Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from January 2006

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from January 2006

YEAR IN REVIEW Looking Back, Looking Ahead.
January 1, 2006... At year-end, most membrane makers can look back on 2005 as a period of good growth and increased profits, and perceive a future filled with more of the same. During the year, some manufacturers sought to enhance their business through...

Products.
January 1, 2006... In the product arena, several manufacturers adopted a "bigger is better" approach with the launch of larger versions of existing products. Koch led the field by introducing bigger tubular juice clarification membranes via their Super-Cor XL,...

Research, Technology.
January 1, 2006... Scientists and biotech firms made progress in creating both artificial cells and artificial organs. Promising research at U.S. and European universities advanced the manufacture of lipid biomembranes for studying candidate drug interactions in...

NON-SEPARATING Breathable Combat Suit Keeps Toxins Out.
January 1, 2006... The Natick Soldier Center has debuted the All Purpose-Personal Protective Ensemble (AP-PPE), a chemical-biological suit incorporating selectively permeable membranes. The garment is designed to protect troops by blocking chemical and biological...

ULTRAFILTRATION Unit Protects Water From Bioagents.
January 1, 2006... U.S. Army's Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center is funding a collaborative effort among the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI), YSI Inc., the University of Cincinnati and New Mexico State University to develop a...

Purioin Popular In Rural India.
January 1, 2006... According to an online edition of The Hindu, India's national newspaper, water purifiers based on indigenously developed UF membranes that run without electricity have become hugely popular for filtering village water since their launch six...

REVERSE OSMOSIS VSEP Treats Acidic Waste Without Sludge Production.
January 1, 2006... Working under a research grant from the Florida Institute for Phosphate Research (FIPR), New Logic Research, Inc. has demonstrated the use of its vibrating RO membranes for treating acidic process water stored in large ponds known as...

MICROFILTRATION Aria Approved for Arsenic Removal.
January 1, 2006... The NSF International Drinking Water Systems Center, a partner of the EPA's Environmental Technology Verification Program, has verified Pall Corp.'s Aria MF system for the removal of arsenic from drinking water. Results of the independent...

BIOMEDICAL & BIOMEMBRANE Wearable Kidney Provides Continuous Therapy.
January 1, 2006... National Quality Care, Inc. has developed an artificial kidney that can be worn as a belt and operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Key to minimizing the device's bulk and weight is a high flux, larger membrane area dialyzer that enables...

Lipid Chip Enables Multiple Tests.
January 1, 2006... A lipid membrane chip developed at the University of Michigan (U-M) could allow researchers to make many different types of artificial cell membranes with various lipid compositions simultaneously and on the same chip. This, in turn, might make...

INDUSTRY NEWS Reclamation Bureau Funds Sixteen Desal Projects.
January 1, 2006... The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded more than $1.7 million for 16 desalination research cooperative agreements from fiscal year 2005 funding. The research is expected to help facilitate new desalination technologies and nurture innovations to...

TWFT Designed to Respond to Disaster.
January 1, 2006... Ecosphere Technologies, Inc. has signed an exclusive 5-year agreement with Pierce Manufacturing, Inc. to manufacture, market, and deliver the nation's first Tactical Water Filtration Truck (TWFT) to the military, homeland security and disaster...

CALENDAR.(Calendar)
January 1, 2006... February 2-5, Water Sources Conference & Exhibition, Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, NM. Contact: Susan Gunzner, American Water Works Association, 6666 W. Quincy Ave., Denver, CO 80235; Tel: 303/347-6210, email: sgunzner@awwa.org....

(((NEWS BRIEFS))) AWARDS.
January 1, 2006... Less Wasteful LINX Honored Frost & Sullivan (New York, NY) has presented its 2005 Technology Innovation of the Year Award for advanced water treatment technology to Pionetics Corp. (San Carlos, CA) for its drinking water purifier based on LINX...

PRODUCTS.
January 1, 2006... Square Module Cuts Capital, Operating Costs The USFilter Memcor unit (Sturbridge, MA) of Siemens Water Technologies has developed a robust square membrane module for use in Memcor MBRs. The module incorporates enhanced fiber technology in an...

PROJECTS.
January 1, 2006... Installation to Cut Milk Transport Costs Tetra Pak New Zealand (Manukau City, Auckland, NZ) will supply RO equipment to dairy co-operative Fonterra for extracting excess water from milk. The system, which will be installed at Fronterra's...

LEGISLATION.
January 1, 2006... China Mandating New Water Standards China is upgrading national drinking water standards, raising the required number of tested pollutants from 35 to 101. Much of the country's tap water contains dangerous organic and chemical pollutants....

PATENTS.
January 1, 2006... Aging Wine with Oxygen Infusion A former Stanford University engineering professor has patented a membrane method designed to speed the aging of wine (or spirits) by infusing the liquids with oxygen. In U.S. Patent 6,966,250, inventor Robert...

RESEARCH.
January 1, 2006... Composite Permits Two Different Catalysts ITM Power (London, UK) reports that the company's materials technology, which allows a wide range of properties to be engineered into its ionomeric polymers has resulted in a composite fuel cell...

FUNDING.
January 1, 2006... Rensselaer Group Receives DOE Funding Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) researchers have begun testing a new type of polymer membrane, created at Rensselaer, for potential use in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell and hydrogen...

WHO'S WHO IN MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY Looking to Nature for Selective Transport.(Interview)
January 1, 2006... This month, we spoke with Peter Holme Jensen, CEO and co-founder of AQUAporin ApS, a 2005 start up located in Copenhagen, Denmark. AQUAporin is developing membrane technology for desalination, water purification and ultrapure water production...

INDUSTRY INSIGHT Polymer Electrolyte Membranes for Fuel Cell Applications, Part 2: Challenges and Opportunities.
January 1, 2006... By Vijay Ramani, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 10 West 33rd Street; 127 PH, Chicago, IL 60616; Tel: 312/ 567-3064, Fax: 312/567-8874; email:...

Achieving Efficiency.
January 1, 2006... There are four factors that govern the operating conditions of the fuel cell. They are the reactant partial pressures at the electrodes, the inlet relative humidity of the incoming reactant streams, the cell temperature and the total system...

Besting Nafion.
January 1, 2006... There have been numerous efforts in recent years to develop PEMs conductivities superior to Nafion at high temperatures. Many of these approaches were discussed with appropriate references in part 1 of this article. With the exception of the...

Preventing Degradation.
January 1, 2006... There is overwhelming evidence to conclude that the presence of trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide and metal ion impurities initiates and sustains rapid degradation of ionomer membrane. Several mechanisms to explain this phenomenon have also...

Conclusion.
January 1, 2006... To summarize, there is considerable interest in PEM technology today, and a number of research groups worldwide, affiliated to academia, industry and governments, are working on disparate systems. Two critical roadblocks being addressed are the...