Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from August 2000

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from August 2000

BIOMEDICAL AND BIOMEMBRANES ALZA's Concerta Gets FDA Okay.
August 1, 2000... ALZA Corp. has received approval from the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to market Concerta (methylphenidate HCl) extended-release tablets (CII) for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in patients age six and...

Envirogen Recycles Biomass.
August 1, 2000... The ENVIROGEN Membrane Biological Reactor (MBR) system consists of a suspended-growth bioreactor combined with a membrane liquid/solids separation unit. Following the biological treatment of the contaminated stream, the contents of the...

MICROFILTRATION Ionics Systems Heads "Down Under".
August 1, 2000... Ionics, Inc. is developing a comprehensive integrated membrane system for the Luggage Point municipal sewage treatment plant in Brisbane, Australia. The plant, expected to come on-line this year, will provide a local refinery with high-quality...

USFilter Supplies Jordan's Drinking Water.
August 1, 2000... USFilter's Memcor Products will supply the city of Salt, Jordan, with a Memcor Continuous Microfiltration (CMF) membrane system in an effort to purify water from three springs by removing coliform bacteria and cryptosporidium. The city treats...

GAS SEPARATIONS: Perma Pure Takes "Zero" Air Everywhere.
August 1, 2000... Systems developed by Perma Pure bring "zero" air to the point of use without handling bulky and hazardous compressed gas cylinders. Portable Zero-Air generators are an inexpensive way to supply instrument-quality air for field applications....

ULTRAFILTRATION ZeeWeed Heads South.
August 1, 2000... Zenon Environmental, Inc. will supply Mexico's newest ultrafiltration wastewater treatment plant with ZeeWeed membrane technology. The contract is valued at about $9 million. The order comes through Atlatec, S.A. de C.V., which was contracted...

Ionics Brings NORIT to the U.S.
August 1, 2000... Ionics, Inc. has agreed with NORIT Membrane Technology BV to market and sell NORIT advanced ultrafiltration technology for municipal drinking water applications in the United States. Ultrafiltration is a key membrane-based water treatment...

RO AND NANOFILTRATION Water Supply Boosted by Desalination.
August 1, 2000... Emalsa, located in Las Palmas, principal city of the Canary Islands, is using a membrane-based Degr_mont Espagne desalination process as its treatment process. Degr_mont Espagne is part of the Suez-Lyonnaise-des-Eaux group. The utility draws...

RCAI Lands PallSep Integration Contract.
August 1, 2000... Recycling Centers of America, Inc. (RCAI) has been awarded Phase II of a contract for the engineering and factory integration of the PallSep membrane filtration system to minimize wastewater production. RCAI offers expert system analysis...

Zeta Rod Protects Membranes.
August 1, 2000... Zeta Corp. has developed a system to protect industrial cooling, reverse-osmosis membranes, flocculation processes, glass container shear lubricants, metal working fluids, and water distribution piping. The Zeta Rod capacitor-based technology...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Infilco Acquires Anderson Water.
August 1, 2000... Infilco Degremont, Inc. (IDI) announced it has acquired Anderson Water Systems, Ltd. (AWS). AWS engineers and manufactures custom industrial water treatment systems, specializing in ion exchange, filtration, and membrane process...

ZENON Chosen for Oil Sands Project.
August 1, 2000... ZENON Environmental, Inc. has secured a contract to provide ZeeWeed membrane filtration technology to Bantrel, Inc., acting on behalf of a joint venture of Shell Canada, Ltd., Chevron Canada Resources, Ltd., and Western Oil Sands LP. ...

Jostra AG Takes Over Bentley Business.
August 1, 2000... Jostra AG (Hirrlingen, Germany) has acquired the successful U.S.- based Bentley Cardiopulmonary Business from Edwards Lifesciences. Bentley was previously a division of Baxter Corp. Jostra's product range includes membrane oxygenators,...

Joint Venture Is Elemental.
August 1, 2000... Elemental Solutions Group, Inc. and Hydrokinetic Systems, Inc. have formed a strategic joint venture, MicroTek Systems, Inc., to be located in Phoenix, Arizona. The company will offer, in addition to core technologies such as membranes and ion...

Ballard Gets More Automotive Orders.
August 1, 2000... Ballard Power Systems has received orders for a total of $1.5 million from Honda Motor Co., Ltd., a second automotive company win for Ballard Mark 900 Series Fuel Cell Power Modules and support services. The Ballard Mark 900 Series Fuel...

Pall Wins German Blood Contract.
August 1, 2000... Pall Corp. has been awarded a $6 million contract for blood filtration systems by the second largest blood center in Germany. The German Red Cross Transfusion Center, Lower Saxony, with headquarters in Springe, informed its customers that it...

MARKETS AND APPLICATIONS Rentech Reveals Study Results.
August 1, 2000... Rentech, Inc. announced the results of a cost estimate for a 10,000 bpd gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant for natural gas from the Forest Oil Corp. Ibhubezi field in South Africa. The study calculated cost for the following process steps: hydrogen...

Desal Growth Result of Water Scarcity.
August 1, 2000... According to a report released by Frost and Sullivan, opportunities abound for desalination in the Middle Eastern, North African, and European markets. The study calls attention to restricted opportunities for price increases because of...

ED AND FUEL CELLS Altair Begins Ceramic Oxide Study.
August 1, 2000... Altair Intl., Inc. reports that its wholly owned subsidiary, Altair Technologies, has begun development of ceramic oxide fuel cell membranes and reactive catalyst support structures. If successful, the technology could have widespread...

EVI Completes Initial DMFC Research.
August 1, 2000... Energy Ventures, Inc. has completed the initial phase of its research, development, and demonstration program on its direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) technology. The work was undertaken to verify the company's technique for resolving the...

REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS WERF Issues Wastewater Report.
August 1, 2000... The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF, Alexandria, VA) has released five publications detailing the results of several completed research projects. Included in the release is Membrane Technology: An Innovative Alternative in...

INDUSTRY INSIGHT History of the Spiral-Wound Membrane Module.
August 1, 2000... The spiral-wound membrane module is one of the spectacular successes of the membrane industry. It is simple, yet nonobvious. The single-leaf spiral of Westmoreland was transformed by Bray into the elegant multi-leaf spiral, an invention that...

Introduction.
August 1, 2000... When the membrane industry began, when it crawled out of the laboratory and tried to establish a commercial footing, most of the membranes had been cast on glass. They were flat sheets. Larger scale installations required ways of assembling...

Invention of the Spiral.
August 1, 2000... The first spiral was invented by Julius Westmoreland. The patent contains the elements of a modern spiral. Like most clever inventions, there are wonderful stories of how the elements were combined, and I often wonder how many of them are...

Deployment.
August 1, 2000... Spirals were invented under the aegis of the Office of Saline Water, and their obvious application was in desalting. Old timers can talk forever about the various problems that needed to be overcome before spirals could be practical. Let me...

Beyond Desalination.
August 1, 2000... Soon the spiral was being used for other things. Gas separation membranes were incorporated into spirals. Some are still made that way. Where I saw the "invasion" was into the process markets. While we (Abcor, now Koch) had dominance in...

Where Sprials "Failed".
August 1, 2000... Of course not every application yielded to the spiral: Hemodialysis: The artificial kidney is the biggest membrane market by far. It is a dialysis market, however, where mass transfer on both sides of the membrane is important. The spiral...

Potable Water.
August 1, 2000... The industry is optimistic about a huge market developing around potable water. Costs are approaching conventional filtration (when the economics include land cost, etc.), and the quality is definitely better. It looks pretty good for...

Future.
August 1, 2000... What will replace the spiral, and when? Unfortunately, I don't know. I may have been asking that question longer than anyone, but I have yet to find a good answer. The usual response is, "What do you mean?" or some other polite way of...

MSTN BRIEFS In the News.
August 1, 2000... Millipore Earnings Up 100%. Millipore Corp. (Bedford, MA) says second quarter revenues were $239 million, up 28% from the same period last year. Earnings, excluding the net gain on sale of securities, were $0.62 per share, compared to $0.32...

Personnel Updates.
August 1, 2000... CUNO Director Retires. CUNO, Inc. (Meriden, CT) reports that Paul J. Powers has retired from the company's board of directors. Powers has been a member of CUNO's board of directors since 1986, when the company was a subsidiary of Commercial...

Selected Abstracts.
August 1, 2000... Low Potassium Permeability, an Insufficient Condition. J. A. Hernandez and S. Chifflet set out to contribute to understanding of the physiological role of the electrogenic properties of the sodium pump by studying a dynamic model that...

CALENDAR.
August 1, 2000... October 25-27, 2000, The Conference on Electro-Membrane Processes and Bipolar Membrane Processes. Organized by the University of Twente and the Membrane Application Centre Twente. Contact: Wim Boeken, Membrane Application Centre Twente, P.O....