Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from July 2004

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from July 2004

MICROFILTRATION: Showerhead Filter Removes Legionella.
July 1, 2004... Pall Corp. launched its new Aquasafe (AQL3) water filter on the European market at the 19th annual meeting of the European Working Group for Legionella Infections (EWGLI) in Chamonix Mont-blanc, France. The disposable, clip-on, point-of-use...

Hydrophilizing PVDF Without Brittleness.
July 1, 2004... Meissner researchers have patented a process for rendering a microporous PVDF membrane hydrophilic without making it brittle, lowering its heat resistance during sterilization, or producing extractables that may corrupt the fluid being...

Fluorogard Approved For French Wafer Fab.
July 1, 2004... Altis Semiconductor, a wafer fabricator that manufactures state of the art electronic components as small as 0.13m has qualified Mykrolis Fluorogard RS product line for photochemical stripping. Altis will install Fluorogard RS membrane filters...

REVERSE OSMOSIS: UK Building First Desalination Plant.
July 1, 2004... Thames Water, the London-based, German-owned utility, will invest $367 million to build Britains first desalination plant and offset increasing water shortages. The plant will use RO technology to treat 40 million gallons of water per day,...

NEWater Technology to Be Used for Reservoir.
July 1, 2004... Singapore plans to build a new reservoir in its central business district via the advanced membrane technology developed to produce NEWater, the citys treated, recycled wastewater used for industrial process water and drinking water. Water...

POU System Approved for Perchlorate.
July 1, 2004... Watts Premier, a subsidiary of Watts Water Technologies Inc. has completed both NSF and California Department of Health Services (Cal DHS) certification for the reduction of perchlorate from drinking water on their line of residential RO...

NOVEL: Electric Current Kills Infectious Agents.
July 1, 2004... A research team from Tokyo University of Technology has developed a membrane that destroys infectious agents, such as Legionella bacteria, found in bathwater, using electromagnetic induction, a phenomenon in which an electric current passes...

BIOMEDICAL & BIOMEMBRANE: Growing Transplant Corneas in the Lab.
July 1, 2004... A surgeon from Tokyo Women's Medical University has devised a membrane-based procedure for growing corneal transplants in a lab dish. The technique permits doctors to grow whole corneas in an incubator from a minuscule amount of donated tissue,...

eFlow Delivers Aerosol Drugs.
July 1, 2004... The FDA has granted 510(k) market clearance to PARI GmbHs eFlow, a small, silent electronic aerosol drug delivery device for patients with cystic fibrosis and other chronic lung diseases. At the core of the eFlow is a stainless steel membrane...

Bandage Uses Patients Own Cells.
July 1, 2004... CellTran Ltd, a spinoff from the University of Sheffield, has developed a bandage called Myskin for slow-healing wounds and burns that combines polymer surface engineering and the patients own (autologous) cells. CellTran makes Myskin by...

Pilot Plant Targets Food, Beverages.
July 1, 2004... GEA Filtration has developed a pilot plant for the food and beverage industry that gives processors an opportunity to test filtration membranes before implementation. The new Model M plant allows manufacturers to find the most efficient, lowest...

MATERIALS: Thin Films Fabricated as Orderly Monolayers.
July 1, 2004... Nanometrix, Inc. has devised a platform technology for continuously fabricating rolls of ultra-thin structured and oriented films ranging from 1 nanometer to more than 300 microns thick by rolling particles onto a substrate in a rapid,...

Cavitation Permits Precise Nanomachining.
July 1, 2004... NanoSpire, Inc. is commercializing a nanotech toolkit and process based on cavitation microjets that form in liquids. The technology, which enables the machining of micron and submicron- sized holes and channels with high aspect ratios, offers...

INDUSTRY NEWS: CHF, Fresenius Ink Agreement.
July 1, 2004... CHF Solutions has signed a service provider agreement with Fresenius Medical Care Extracorporeal Alliance under which Fresenius will provide treatment using CHFs Aquadex System 100 in current and future hospitals Fresenius serves. Aquadex is an...

NY Rabbis Seek Kosher Water.
July 1, 2004... New York City restaurants and bakeries operated under Orthodox Jewish law have been advised by the Central Rabbinical Council to use filters that ensure water purity. Reports of the presence of copepods, millimeter-long crustaceans that do not...

FilmTec to Build Manufacturing Plant.
July 1, 2004... Dow Chemicals FilmTec Corp. plans to more than double the current square footage of its existing membrane manufacturing plant at a new facility in Minneapolis, MN. The new plant will house additional membrane lines, new fabrication cells...

Tampa Bay Sues to Fix Desal Plant.
July 1, 2004... Tampa Bay Water has turned to the courts to pursue the $24 million performance bond posted by two insurance companies, Zurich American and Fidelity of Maryland, and membrane manufacturer Hydranautics that was to ensure the RO seawater...

Briefly Noted:.
July 1, 2004... * GE Energy (Atlanta, GA) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire BHA Group Holdings, Inc. in an all cash transaction for $260 million. Based in Kansas City, MO, BHA supplies parts, services and engineered upgrades to reduce particulate...

COMMENTARY: "Unproven" Process in Use Worldwide.
July 1, 2004... As more communities contemplate the installation of RO desalination plants to increase water supplies, opponents of proposed facilities often describe the process as new or unproven to discourage its implementation. Commercialized in the early...

CALENDAR.
July 1, 2004... October 2-6, WEFTEC 2004, 77th Technical Exhibition & Conference, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA. Contact: Water Environment Federation, 601 Wythe Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-1994; Tel: 703/684-2452, Fax: 703/684-2471,...

INDUSTRY INSIGHT Low Cost Synthesis Gas Production.
July 1, 2004... By Susanne Olsen, Edward Gobina, Centre for Process Integration and Membrane Technology, School of Engineering, The Robert Gordon University, Schoolhill, Aberdeen AB10 1FR, Great Britain According to a recent estimate, almost 5,000...

Natural Gas to Syngas.
July 1, 2004... Almost all options for methane (the main component of natural gas) transformation involve its initial conversion to syngas (CO + H2). Syngas can yield liquid hydrocarbons through the F-T reaction over Group VIII transition metal catalysts or...

Membrane Technology.
July 1, 2004... The primary advantage of utilizing the enhanced membrane reactor configuration is that it provides a safer reaction environment, and this allows operations at conditions that could be hazardous in a more conventional fixed bed reactor. In the...

Results and Discussion.
July 1, 2004... It is well recognized that the partial oxidation of methane may occur via two distinct mechanisms, i.e., direct partial oxidation or total oxidation followed by reforming reactions. In order to elucidate the mechanism for the catalytic reactor...