Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from July 2005

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from July 2005

ELECTROCHEMICAL: LINX Wastes Less Water.
July 1, 2005... Pionetics is commercializing the LINX 120 system, a home drinking water purification product that wastes less water than residential RO units and allows users to adjust the waters taste to suit individual preference. Designed to replace bulky...

REVERSE OSMOSIS: GrahamTek Modules Refine Desalination.
July 1, 2005... South Africa-based GrahamTek Systems has linked a number of technical improvements: a larger diameter module, two-element pressure vessel, an integrated flow distributor, applied electromagnetic fields, energy recovery devices and a modular...

Hydranautics Launches Five Improved Products.
July 1, 2005... Hydranautics has added five RO/NF elements to its lines of products for desalination, municipal water production and industrial water treatment. The new generations of membrane modules offer improvements such as enhanced salt rejection, higher...

ULTRAFILTRATION: Pre-Engineered Systems Target Small Communities.
July 1, 2005... Koch Membrane Systems, Inc. (KMS) introduced an expanded line of packaged HF (hollow fiber) UF systems. The pre-engineered systems are designed to provide a compact and cost-effective solution for small communities requiring easily installed...

GAS SEPARATION: Mobile Inerting Units Prevent Mine Explosions.
July 1, 2005... Air Liquides new Floxal inert gas generating system is an effective mobile nitrogen membrane unit that prevents gas explosions in underground mines. Compared to traditional boiler systems used in mine gas inerting, the membrane units do not...

BIOMEDICAL & BIOMEMBRANE: Pseudo Pores Advance Study of Living Cells.
July 1, 2005... A team of electrical and computer engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has devised a method for investigating living cell systems by embedding quantum dots, inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals, which form pseudo pores in artificial...

BioLung Replicates Normal Gas Exchange.
July 1, 2005... NovaLung GmbH is commercializing the first total artificial lung able to fully replace the gas exchange capabilities of the human lung using blood provided by the human heart. Key to the BioLung pumpless artificial lung is a tight...

MARS Okayed for Liver Treatment.
July 1, 2005... Gambro Renal Products has received FDA 510(k) clearance for the MARS-Molecular Adsorbents Recirculating System for removing toxins from the blood in cases of drug overdose and poisoning. MARS therapy is a blood purification system, based on...

NON-SEPARATING: Separion Suitable for HEV Batteries.
July 1, 2005... DeGussa researchers report that the Holy Grail of the automotive industry - reduced weight coupled with improved performance, could soon become reality by improving a rather neglected car component, the battery. Incorporating DeGussas Separion...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Alliance to Cut Desalination Methods.
July 1, 2005... The Bureau of Reclamation and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California have entered into a cooperative research agreement to test three RO pilot projects at Reclamations Water Quality Improvement Center in Yuma, AZ. The processes...

Cranfield MBR Projects Funded.
July 1, 2005... Cranfield University has received a funding package of nearly $1 million to bring six water treatment technologies to commercialization. Two of the technologies are based on membrane bioreactors. The funding package includes a $271,000...

CALENDAR.
July 1, 2005... August 22-23, The Future of Desalination in Texas: Membrane Desalination Workshop, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Contact: Connie Conaway, Petroleum Engineering Department, 710 Richardson Bldg., TAMU-3116, College Station,...

Call for Papers.
July 1, 2005... Membrane professionals interested in contributing to MSTs Industry Insight column may submit articles to: Susan Hanft, Editor, Membrane & Separation Technology News at shanft@cebridge.net. Submissions should run from 1,200 to 1,500 words and...

BUSINESS.
July 1, 2005... GE, Pall Expand Alliance. GE Infrastructure, Water & Process Technologies (Trevose, PA) and Pall Corp. (East Hills, NY) are expanding their strategic alliance to bring membrane technologies for desalination, water reuse and municipal water...

PROJECTS.
July 1, 2005... Algiers Project Largest in Africa. GE Infrastructure, Water & Process Technologies (Trevose, PA), the Algerian Government, the Overseas Private Investment Corp. and the Algerian Energy Co. (AEC) have announced plans to build Africas largest...

LEGISLATION.
July 1, 2005... Desalination Act Introduced in Senate. Legislation to increase the federal governments role in building RO desalination plants has been introduced for the first time in the U.S. Senate, and has been re-introduced in the U.S. House of...

FUNDING.
July 1, 2005... DOE Backing NCAT H2 Research. The DOE has awarded grants to eight institutions for energy research through the Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions program. Carried out under DOEs Office of Fossil Energy,...

RESEARCH.
July 1, 2005... Center to Advance Desalination Process. The University of Californias (Los Angeles, CA) Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has formed a Water Technology Research Center to develop improved RO technologies for turning...

PATENTS.
July 1, 2005... Angled Wells Improve Yields, Reproducibility. Millipore Corp. (Billerica, MA) has been granted U.S. Patent 6,899,810 for a multiwell UF or MF filter plate that includes a mechanism to adjust the angle of the membranes within the wells relative...

PRODUCTS.
July 1, 2005... MP4 Filters Paint Faster. Orelis (Miribel, France) has improved its popular Pleiade membrane module, a plate and frame system used widely by auto manufacturers for the ultrafiltration of electrophoretic paints. The new MP4 module offers higher...

WHO'S WHO IN MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY Pionetics Founder Brings Water Splitting Home.
July 1, 2005... Eric Nyberg is the founder and president of San Carlos, California-based Pionetics, developers of LINX technology and the first residential water purifier based on ion exchange membranes. MST: How did you become involved in membrane...

INDUSTRY INSIGHT: New Innovative UF Technologies for Membranes, Modules and Operation.
July 1, 2005... By P. Berg, inge AG, Flurstrasse 17, 86926 Greifenberg, Germany, Tel: 49 (0) 8192 997 700, Fax: 49 (0) 8192 997 999, email: pberg@inge.ag The market for ultrafiltration is changing: requiring higher reliability in operation and lower...

No Risk of Fiber Breakage.
July 1, 2005... In principle, ultrafiltration provides enormous elimination rates for particles, bacteria and even viruses, independent of the water quality. This means that highly contaminated waters can be treated effectively to produce safe drinking water....

Hydrodynamic Optimization.
July 1, 2005... In order to allow the high permeability of the membranes within the modules and guarantee an efficient cleaning of the membrane during backwash, a very low pressure loss within the membrane bundles on the permeate side is of great importance....

Multibore Grid.
July 1, 2005... The wound grids are put into the perforated inner tube, which is then inserted into the outer module body. As described above, a circular annular gap in between the outer body and the inner tube is created, which is used for permeate collection...

Rack Construction.
July 1, 2005... The construction of the module permits a space saving, cost-efficient assembly of the rack. Modules are mounted separately and vertically, providing numerous advantages: Due to the fact that a complete aeration and de-aeration is possible,...

Operation Modes Cut Costs.
July 1, 2005... When operating filtration modules, the most important factor, besides a constant pressure distribution on the permeate side, is an overflow at each position of the capillaries (crossflow). If crossflow is carried out by recirculation using an...