Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from October 2000

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from October 2000

INDUSTRY NEWS: HemaSure Loses Red Cross Contract.
October 1, 2000... The American Red Cross (ARC) has notified HemaSure that it is terminating its supply contract for HemaSure's r\LS Red Blood Cell Filtration System. In July 1999, the American Red Cross entered into a three-year supply contract to purchase...

Germany Mandates Blood Filtration.
October 1, 2000... Pall Corp. has been awarded a $6 million contract for blood filtration systems by the German Red Cross Transfusion Center, Lower Saxony, which began filtering its 700,000 (approximate) annual collections last month. Germany recently mandated...

Aussies Choose Ionics.
October 1, 2000... Ionics, Inc. has received an order for a comprehensive, integrated membrane system for the Luggage Point municipal sewage treatment plant in Brisbane, Australia. The plant, expected to come on-line in 2000, and which will reclaim 14,000 m3/day...

Helping Olympic Hosts Conserve Water.
October 1, 2000... U.S. Filter Australia/Vivendi Water supplied a wastewater reclamation plant to recycle sewage and rainwater runoff at the Sydney Olympic Games. Part of the purification process included the use of Filmtec reverse-osmosis (RO) technology from...

eFiltration Forms Electronic Hub.
October 1, 2000... eFiltration, Inc. has formed the first electronic hub for the $67 billion filtration industry. The company serves all segments of the filtration marketplace with the industry's widest range of industrial air, liquid, and HVAC filter products,...

Kinetico Signs 14 Wastewater Contracts.
October 1, 2000... Kinetico, Inc. (10845 Kinsman Rd., Newbury, OH 44065; Fax: 440/564-5025) has signed contracts for 14 wastewater treatment systems that will recycle several millions of gallons of water per year in the manufacturing of semiconductors, printed...

Ceramic Membrane Yields Hydrogen.
October 1, 2000... ITN Energy Systems (12401 W. 49th Ave., Wheat Ridge, CO 80033- 1927; Tel: 303/420-1141, Fax: 303/420-1551) has received a $2.3 million U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) award to develop ion- conducting ceramic membranes as part of the agency's...

PERVAPORATION: Selective Membranes Cut Esters' Synthesis Costs.
October 1, 2000... Argonne National Laboratory has developed a process based on selective membranes that permits low-cost synthesis of high-purity ethyl lactate and other lactate esters from carbohydrate feedstock. The process requires little energy input, is...

INORGANICS: ORNL Illuminates Groundwater Treatment.
October 1, 2000... In hopes of cleaning up groundwater and process streams contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE) and other volatile organic compounds, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) scientists tested the use of special inorganic membranes illuminated by...

MICROFILTRATION Pall Protects Sensors.
October 1, 2000... In the industrial arena, protecting sensors from contamination is a constant concern. Pall's Emflon PTFE membrane, Supor R polyethersulfone membrane, and Versapor R acrylic copolymer membrane have been designed to protect sensors exposed to...

New Logic Shakes Up Industrial Water.
October 1, 2000... New Logic Intl.'s VSEP (Vibratory Shear Enhanced Process) technology is a membrane filtration system for industrial water treatment. The single-step process is designed to replace complex pretreatment schemes, producing clear permeate up to...

GAS SEPARATION: Small Sampler Promises Big Results.
October 1, 2000... A chemical sampling device smaller than the tip of a fingernail promises big results for detecting and analyzing trace chemicals. The tool, incorporating a silicon nitride membrane and developed by the Department of Energys Sandia National...

ASSISTED EXTRACTION Argonne Evaluates MADS/MASX.
October 1, 2000... Argonne National Laboratory has evaluated a membrane-assisted solvent extraction (MASX) system coupled with a membrane-assisted distillation stripping system (MADS) for use in decontaminating groundwater. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)...

ED AND FUEL CELLS: Ionics Changes Its Polarity.
October 1, 2000... Electrodialysis (ED) transfers ionic species from the water being desalted through cation and anion-specific membranes to a concentrated wastewater stream. The driving force is direct current (DC) power. Ionics' electrodialysis reversal (EDR)...

TESTING: Website Offers Technical Guidance.
October 1, 2000... The Water Resources & Technology Department of California's Orange County Water District (OCWD) has launched a technical website designed to provide detailed descriptions of membrane analytical services offered by the District. The...

BetzDearborn Upgrades Argo.
October 1, 2000... BetzDearborn has released the latest version of Argo Analyzer software to guide reverse-osmosis users through comprehensive scaling projections, product selection, and dosage. The Argo Analyzer 2.000 computer program provides both...

Chemtrac Monitors Continuously.
October 1, 2000... The Chemtrac System's membrane integrity monitor (MIMS) provides continuous, on-line surveillance of membrane filtration processes for individual modules or cassettes, versus the combined effluent. This allows the operator to know where and...

BIOMEDICAL AND BIOMEMBRANES British Tout Bioreactor for Urban Recycling.
October 1, 2000... Researchers at the U.K.'s Cranfield University School of Water Sciences are recommending the submerged membrane bioreactor as the best choice for urban residents and industrial users wishing to recycle and reuse their water resources. In a...

REVERSE OSMOSIS: Unit Has Specially Designed Flowboard.
October 1, 2000... Texas researcher Maher I. Kelada has developed a counter-top reverse-osmosis water purification system that incorporates a specially designed mounting base, or flowboard. The mounting base contains a number of receptacles, each of which...

In the News.
October 1, 2000... Pall Completes Financing Package. Pall Corp. (East Hills, NY) reports it has closed on two loan transactions. The first transaction involved the private placement of $100 million of fixed rate, unsecured senior notes due in 2010. The second...

Personnel Updates.
October 1, 2000... Ionics Announces Executive VP Departure. Ionics, Inc. (Watertown, MA) says Robert J. Halliday, its executive vice president, chief operating officer, and chief financial officer, will be leaving the company shortly to pursue a business...

Selected Abstracts.
October 1, 2000... Adsorptive Properties Exploited. Carbon membranes are emerging as promising candidates for gas separation applications, primarily because they have demonstrated higher selectivities than those typically found with polymeric membranes. Antonio...

Recent Patents.
October 1, 2000... DuPont Attempts Complete CO2 Removal. DuPont (Wilmington, DE) researchers have described a process for separating carbon dioxide from an unsaturated fluorinated, compound carbon dioxide mixture using a semipermeable membrane to form at least...

Calendar.
October 1, 2000... November 12-17, 2000, AIChE Annual Meeting, Westin Bonaventure/Marriott, Los Angeles, CA. Contact: AIChE; Tel: 212/591-8100. December 3, 2000, Polymeric Membrane Materials and Membrane Formation Workshop, Marriott Hotel, Newton, MA....

INDUSTRY INSIGHT Light Gas Separation By Capillary Condensation.
October 1, 2000... By D. J. Devlin, T. Archuleta, and R. Barbero, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS E549, MST-7, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545; and M. E. Carrera, BP Amoco Research Center, PO Box 3011, Naperville, Illinois 60566-7011 Ethylene and propylene...

Membranes.
October 1, 2000... Thin film deposition by evaporation and sputter techniques can result in porous microstructures. The microstructures typically consist of columnar grains separated by porous regions. The development of porous structures is dependent on a number...

Membrane Fabrication.
October 1, 2000... The fine pore side of an alumina Anodisc filter with 0.2 mm diameter pores provides a suitable substrate for the deposition of carbon films with a 4 to 5 nm pore dimension. Films were deposited with a 10 cm diameter RF powered magnetron sputter...

Results.
October 1, 2000... Separation measurements were performed on two different systems at Los Alamos and BP Amoco. The essentials of the two systems are the same consisting of a membrane module in a constant temperature bath. Feed gases are swept over the membrane...

n-Butane and iso-Butane from Methane and Hydrogen.
October 1, 2000... Feed gases of compositions given in Table 1 and 2 were swept cross the superior surface of the membrane. The membrane was primed with toluene, and warm nitrogen gas was swept across the inferior surface. Chromatographic analysis of feed and...