Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from December 2003

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from December 2003

REVERSE OSMOSIS: Purefecta Earns Status as Multi-Barrier Purifier.
December 1, 2003... The Purefecta Drinking Water Purifier, the first product from a collaborative effort between Pall Corp. and Kinetico, Inc., has met the U.S. EPA Guide Standard and Protocol for Testing Microbiological Purifiers to earn exclusive designation as...

NEWater Demand Doubles Since Debut.
December 1, 2003... Despite early skepticism, demand for NEWater, Singapore's reclaimed RO-filtered toilet-to-tap water has doubled since February to eight million gallons per day. The nation's Public Utilities Board (PUB), which processes and pipes the water,...

MICROFILTRATION: Double Filtration Ensures Milk Safety.
December 1, 2003... Scientists at Invensys APV's Silkeborg Innovation Center (formerly APV Pasilac AS) has patented a double pass MF method for processing low fat milk that ensures acceptable bacterial limits in the products in case of a membrane breakdown. The...

Zero Whey Mozzarella Made Without Vats.
December 1, 2003... In a project funded by Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), Cornell University researchers in collaboration with the Northeast Dairy Foods Research Center have devised a continuous, vatless process for making zero whey Mozzarella cheese from smaller...

Dome Eliminates Workstation Jams.
December 1, 2003... Millipore automation-compatible Millex syringe filters eliminate problems that can cause automated systems to shut down during the unattended operation of workstations used for dissolution testing and high performance liquid chromatography...

MEMBRANE REACTORS: MIEC Materials Are Robust.
December 1, 2003... Eltron Research scientists have developed ceramic membrane compositions that contain multiple crystalline phases, including a MIEC (mixed ionic and electronic conducting ceramic) as the predominant phase. The ceramic compositions contain one or...

BIOMEDICAL & BIOMEMBRANE: Parameters Observed for SLB Formation.
December 1, 2003... Models of biological membranes deposited on solid supports have gained popularity for improving scientific understanding of basic cellular functions and for developing biotechnological tools, biomedical devices or biofunctional materials....

Vapotherm As Effective as NRB.
December 1, 2003... Using membrane transfer technology, the Vapotherm system delivers high flows of warm, humidified sterile air or oxygen without the use of masks or standard nasal cannula. Unlike uncomfortable non- rebreather (NRB) systems, Vapotherm allows...

LIQUID MEMBRANES: Dendrimer, Carrier Improve CO2 Separation.
December 1, 2003... Researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology have developed a process for separating carbon dioxide from a gas mixture using an immobilized liquid membrane (ILM) containing both a dendrimer and a solvent selective for CO2. The...

NON-SEPARATING: Structure Improves Fragrance Release.
December 1, 2003... Scientists at Pechiney Emballage Flexible Europe have patented an improved permeable membrane for the atmospheric diffusion of volatile substances, such as room air fresheners and other aromatic products, that provides greater controlled...

INDUSTRY NEWS: More of USFilter Goes on the Block.
December 1, 2003... French-owned Veolia Environnement has plans to sell a large portion of USFilter's North American operations to help offset more than $13 billion of debt. Businesses on the block include USFilter's water treatment and wastewater equipment units,...

Grant Funds Fouling Study.
December 1, 2003... The American Water Works Research Foundation (AWWARF) and the EPA have granted $350,000 in funding for a two-year study on natural organic matter (NOM) fouling of low-pressure MF and UF membrane systems. Members of USFilter's North American...

Airport Prepared for De-icing Overflows.
December 1, 2003... Dallas/Fort Worth Airport has finished installing the largest RO system for treating contaminated storm runoff and recovering glycol-based deicing fluids in time for winter weather. Three years after an environmental debacle related to the...

Yuma Could Restart Defunct Desalter.
December 1, 2003... State of Arizona officials have requested $30 million from the federal government to bring Yuma's idle desalination plant back online and an additional $24 million to $30 million per year in operational expenses to circumvent the possibility of...

Briefly Noted.
December 1, 2003... Exten Industries (Warwick, RI) subsidiary Xenogenics Corp. has received a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trade Office that its Sybiol synthetic bio-liver device will be issued a patent within the next few months. The bioartificial...

CALENDAR.
December 1, 2003... April 18-22, 2004, 9th World Filtration Congress, New Orleans, LA. Contact: Charlotte Stripling, Administrative Manager, AFS Society, P.O. Box 1530, Northport, AL 35476; Tel: 205/333-6111; Fax: 205/333-6446; email: afs@dbtech.net May...

INDUSTRY INSIGHT Storage, Purification, and Recovery of dsDNA.
December 1, 2003... By James C. Davis, Ph.D., Vice President, Biosciences, GenVault Corp., 2101 Faraday Ave., Carlsbad, CA 92008 Universities, medical research centers, major clinics, pharmaceutical companies and U.S. government agencies routinely collect...

Experimental Methods.
December 1, 2003... DNA purification was performed using Qiagen QIAamp Blood DNA mini kit cat. # 51104 (50 reactions) or was performed using blood spotted FTA elements from GenVault plates. Each plate contains 384 elements of FTA paper comprising a 6mm disk...

Results.
December 1, 2003... The GenVault Corp. multiwell plate format contains 384 individual FTA elements consisting of 6mm diameter disks. Each disk is compressed into a 3mm x 3mm well, forming a cup-shaped receptacle for 100L of blood. By using the GenVault elution...

Conclusions.
December 1, 2003... GenVault has developed a new tool for molecular biology that allows high density, room temperature storage and retrieval of DNA samples. The samples can be stored directly without additional purification until desired. A relational database is...