Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from September 2000

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from September 2000

ULTRAFILTRATION: Yeast Source Affects Lactic Acid Bacteria.
September 1, 2000... Canadian researchers H. Gaudreau, C. P. Champagne, J. Conway, and R. Degr_ have investigated the effect of ultrafiltration on the ability of yeast extracts to promote lactic acid bacteria growth (Canadian Journal Of Microbiology [45, 891-897])....

Zenon Expands Anthem Capacity.
September 1, 2000... The expandability of Zenon Environmental's water and wastewater filtration technology is being used by a large developer, Del Webb, whose signature community, Anthem, is experiencing unprecedented growth. The contract to expand the initial...

RO AND NANOFILTRATION HERO Broadens Hydrometric Range.
September 1, 2000... Hydrometrics has designed a high-efficiency reverse-osmosis (HERO) system for treating industrial wastewater. HERO is a pretreatment sequence that allows reverse osmosis to be effectively applied to a broader range of industrial wastewaters and...

ED AND FUEL CELLS: DOE Supports Copolymer Development.
September 1, 2000... The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) estimates that oil imports could be reduced by 800,000 bpd if only 10% of domestic automobiles were powered by fuel cells. NASA has used fuel cells for decades in the U.S. space program. As gasoline and...

Ionics Turns Sewage into Cooling Tower Water.
September 1, 2000... Groundwater in the United Arab Emirates, as in many parts of the world, is scarce, and municipal water is supplied by seawater desalination, which the country subsidizes. Municipal primary- treated effluent is available, and the National Cement...

BIOMEDICAL AND BIOMEMBRANES UCSF Measures Brain Alcohol Levels.
September 1, 2000... The brain is a critical organ system through which alcohol's effects can lead to intoxication, tolerance, and dependence. Scientists have found a means to measure directly alcohol concentrations throughout the brain. The technology is called...

Rhode Island to Filter All Blood.
September 1, 2000... Rhode Island has become the first U.S. state to implement a universal leukoreduction (ULR) blood-filtration policy. Rhode Island Blood Center, using a variety of technologies, including membrane-base separations, is leukoreducing all of its...

MONITORING: Sensor Extends Cartridge Life.
September 1, 2000... The 5600-series, dissolved oxygen sensors, available from GLI Intl., uses three-electrode polarographic Ross Cell technology. The Ross measurement technique generates as much oxygen as it consumes, thereby operating at equilibrium. ...

Chemtrac Provides Continuous Surveillance.
September 1, 2000... Chemtrac Systems has developed a membrane integrity monitor (MIMS) that provides continuous, on-line surveillance of membrane filtration processes for individual modules or cassettes, versus the combined effluent. This allows the operator to...

INDUSTRY NEWS: FDA Accepts Osmonics Response Warning.
September 1, 2000... Osmonics, Inc. has received notice from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that efforts taken by the company to resolve quality reporting errors appear to be acceptable. The warning involved portable reverse-osmosis units manufactured by...

Life Technologies, Whatman Join Forces.
September 1, 2000... Life Technologies, Inc. and Whatman, plc plan to work together to commercialize and distribute products derived from Whatman's nucleic acid isolation, purification, and storage technologies. Products and technologies covered under the...

ITN Selected for $2.3 Million DOE Award.
September 1, 2000... ITN Energy Systems, Inc. (ITN), has been notified by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that it has been selected for a proposed $2.3 million DOE award for the development of a ceramic membrane to separate hydrogen from fossil fuel gas streams...

Dexter Shareholders OK Ahlstrom Paper Sale.
September 1, 2000... Dexter Corp. shareholders approved the company's previously announced sale of Dexter Nonwoven Materials to Ahlstrom Paper Group Oy for $275 million in cash. Seventy percent of the shares outstanding voted in favor of the sale. Of the shares...

Cytogen, Advanced Magnetics Terminate Merger.
September 1, 2000... Cytogen Corp. has dropped plans to acquire Advanced Magnetics, Inc. Instead, the companies agreed to marketing, license, and supply collaborations. Under the agreements, Cytogen will acquire certain product rights to Advanced Magnetics'...

PERVAPORATION: Tailor Design Makes Tougher Composites.
September 1, 2000... Scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) have been working to advance the ability to "tailor design" a class of tougher, task-specific Ceramic-supported polymer (CSP) membranes for remediation applications, recovery and...

INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Recovery of Valuable Chemicals from Process Streams.
September 1, 2000... The use of membranes to recover volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from gas streams has been acccepted by industry as a commercially viable technology. Since 1992, Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (MTR) has installed more than 60 VaporSep...

VaporSep Technology.
September 1, 2000... In the VaporSep process, an air (or nitrogen) stream containing organic vapor passes across the surface of a composite membrane that is much more permeable to organic vapors than to air. The membrane separates the gas into two streams: a...

Current Applications.
September 1, 2000... One of the first commercial installations was for the recovery of vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) at a poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) manufacturing plant. PVC polymerization reactors produce an off- gas stream that contains a significant amount of...

New Applications.
September 1, 2000... The VaporSep technology has promise for a number of applications. In the existing applications, hydrocarbons are separated from nitrogen or air; two areas are the separation of hydrocarbons from hydrogen, and hydrocarbons from methane. ...

In the News.
September 1, 2000... Agilent Technologies Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) has formed a Life Sciences Business Unit within its Chemical Analysis Group. The Life Sciences Unit, to be headed by Bill Buffington, will market Agilent's portfolio of existing products including HPLC,...

Personnel Updates.
September 1, 2000... Parker Hannifin Elects Three VPs. Parker Hannifin (Cleveland, OH) has elected three corporate vice presidents. Bob Bond, president of the Automation Group, oversees and leads the worldwide group in the development, manufacturing, and marketing...

Selected Abstracts.
September 1, 2000... How Nuclepore Wood Membranes Compare. Air permeability and bubble point measurements were made with two sizes of Nuclepore filter membrane, six other membranes of relatively nonhomogeneous structure, and three wood specimens. The measurements...

Personnel Updates.
September 1, 2000... Orchid BioSciences, Inc. has appointed Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D., molecular biotechnology and genomics pioneer, to its scientific advisory board. Hood, founder of the Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington), has been a significant...

Recent Patents.
September 1, 2000... Crystalline Composite from DuPont and Donaldson. E.I. duPont de Nemours and Co. (Wilmington, DE) and Donaldson & Co. (Minneapolis, MN) have been jointly awarded U.S. Patent 6,100,333 for a composite membrane made of highly fluorinated nonionic...

Calendar.
September 1, 2000... November 12-17, 2000, The AIChE Annual Meeting, Westin Bonaventure/Marriott, Los Angeles, CA. Contact: AIChE; Tel: 212/591-8100. December 4-5, 2000, The 18th Annual Membrane Technology/Separations Planning Conference, Business...