Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from May 2006

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from May 2006

NANOFILTRATION HYDRACoRe Saves Sugar Plant Money.
May 1, 2006... Increasingly, sugar technologists are under pressure to eliminate industrial pollution and upgrade their product's quality, while optimizing energy consumption. Hydranautics representatives report that their chemical-tolerant elements, a module...

Virus Filter Features Controllable Pores.
May 1, 2006... Researchers at South Korea's Pohang University of Science and Technology, in collaboration with a group at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, have devised a new method for fabricating a double-layered nanoporous membrane with easily...

Nanofiltration Patents Patent No.: 7,022,366 Method for tartaric stabilization of wine.
May 1, 2006... Inventors: Ferrarini; Roberto (Verona, IT) Assignee: Enologica Vason S.r.L. (Pedemonte, IT) A method for tartaric stabilization, in particular for wine, and an apparatus for its implementation are provided. The wine to be treated is...

MICROFILTRATION Hybrid Filters Speed Bioprocessing.
May 1, 2006... Pall Corp. has developed two high flow, hybrid, membrane sterilizing grade cartridge filters that significantly improve production throughput for protein-based biotech drugs. The Supor UEKV and Fluorodyne EX are expected to give the biotech...

WF-3 Filters Wine from Fermentation to Bottle.
May 1, 2006... Koch Membrane Systems, Inc. has launched the Winefilter WF-3 crossflow MF system, a complete package designed to provide a single filtration step from fermentation to bottle, for small- to medium-sized wineries. The WF-3 decreases the cost of...

Microfiltration Patent Patent No.: 7,026,004 Non-gelling milk concentrates.
May 1, 2006... Inventors: Loh; Jimbay P. (Green Oaks, IL); Laye; Isabelle (Wheeling, IL); Hyde; Michael Anthony (Wheeling, IL); Lindstrom; Ted R. (Lake Forest, IL); Mei; Fu-I (Wheeling, IL); Diaz-Castillo; Omar (Chicago, IL) Assignee: Kraft Foods...

ULTRAFILTRATION Tri-Layer Structure Treats Oil-in-Water Emulsions.
May 1, 2006... Chemical engineers at China's Sichuan University have fabricated fouling-resistant ceramic-supported polymer composite membranes for the removal of oil-in-water microemulsions. At an operating pressure of 0.4MPa, the membrane permeability...

Reliable Process Development Using Smaller Volumes.
May 1, 2006... To address the critical need for affordable testing equipment that reliably processes small sample volumes, Pall Corp. has launched two tangential flow filtration (TFF) systems, the Minim II and Centramate 500 TFF systems. The units are...

Ultrafiltration Patents Patent No.: 7,022,238 Immersion type membrane filter.
May 1, 2006... Inventors: Eguchi; Tamiyuki (Kobe, JP); Tanso; Shiro (Takatsuki, JP); Murakami; Naoki (Takatsuki, JP); Hayashi; Nobuo (Takatsuki, JP); Okuda; Seiji (Takatsuki, JP) Assignee: Yuasa Corp. (Osaka, JP) An immersion type membrane comprised...

Patent No.: 7,033,636 Low cholesterol, functional, animal muscle protein composition and process.
May 1, 2006... Inventors: Kelleher; Stephen D. (Wakefield, MA) Assignee: Proteus Industries, Inc. (Gloucester, MA) A low cholesterol protein composition derived from animal muscle tissue is provided. The low cholesterol protein composition is added to...

REVERSE OSMOSIS ADC Breaks Energy Barrier.
May 1, 2006... At the U.S. Navy's Seawater Desalination Test Facility in Port Hueneme, CA, the Affordable Desalination Collaboration (ADC) has completed the first of three scheduled tests and has already broken the 7.6-kWh per 1,000 gallon (kgal) energy...

Bike-Powered System Puts on the Pressure.
May 1, 2006... Researchers from Nanyang Technological University's Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering have developed a bicycle-powered water treatment system that generates sufficient pressure to push clean water past the membrane. Believed to...

ELECTROCHEMICAL PEM Materials Boost Power Density.
May 1, 2006... University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers say they have developed a new fluoropolymer membrane material, manufactured by a simple, solventless process, that boosts the performance of fuel cells and could be a major step toward...

Electrochemical Membrane Patents Patent No.: 7,022,810 Proton exchange membrane materials for the advancement of direct methanol fuel-cell technology.
May 1, 2006... Inventor: Cornelius; Christopher J. (Albuquerque, NM) Assignee: Sandia Corp. (Albuquerque, NM) Sandia Labs patent involves a new class of hybrid organic-inorganic materials, and methods of synthesis, that can be used as proton exchange...

Patent No.: 7,022,427 Membrane for a fuel cell and method for producing the same.
May 1, 2006... Inventors: Biegert; Hubertus (Unterkirnach, DE); Britz; Peter (Frankenberg, DE); Toth; Gabor (Illertissen-Jedesheim, DE); Urban; Peter (Amberg, DE) Assignee: Ballard Power Systems, Inc. (Burnaby, CA) The invention relates to a thin,...

Low equivalent weight ionomer Patent No.: 7,022,428.
May 1, 2006... Inventors: Wu; Huey Shen (Newark, DE); Martin; Charles W. (Avondale, PA); Chen; Xin Kang (Shanghai, CN) Assignee: Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc. (Newark, DE) Gore Enterprise Holdings' inventors describe an ionomer particularly well...

MARKETS Water Reuse Growing In U.S.
May 1, 2006... A recently released report from Business Communications Co. predicts that water recycling in the U.S. will grow substantially over the next five to ten years, and membrane systems will be crucial to increasing water reuse. In Water...

INDUSTRY NEWS Canadian Collaboration To Improve MBRs.
May 1, 2006... Researchers at the University of Guelph, the University of British Columbia, the University of Manitoba, Ryerson University, and the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, as well as industry and municipal partners have begun a million-dollar,...

NSF Certifies Koch Elements.
May 1, 2006... Koch Membrane Systems, Inc. has received certification of compliance with NSF/ANSI Standard 61 for several of its NF and RO elements: Fluid Systems brand TFC-SR, TFC-S, TFC-HR, TFC-XR and TFC-ULP spirals, in sizes from 8-inch to 18-inches in...

Event to Address Process Intensification.
May 1, 2006... Slated for June 11-15 in Calabria, Italy, Advanced Membrane Technology III: Membrane Engineering for Process Intensification will cover progress in membrane engineering and its strong relation with the process intensification strategy. Process...

FINANCIAL NEWS Last Month In the Markets.
May 1, 2006... With most membrane companies logging slight price losses or gains in April, three firms posted significant stock increases during the month. Millipore Corp. shares rose by more than $5.00 to $75.25 following the April 25 announcement, the...

CALENDAR.
May 1, 2006... June 11-15, ACE06, American Water Works Association Annual Conference & Exposition, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, TX. Contact: AWWA, 6666 W. Quincy Ave., Denver, CO 80235; Tel: 303/794-7711, Fax: 303/347-0804 June...

(((BRIEFS))) ACQUISITIONS.
May 1, 2006... Hyflux Buys Stake in Dutch Manufacturer Water treatment company Hyflux Ltd. (Singapore) has purchased a 51% stake in CEPAration BV (Helmond, The Netherlands) for $1.8 million. As part of the deal, CEPAration grants Hyflux exclusive license to...

DEALS.
May 1, 2006... PolyFuel to Supply Johnson Matthey PolyFuel (Mountain View, CA) will provide Johnson Matthey (London, U.K,) with its hydrocarbon direct methanol fuel cell membrane for fuel cells to power portable devices. Under the terms of the deal, Johnson...

PRODUCTS.
May 1, 2006... FilmTec Upgrades ROSA Software To meet growing global demand for RO membrane systems, FilmTec Corp. (Midland, MI) has introduced ROSA 6.1.1, the latest version of its Reverse Osmosis System Analysis (ROSA) design software. ROSA assists end...

PROJECTS.
May 1, 2006... ESG Breaks Ground on Methane Recovery Plant Energy Systems Group (ESG, Newburgh, IN) has broken ground at Johnson City, TN's Iris Glen landfill for a $5 million methane recovery plant based on membrane filtration. Using the membrane system, ESG...

RESEARCH.
May 1, 2006... Magnetization Improves Blood Protein Recovery Researchers at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (People's Republic of China) are examining the influence of magnetization on the performance of ferric oxide/polyacrylonitrile...

PEOPLE.
May 1, 2006... Koch Hires Director for Latin America Koch Membrane Systems, Inc. (KMS, Wilmington, MA) has hired Steen Hedetoft as the new commercial director for its Latin American territory. Hedetoft will work from the company's office in Sao Paulo, Brazil...

INDUSTRY INSIGHT.
May 1, 2006... Use of Membrane Filtration in the Recycling and Reuse of Processing Water in the Food Industry By Heather M. Nelson, Rakesh K. Singh, Romeo T. Toledo, Horacio Saravia (Food Science & Technology Department, 211 Food Science Building, Cedar...

Getting Enough Water.
May 1, 2006... The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has regulations allowing reconditioned water to replace potable water in the chilling step in certain pre-determined rations based on meeting minimum percent reductions and light transmission values...

Technology.
May 1, 2006... The filtration module is designed to be a submerged module with the membranes and sparging bars submerged in the liquid to be filtered. This type of module uses less energy because the liquid does not need to be pumped to or through the system....

Small Test Unit.
May 1, 2006... To begin the study of the bioreactor, a smaller version is being built to determine the best retention times for water quality, cleaning regimes, microbial seeding material, and possibly study the use of membranes with different pore sizes or...