBRID SYSTEMS: Hollow Fibers Improve Liquid Membrane Life.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... New Jersey Institute of Technology (Department of Chemical Engineering, Newark, NJ 07102; Tel: 973/596-8447) researchers report that supported liquid membrane- based pervaporation can be made suitable for large-scale processes by incorporating...

BIOMEDICAL: Air Casting Makes Chitin Matrices Easy.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... National University of Singapore (Department of Chemistry, 3 Science Dr. 3, Singapore 117543, Singapore; Tel: 65 874 2836, Fax: 65 779 1691) scientists developed open-pore chitin matrixes, created in a simple, rapid, and cost- effective...

Routine Blood Filtration in Germany.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Germany, which filters less than 25% of its +4 million blood donations, intends to filter all of them to remove leukocytes. The Paul-Ehrlich-Institut announced that it has the support of the Federal Ministry of Health to proceed with plans to...

Artificial Liver Nears Market.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... The commercial availability of an artificial liver seems imminent based on the progress of two experimental efforts. The first human clinical trials of a bioartificial liver are scheduled to begin soon, pending Food and Drug Administration...

FILTRATION: Smart Filter Removes Sulfur.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... An inexpensive filter efficiently removes sulfur and other impurities from crude oil and serves as a miniature refinery to upgrade the crude, a University of Southern California (USC, 3131 McClintock Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90007; Tel:...

Seafood Waste Makes Pharmaceutical Filters.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... A Virginia Tech (1700 Pratt Dr., Blacksburg, VA 24060-6361; Tel: 540/231-6342) researcher has developed low-cost material for purifying proteins, such as to capture antibodies from blood serum or cell cultures. Such antibodies are used in...

CALENDAR.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... May 3-5, 2000, Integration des Membranes dans les Procedes: Facteurs de succes, Perspectives, Lyon, France. Contact: Claude Poulain; Email: cpic@ensic.unancy.fr; or Michel Vivier; Email: form-cont@cpe.fr. May 5-9, 2000, The AIChE 2000...

Kaneka Stops Dissolving Components.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Kaneka Corp. (3-2-4, Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka 530, Japan; Tel: 06-6226-5050, Fax: 06-6226-5037) has created a polysulfone hollow-fiber membrane for hemodialysis and blood filtration, removing proteins with molecular weights of 10,000 to...