Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from January 2005

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from January 2005

A LOOK BACK, A LOOK AHEAD 2004: A Year of Solid Growth.
January 1, 2005... At year-end 2004, reported financial results reflect solid growth for the membrane industry, while new technological developments and market demand hold the promise of continued future strength. As the U.S. economy rebounded, many membrane...

MICROFILTRATION: Beverage Filters Cut Spoilage.
January 1, 2005... Millipore Vitipore II and Vitipore II Plus cartridge filters are now available for the removal of beverage-spoiling particles and microorganisms. The high throughput, low binding filter cartridges are suitable for the microbiological...

ULTRAFILTRATION: Speeding Fruit Fly Genome Studies.
January 1, 2005... Researchers at Harvard Medical Schools Drosophila RNAi Screening Center (DRSC) have developed a screening protocol using Millipores MultiScreen PCR96, size-exclusion membrane plates for the fast, high performance purification of double-stranded...

BIOMEDICAL & BIOMEMBRANE: Artificial Cells Act as Tiny Protein Factories.
January 1, 2005... Rockefeller University researchers have created primitive synthetic cells from biomolecules enclosed in phospholipid membranes. Although they are not truly alive, and cannot replicate or evolve, the pseudo bacterial cells can churn out proteins...

Polymersomes Useful for Drug Delivery, Storage.
January 1, 2005... Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have patented biocompatible polymer vesicles, or polymersomes, consisting of semi-permeable, thin-walled encapsulating membranes. The polymersomes are capable of self-repair, adaptability,...

Resorbable Collagen Improves Dural Repair.
January 1, 2005... Collagen Matrix, Inc. has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its DuraMatrix Collagen Dura Substitute Membrane. DuraMatrix is a safe, resorbable, conformable, collagen-based membrane intended for use in the repair of dura mater, the tough,...

Double Blotting Beats Non-Specific Binding.
January 1, 2005... Millipore has announced the availability of a new western blotting technique using the companys Immobilon-P and PSQ transfer membranes. The double blotting method was developed by Dr. Franoise Lasne of the National Anti-Doping Laboratory in...

PERVAPORATION: Silicon-Based Polymer Preserves Natural Flavors.
January 1, 2005... Scientists at The Netherlands Agrotechnology and Food Innovations Institute (A&F), a unit of Wageningen University, have opened a pervaporation pilot plant for the enhanced production of natural flavors used in fruit juice, beer, herb and...

MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS NASA "ARMS" Space Travelers for Wastewater Recycling.
January 1, 2005... Space travelers on board the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle must conserve as much water as possible. Carrying fresh water into space takes up valuable cargo space and adds to the weight of items that may be stored. One way to...

ELECTROCHEMICAL: PolyFuel Product Outperforms Nafion.
January 1, 2005... PolyFuel, Inc. successfully pitted its hydrocarbon-based direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) membrane against Du Ponts Nafion 117 at the recent Fuel Cell Seminar in San Antonio, TX. In a real-time experiment dubbed the DMFC Challenge Demo, the...

Zeolites Keep Fuel Cells Humidified.
January 1, 2005... General Motors Corp. inventors have patented a durable, low humidification fuel cell membrane consisting of a polymer film into which water-absorbing zeolite particles are embedded. The zeolite, preferably a silica/alumina mineral such as...

NONSEPARATING: Multi-Layer Barrier Prevents "Cork Taint".
January 1, 2005... Researchers at Australia-based ProCork Pty. Ltd. have developed membrane technology that overcomes cork taint, a problem has plagued winemakers for centuries. The product, also called ProCork, consists of a proprietary five-membrane disk...

MARKET: Drinking Water Treatment Costs Continue to Drop.
January 1, 2005... Membrane technology is accepted widely for municipal drinking water treatment, and represents a U.S. market growing at 10% to 15% per year. Water industry analysts often point to the falling costs of RO as illustrative of the increased...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Short Course Reviews Basics, New Developments.
January 1, 2005... Texas A&M University will host its 15th Annual Practical Membrane & Separations Technology Short Course: Fundamentals, New Developments, Applications and Pilot Plant Demonstrations March 21 through March 24 in College Station, TX. The...

Nuclear Desal Showcased at Global Water Meeting.
January 1, 2005... A hybrid nuclear desalination plant in Southern India was the focus of a recent global meeting on water shortage sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Located at Kalpakkam, the combined RO/MSF (multistage flash distillation)...

Millipore, Caliper Offer Three New Protocols.
January 1, 2005... Millipore Corp. and Caliper Life Sciences have announced the availability of three new validated protocols to automate drug discovery. Developed for hands-free operation and maximum productivity, the methods for 96-well solubility, PAMPA...

CALENDAR.
January 1, 2005... March 6-9, Membrane Technology Conference and Exhibition, Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center, Phoenix, AZ. Contact: Elise Harrington, American Water Works Association, 6666 West Quincy Ave., Denver, CO 80235; Tel: 303/347-6138, Fax:...

BUSINESS.
January 1, 2005... Hyflux Opens R&D Center, Signs Joint Venture Deal. Hyflux, Ltd. (Singapore) has opened its new $12 million Membrane Technology Research & Development Center, an eight-story building in Kallang Bahru, Singapore. The building houses all of...

RESEARCH.
January 1, 2005... Nanocables Fabricated in Gold-Coated Template Pores. University of California (Davis, CA) chemical engineers are using nanoporous membranes as templates to fabricate nanocables for use in sensors, tiny solar cells, computer chips or other...

PRODUCTS.
January 1, 2005... Centrifugal Filter Concentrates Large Samples Faster. Millipore Corp. (Billerica, MA) has announced the availability of its Centricon Plus-70 centrifugal filter. The device contains Millipores proprietary low-binding Ultracel regenerated...

PEOPLE.
January 1, 2005... USFilter Appoints CEO. Roger Radke has been selected as the new head of Siemens Water Technology (Erlangen, Germany) and CEO of USFilter, replacing Andrew Seidel. Radke, who joined USFilter in August as COO, has served in various roles within...

FINANCIAL RESULTS.
January 1, 2005... Pall Sales Increase 11%. Pall Corp. (East Hills, NY) has reported a first quarter sales increase of 11% to $414.7 million compared to $374.3 million last year. Sales in Asia increased 24%, supported by 18% growth in Japan. The Asian growth was...

INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Applications for Transport Membrane Reactors.
January 1, 2005... By Anthony Sammells, President, Eltron Research, Inc., 4600 Nautilus Court South, Boulder, CO 80301; Tel: 303/530-0263, Fax: 303/530-0264 Oxygen transport membrane technology, under development at Eltron Research, Inc., facilitates the...

Oxygen Transport Membranes.
January 1, 2005... These dense ceramic membranes are exclusive oxygen anion conductors with oxygen anion transport proceeding from reducing to oxidizing membrane surfaces and electrons mediating from oxidizing to reducing surfaces via the membrane lattice. CMR...

A-2-xA'xB2-yB'yO5+z.
January 1, 2005... where A is an alkaline earth metal or mixture of earth metal ions; A' is a metal ion or mixture of metal ions where the metal is selected from the group consisting of the lanthanide series, or is yttrium; B is a metal ion or a mixture of metal...

Hydrogen Transport Membranes.
January 1, 2005... Over the past 15 years, Eltron Research has been working towards developing low cost hydrogen transport membranes, which would provide an opportunity for the exclusive separation of hydrogen from hydrogen-containing feedstreams, ideally from...

The Hydrogen Economy.
January 1, 2005... We have pursued numerous technical strategies towards achieving efficient hydrogen generation. This has included electrolytic, photoelectrochemical, and membrane based approaches. Because of the intrinsic technology efficiency limitations...