Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from March 2003

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from March 2003

REVERSE OSMOSIS: Tubular Modules Save Money, Steps.
March 1, 2003... PCI Membranes reports that the sugary, stem-containing wastewater produced in the rinsing of raisins can be recycled within the fruit-packaging plant or used for irrigation via filtration and sugar concentration using tubular RO membranes. The...

ULTRAFILTRATION: Gradiflow Validated for Prion Removal.
March 1, 2003... An independent Scottish laboratory has verified Gradipore's Gradiflow separations platform for the successful isolation and removal of infectious and non-infectious prion proteins (PrP) from human biological samples. Validation of the...

VSEP P-50 Targets Low-Flow Applications.
March 1, 2003... New Logic Research, Inc. has added an ultra-compact vibratory membrane system to its line of VSEP (Vibratory Shear Enhanced Processing) products. The ultra-compact P-50 unit is aimed at applications with process flows up to five gallons per...

Real Time Desaltaer Effluent Treatment.
March 1, 2003... New Logic Research, Inc. has introduced a UF system designed to treat crude oil desalter effluent in real time and at the source, reducing demand on a refinery's waste treatment system and eliminating a processing bottleneck. Crude oils...

GAS SEPARATION: Aligning Molecules Enhances Selectivity.
March 1, 2003... Researchers from Scotland's University of Strathclyde have patented "super selective" hollow fiber gas separation membranes in which the membrane's active layer is made by orienting elongated polymer molecules longitudinally parallel to the...

Hybrid Inorganics for Superior Separations.
March 1, 2003... Membrane scientists at The Robert Gordon University have developed novel inorganic hybrid membranes that might enhance natural gas production in the North Sea's offshore oilfields. The robust ceramic composites could separate contaminant carbon...

BIOMEDICAL & BIOMEMBRANE: DiscoverLight Arrays User Customizable.
March 1, 2003... Pierce Biotechnology has introduced a line of simple, convenient kits for studying protein-protein interactions and profiling antibody binding and specificity that permit the researcher to array their own proteins or antibodies on gridded...

Clontech's Reverse Formatting Preserves Sample Complexity.
March 1, 2003... BD Biosciences Clontech has expanded its line of reverse-format patient and cell-line cDNA arrays with three nylon membrane-based arrays that permit researchers to screen target genes in normal and cancerous human tissues and cell lines,...

Artificial Ion Channel Pumps Against Potential.
March 1, 2003... Researchers from Germany's Silesian University of Technology and Jagellonian University in Poland have made a synthetic ion channel, using an electrical field and a conical pore punched in a thin polymer film, which draws potassium ions across...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Roadmap Course to Water Supply.
March 1, 2003... The Bureau of Reclamation and Sandia Laboratories have released the jointly authored Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap, a presentation of U.S. water supply challenges and recommendations for R&D areas that could lead to...

NEWater Pumped into Singapore's Reservoirs.
March 1, 2003... On February 21st, Singapore's plans for water self sufficiency moved closer to completion as NEWater, a "toilet-to-tap" RO- processed product derived from wastewater, was pumped for the first time into the nation's reservoirs. According to...

NSF Funds Advanced Materials Center.
March 1, 2003... The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received funding from the National Science Foundation to create a center for the development of advanced materials, including membranes, for water purification. The grant will provide $20...

Jupiter Cans Plans to Bottle Tap Water.
March 1, 2003... The City of Jupiter, FL, has decided not to bottle its award- winning RO-processed municipal drinking water and enter the packaged water market. Revenues generated by the bottled water business would have been used to offset increases in water...

Homebuilders Add Water Treatment.
March 1, 2003... Culligan's new CleanWater Home Program gives homebuilders the opportunity to customize water treatment systems in homes as they are built, based on regional water quality and the homeowners' personal preferences. Designed as a partnership...

Revenue Stream from Wastewater Plant.
March 1, 2003... The City of Redlands, CA is constructing an MF wastewater treatment plant that will reduce demand on the city's potable water supply and increase total water resources by 20%, while keeping the plant in full compliance with new regulatory...

GEA Expands Standard Pilot Plant Line.
March 1, 2003... GEA Filtration is launching a second version of its standard Model R membrane filtration pilot plant line designed to test membrane applications that employ non-water based solvents with potentially explosive characteristics. The new Model...

AbioCor Heart Undergoing Redesign.
March 1, 2003... The longest surviving AbioCor heart recipient has died after wear on the device's membrane led to its failure. Engineers who designed the TAH (total artificial heart) knew that durability of the membrane posed a potential problem, and...

Gradipore Gains Entry to Chinese IVIG Market.
March 1, 2003... Gradipore, Inc. has entered into an agreement with Hong Kong's Advantek Biologics Ltd. for a three-stage application of Gradiflow separations technology in intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) fractionation. After the initial phase of the...

Briefly Noted:.
March 1, 2003... * USFilter (Palm Desert, CA) will supply its Memcor continuous microfiltration (CMF) as pretreatment to three RO systems at Nuclear Management Co.'s (Hudson, WI) Point Beach nuclear power plant in Two Rivers, WI. The three CMF units are...

CALENDAR.
March 1, 2003... March 18-20, 9th Aachen Membrane Collogium, Aachen, Germany. Contact: Johannes Meier, Institut fr Verfahrenstechnik der RWTH Aachen, Turmstrae 46 D-52056 Aachen, Germany; Tel.: +49 241 80- 95428, Fax: +49 241 80-92252, email:...

INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Nanofiltration in DI Rinse Recycle - A Case Study.
March 1, 2003... By James A. Hunt, President, DI Water, Inc., 25 Oakland St., Amesbury, MA 01913 This rinse water case study contains several valuable lessons. Membranes play a starring role in rinse reclaim; system failures are more often the fault of the...

Design Parameters.
March 1, 2003... The first step in system design is to determine what is, and establish what it should be. This cannot be done in the offices, but requires extensive interviews with the plant engineers and the floor personnel that use or will use the system....

Eliminating Biogrowth.
March 1, 2003... Key to a successful design is the elimination (reduction) of bio- growth. We took a two-step approach. We included in-line UV lights to keep bio-growth down. The seond step is an automatic sanitizing system. Understanding that there is not a...

Conclusions.
March 1, 2003... Our experience with this rinse water reclaim recycle application confirms several beliefs. Membranes play a key role in recycling water, and NF is particularly well suited to this situation. All water reuse systems need frequent sanitization,...