Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from November 2005

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from November 2005

MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS First U.S. High Rise Recycling Wastewater.
November 1, 2005... At the 20th Annual WateReuse Symposium held in Denver September 18-21, American Water engineer Michael Zavoda described wastewater treatment at The Solaire, a 293 unit residential apartment building in New York's Battery Park City, which...

MICROFILTRATION FlexDos Improves Probiotic Beverages.
November 1, 2005... Danish food ingredients manufacturer Christian Hansen A/S and Tetra Pak have developed a flexible formulation system for adding probiotic bacteria directly to finished beverage products. Using Tetra Pak's FlexDos, a dosing machine incorporating...

Pathogen Removed, Water Flow Preserved.
November 1, 2005... Prime Water International NV (PWI), formerly known as Prime Membrane Technologies NV, has launched the Prime Water Shower, an anti-Legionella shower head filter based on its Ster-O-Tap capillary MF membranes that removes greater than 99.999999...

ULTRAFILTRATION 24-Well Frame First to Integrate Dead-Stop.
November 1, 2005... At BioTechnica 2005, Vivascience debuted a reusable 24-well frame designed to be fitted with up to 24 individual Vivaspin 500 centrifugal UF filters. The vertical membrane design and built-in dead stop pocket enables fast and safe high...

Homespring First Whole Home System.
November 1, 2005... Through independent testing, Zenon's whole home Homespring UF200 series now are certified to meet the EPA's Guide Standard and Protocol for Testing Microbiological Water Purifiers. Homespring is the first series of whole home water filtration...

NANOFILTRATION Removing Sulfate Ions Preserves Fiber Quality.
November 1, 2005... Indian inventors have filed a patent application for a nanofiltration process that recovers sodium thiocyanate (NaSCN) from industrial solutions encountered in the textile industry. The technique separates NaSCN from impurities such as beta...

GAS SEPARATION Extracting H2 from Gasified Biomass.
November 1, 2005... In a DOE-funded project led by the Gas Technology Institute, researchers are developing a robust membrane for producing hydrogen from gasified agricultural wastes, including corn stalks, wood chips or switch grass. GTI's Francis Lau and a...

BIOMEDICAL & BIOMEMBRANE GE Accommodates Multiplex Detection.
November 1, 2005... GE Healthcare's new ECL Plex Western Blotting Detection System uses direct fluorescent light detection to extend the dynamic range and quantization accuracy of protein detection compared to chemilumescent systems, and eliminates the membrane...

Assay Detects Anthrax Proteins at Low Levels.
November 1, 2005... Scientists at the National Institute of Standards (NIST), the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the National Cancer Institute have developed a laboratory method for quickly detecting active anthrax proteins at...

INDUSTRY NEWS USFilter Intros Products at WEFTEC.
November 1, 2005... At WEFTEC 2005, the Water Environment Foundation's annual conference and exhibition, USFilter introduced new membranes and membrane systems for treating water and wastewater. * The Diamond Edition membrane diffuser features a unique...

Super Boiler Project Refunded.
November 1, 2005... The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected a project led by the Gas Technology Institute as one of three new combustion technology (R&D) programs that will receive nearly $2.6 million in total cost-shared funding over the next two years....

Nanoparticles Destroy Fouling Bacteria.
November 1, 2005... The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded two University of Central Florida researchers a $10,000 startup grant to develop water purifiers as part of a rapid response research program designed to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina and...

Pirnie to Develop Treatability Database.
November 1, 2005... The EPA's Office of Research and Development is funding a five-year, $2 million project led by Malcolm Pirnie to develop a comprehensive Drinking Water Treatability Database (TDB). The database will contain information regarding the...

CALENDAR.(Calendar)
November 1, 2005... December 15-20, PACIFICHEM 2005, Honolulu, HI Contact: Pacifichem 2005 Congress Secretariat, c/o American Chemical Society, 1155 16th St. N.W., Washington D.C. 20036; Fax: 202/776-8044, email: pacifichem2005@acs.org December 15-20,...

((BRIEFS)) ALLIANCES AND AGREEMENTS.
November 1, 2005... Gambro, DaVita Conclude Sale, Begin Alliance. DaVita (El Segundo, CA) has finalized the purchase of Gambro Healthcare U.S. (Lakewood, CO), spending $3.1 billion for approximately 520 hemodialysis clinics. Gambro will continue as the preferred...

INDUSTRY.
November 1, 2005... GE Center to Serve Middle East, Africa GE Water and Process Technologies (Trevose, PA) will establish a $5 million Regional Center of Excellence in the Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza) in Dubai. The 409,000 square foot facility will serve as the...

PROJECTS.
November 1, 2005... DMV Building UF Plant for New Whey Product. DMV International (Veghel, The Netherlands), the industrial ingredients division of leading European dairy company Campina, is investing $69 million into its whey processing and food ingredient...

FINANCIAL RESULTS.
November 1, 2005... Zenon to Report Third Quarter Loss Due to Production Delays. Zenon Environmental (Oakville, Canada) expects to report lower than expected financial results for the third quarter, and an operating loss for the quarter of between $4 million and...

PRODUCTS.
November 1, 2005... Meissner Launches Handheld Integrity Tester. Meissner Filtration Products, Inc. (Camarillo, CA) has introduced the Accuflux Pocket Pro filter integrity tester. The lightweight, handheld instrument tests the integrity of membrane filters using...

FUNDING.
November 1, 2005... SuperProtonic Gains New Investors. Hydro Technology Ventures (Oslo, Norway) has invested an undisclosed amount in SuperProtonic (Pasadena, CA), formerly Proton Power, a CalTech spinoff developing solid acid fuel cell membranes. Hydro believes...

PEOPLE.
November 1, 2005... Bioprocess VP Named Division President. Millipore Corp. (Billerica, MA) has named Jean-Paul Mangeolle as President of its Bioprocess Division. Mangeolle has served as Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations for the Bioprocess Division. In...

COMMENTARY Resistance to Change Still Plagues Industry.
November 1, 2005... While it appears that RO, NF, MF and UF now are widely accepted for producing potable water, and MBRs are gaining ground for municipal wastewater treatment, membrane technology still has barriers to overcome for industrial wastewater treatment,...

WHO'S WHO IN MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY.
November 1, 2005... Lisa Crossley is the co-founder and CEO of Nysa Membrane Technologies, a spinoff from McMaster University with a novel membrane technology platform for applications in large-scale bioprocessing, small-scale bioanalytics, blood processing, and...

CALL FOR PAPERS.
November 1, 2005... Membrane professionals interested in contributing to MSTN's 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...

INDUSTRY INSIGHT.
November 1, 2005... Pretreatment, Pretreatment, Pretreatment... By Bill Irvine, President, Engineering Fluid Solutions, LLC, 11190 West Center Ave., Lakewood, CO; Tel: 303/478-7201, Fax: 303/987/1547, email: info@esfilter.com Pretreatment rang out loud and...

HydraKleen Design.
November 1, 2005... Recognizing this need, engineers at EFS embarked on the HydraKleen design. The design basically addressed efficiencies in operations and maintenance with an eye toward sustainable growth inherent in reuse and reclamation practices. Starting...

Hydrakleen system in normal run mode.
November 1, 2005... The HydraKleen uses a patented wedge-wire screen design that automatically rinses the screen using the process water, so the likes of auxiliary spray bars, mechanical vibration and brushes are not required for removing solids from the screen....

How it Works.
November 1, 2005... The HydraKleen separator works in two basic modes: Normal Run Mode during most of the time, and Screen Rinse Mode for brief periods. Normal Run Mode: During normal run mode, the HydraKleen pump delivers a solid-containing process liquid to...

HydraKleen system in Rinse Mode.
November 1, 2005... The HydraKleen design effectively removes a wide range of particle sizes from coarse material to settleable fines-in removing a wide range of particle sizes, the HydraKleen unit performs simultaneously as a separator and filter. The unit is...