Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from January 2001

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from January 2001

OUTLOOK: 2001 Conference Ends Year with Look Ahead.
January 1, 2001... While recognizing major industrial membrane applications for food and dairy, beverages, electrocoat paint, wastewater, biopharmaceuticals, desalination, and gas separation, Koch Membrane Systems Vice President Mahesh Mehta pegs membrane market...

ULTRAFILTRATION: SpinTek Launches Tank Top System.
January 1, 2001... SpinTek has developed a portable TankTop T3 that links the company's award-winning ceramic membrane technology to any gallon- size tank, removing and concentrating emulsions and suspended solids from oily water. Launched at the Filtration...

CeraMem Reinvents Both Product & Self.
January 1, 2001... After a heady rise and a stunning crash, CeraMem Corp. is reinventing its cross-flow ceramic membranes. CeraMem VP Bruce Bishop describes the company's dedication to "perseverance and ceramic membranes." Founded in 1986, CeraMem was...

GAS SEPARATIONS: Hollow Fibers Yield Xe, HCl.
January 1, 2001... Carbon Membranes, Ltd. has developed two highly selective gas separation systems based on the company's hollow-fiber carbon molecular sieve membranes: the first separates xenon from gas mixtures containing nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide;...

PERVAPORATION: Nafion Modules Dry Gas Samples.
January 1, 2001... Perma Pure has developed modules that incorporate Nafion membrane tubing in a pervaporative dryer that prepares gas samples for process control or environmental monitoring. Hot, wet, and dirty, gas analytes must be made cool, dry, and clean...

BIOMEDICAL AND BIOMEMBRANES Membrane Monitors Cholesterol Levels.
January 1, 2001... Lifestream Technologies' Personal Cholesterol Monitor incorporates diagnostic membranes and an embedded Smartcard reader in a handheld home unit that provides quick, accurate assays between doctor's visits, allowing patients to share test...

COMPONENTS: Housings Lower Bioprocess Costs.
January 1, 2001... Sartorius Corp. has developed MaxiCap polypropylene housings, designed for aseptic filtration in biotech/pharmaceuticals, bringing the ease of disposable, single-use cartridges to large- scale bioprocessing and eliminating the need for...

RESEARCH: Bristles Segregate Surface, Resist Fouling.
January 1, 2001... A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) materials scientist, Anne Mayes, has discovered an alternative to immersion precipitation - forming filtration membranes from a amphiphilic comb polymer, composed of a hydrophobic backbone lined...

MARKETS AND APPLICATIONS Israeli Shortages Boost Desalination.
January 1, 2001... Predicted water shortages, have impelled Israel's cabinet to allocate ILS3 billion ($740 million) during the next three years for projects to increase available fresh water supplies for residential use and recycled wastewater for agricultural...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Praxair Leads Clean Fuel Team.
January 1, 2001... The Department of Energy (DOE) has chosen Praxair, Inc. to head up one of eight teams pioneering methods to produce ultraclean transportation fuels that will meet stringent tail pipe emission standards expected by 2010. To reach the...

Financing Boosts Liver Development.
January 1, 2001... Circe Biomedical, Inc. has received $28 million in private equity funding to continue developing the HepatAssist Liver Support System, a hollow-fiber membrane reactor seeded with living liver cells. The financing, provided by Asahi Chemical...

In the News.
January 1, 2001... Cuno Reports Record Year. Cuno, Inc. (Meriden, CT) has reported record results for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2000. Worldwide sales of $243.1 million were up 10% (12% in local currency) from $220.6 million in 1999. Net income for fiscal...

Personnel Updates.
January 1, 2001... Ionics Selects Financial Officers. Ionics, Inc. (Watertown, MA) has appointed Daniel M. Kuzmak as vice president and chief financial officer. Gary W. Groom will join Ionics as vice president for project finance and treasurer. Kuzmak joins...

Recent Patents.
January 1, 2001... Ozone Treatment Improves Permselectivity. In U.S. Patent 6,156,381, MG Generon (Malvern, PA) describes a method for improving permselectivity of a gas separation membrane by modifying the membrane surface via ozone treatment. The membrane has...

Selected Abstracts.
January 1, 2001... Air Injection Creates Higher Flux, Lower Energy Consumption. Applied to a ceramic flat sheet membrane during cross-flow filtration of a commercially available baker's yeast suspension, Gilbert Durand, a researcher at the Centre de Bioing nierie...

Calendar.
January 1, 2001... March 4-7, 2001, Membrane Technology Conference, San Antonio, TX. Contact: AWWA; Tel: 303/347-6194; Email: chaas@awwa.org. April 22-25, 2001, Third NSF International Symposium and Technology Expo on Small Drinking Water and Wastewater...

INDUSTRY INSIGHT The Challenge of Bringing a Metal Membrane to Market.
January 1, 2001... Robert Herrmann, President, Ellipsis Corp., 1735 Viewpoint Rd., Boulder, CO 80305 When considering the development and commercialization of any technical product, a number of factors and questions need to be addressed and answered prior to...

The Method.
January 1, 2001... How did the Metal-O-Pore membrane filters evolve, how good are they, and what differentiates them from conventionally sintered metal filters? In 1996, the Department of Energy made the decision to close Rocky Flats as an active site...

Quantifying Factors.
January 1, 2001... Decreasing absolute pore size - Absolute pore diameters measured by an independent laboratory were shown to be less than 0.2 m, hence capable of removing Pseudomonas diminuta from aqueous streams. Increasing permeability - The following...

The Long, Long Road.
January 1, 2001... Initially, it was thought that the best approach, which would offer the greatest potential return to investors, would be to manufacture systems using Ellipsis' filtration technology and market them directly, rather than attempt to market...