Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from January 1999

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from January 1999

REVERSE OSMOSIS: Ion Free Water Possible with Double Pass Unit.
January 19, 1999... Use of single-pass reverse osmosis (RO) as an ion removal technique in high and ultrahigh purity water applications, with subsequent polishing deionization, has increased dramatically over the last decade. However, the ability of double-pass...

Polymer Has Links in Main Chain.
January 19, 1999... Howard M. Colquhoun and Andrew L. Lewis of North West Water Group PLC (Dawson, Warrington WA5 3LW, U.K.) discovered a polymer with "- ylid" linkages in its main polymer formula chain. The easily-prepared polymer can be either unbranched or...

Market May Reach $1.3 Billion by 2003.
January 19, 1999... Market analysts at Business Communications Co., Inc. (BCC, 25 Van Zant St., Suite 13, Norwalk, CT 06855; Tel: 203/853-4266, Fax: 203/853- 0348) have predicted that the market for reverse osmosis modules and equipment, currently estimated at...

Surface Effects Characterized.
January 19, 1999... Experimental and theoretical investigations into the performance of polymeric reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) membranes have been a major research focus of University of California, Los Angeles department of civil and...

BIOMEDICAL: Raising Blood Filtration Flow.
January 19, 1999... A blood purification membrane and module has been described by scientists at Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha (Osaka, Japan) and awarded U.S. Patent 5,851,394. The membrane has a thickness of 10 to 35 microns and a porosity of 50 to 85%, with a...

INDUSTRY NEWS: NATCO Group Buys Cynara Co.
January 19, 1999... NATCO Group, Inc. (2905 North Loop West, Suite 750, Houston, TX 77092; Tel: 713/683-9292, Fax: 713/685-8076) has acquired the Cynara Co. (2925 Briarpark, Suite 1200, Houston, TX 77042; Tel: 713/975-8881, Fax: 713/975-9611). Cynara specializes...

BioSepra Acquires BioSphere Medical.
January 19, 1999... BioSepra, Inc. (140 Locke Dr., Marlborough, MA 01752; Tel: 508/481-6802, Fax: 508/480-8785) has signed an agreement to acquire 51% of the outstanding equity of BioSphere Medical SA, a medical device company located in France. BioSphere Medical...

Osmonics Combines Business Units.
January 19, 1999... Osmonics, Inc. (5951 Clearwater Dr., Minnetonka, MN 55343-8995; Tel: 800/355-9950 or 612/933-2277) has acquired Micron Separations, Inc. (135 Flanders Rd., Box 1046, Westborough, MA 01581-1046; Tel: 508/366- 8212, Fax: 508/366-5840). Osmonics...

Cuno Cuts Costs, Improves Business.
January 19, 1999... CUNO, Inc. (400 Research Pkwy., Meriden, CT 06450; Tel: 203/237-5541, Fax: 203/238-8977) reported fiscal 1998 sales of $198.8 million, an increase of over 6% compared with 1997 sales of $187.5 million. On a currency adjusted basis, 1998...

Pall Picked for Municipal Water.
January 19, 1999... The San Patricio Municipal Water District has selected Pall's (2200 Northern Blvd., East Hills, NY 11548; Tel: 516/484-5400) membrane microfiltration system for its new 5.2 million gallons per day facility. Tests concluded that Pall provides...

Amicon/Millipore Wed with Successful Strategy.
January 19, 1999... The successful integration of two major membrane companies, Amicon and Millipore, highlights many of the challenges and a mostly successful way around them, according to Robert Spillman, Ph.D. and director of R&D, analytical division,...

Water, Wastewater Treatments Increasing.
January 19, 1999... The U.S. market for membranes used for water and wastewater treatment will grow at roughly 8% a year through the year 2003, according to an industry consultant. Chemical Technology Consultants' (10101 Fondren Rd., Suite 227, Houston, TX 77096;...

NIST Grant to Osmonics, Cargill.
January 19, 1999... Osmonics (5951 Clearwater Dr., Minnetonka, MN 55343-8990; Tel: 612/933-2277, Fax: 612/933-0141) and Cargill, Inc. (PO Box 5697, Minneapolis, MN 55440-5697) will investigate under a five-year, $3.75 million grant from the National Institute of...

GAS SEPARATIONS: Ion Transport Module Purifies.
January 19, 1999... Praxair (777 Old Saw Mill Rd., Tarrytown, NY 10591; Tel: 914/789-2748, Fax: 914/789-2026) researchers have developed hybrid solid electrolyte ionic conductor systems for purifying inert gases (U.S. Patent 5,851,266). For many years...

Next Generation Blowbacks Due Soon.
January 19, 1999... The removal of elutriated fines from numerous types of off-gas applications has long been an area of economic and environmental concern for refiners, petrochemical, and chemical producers, as well as waste incineration and power generation...

Reducing the Cost of Producing Oxygen.
January 19, 1999... Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (7201 Hamilton Blvd., Allentown, PA 18195; Tel: 610/481-4911, Fax: 610/481-6642) kicked off a $25 million program to cut the cost of producing oxygen from air by one third. The project is sponsored by the DOE...

MICROFILTRATION: The Shape of Things to Come.
January 19, 1999... Millipore S.A., a subsidiary of Millipore Corp. (80 Ashby Rd., Bedford, MA 01730; Tel: 617/275-9200, Fax: 617/275-5550), has described an elliptical filtration unit (U.S. Patent 5,851,390). A filtration unit containing a filtering membrane, a...

Removal and Recovery Approach.
January 19, 1999... The use of microfiltration membrane-based sorbents containing multiple functional groups is a novel technique to achieve high metal sorption under convective flow conditions. Researchers at the University of Kentucky (Dept. of Chemical and...

Getting More Beer from the Sediments.
January 19, 1999... Memtech U.K. (Lion Way, Morriston, Swansea, SA79FB, U.K.) is offering the brewing industry a process that uses ceramic membranes to recover and clarify virtually all the beer or cider from sedimented tank bottoms. This process uses the...

In Situ Formation Offers Flexibility.
January 19, 1999... Membrane processes are now widely used for producing potable water, but the market for their use in treating industrial wastewaters has been slower to develop. According to Rodney Squires of Hi-Tech Water, Inc. (3055 N. Sunnyside Ave., Fresno,...

Designing Dynamic Formation in Crossflow.
January 19, 1999... Muhammad H. Al-Malack of KFUPM (Box 1150, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia) and G. K. Anderson (The University, Civil Engineering Dept., Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, U.K.) have looked into the feasibility of utilizing the phenomenon of dynamic...

Cross-Rotation Fouls Blockages.
January 19, 1999... The CR 550/40 Cross-Rotational membrane separation system, available from Kromline-Sanderson Engineering Corp. (12 Holland Ave., Peapack, NJ 07977-0257; Tel: 908/234-1008, ext. 240), is suitable for chemical process, food, pharmaceutical,...

ULTRAFILTRATION Clean and Green.
January 19, 1999... According to Pieter Overdevest of Wageningen Agricultural University (Food and Biprocess Engineering Group, PO Box 8129, 6700 EV Wageningen, The Netherlands), consumers aren't the only ones demanding environmentally-friendly products....

QUALITY CONTROL: Sensor Film Indicates Pressure Accurately.
January 19, 1999... Manufacturing techniques for sheet membranes and hollow fibers necessitate accurate pressure control. To meet this need, Sensor Products, Inc. (188 Route 10, Suite 307, East Hanover, NJ 07936-2108; Tel: 973/884-1755, Fax: 973/884-1699) has...

NANOFILTRATION: PCI Membrane Unveils Reco-CIP.
January 19, 1999... PCI Membrane Systems (Laverstoke Mill, Whitchurch, Hampshire RG28 7NR, U.K.) has unveiled a new system for the recovery of chemicals using the company's newly developed, pH-resistant, tubular nanofiltration membrane. The Reco-CIP system...