Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from September 2002

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from September 2002

GAS SEPARATION: IdaTech Etches to Improve Flux.
September 1, 2002... IdaTech inventors have prepared hydrogen-permeable metal membranes with increased hydrogen flux compared with conventional metal membranes by selectively etching material from the membrane's surface. The membrane enables greater hydrogen...

PERVAPORATION: Agarose Preferentially Permeates Water.
September 1, 2002... Scientists at Kyoto Institute of Technology have fabricated membranes from agarose, one of Earth's most abundant renewable resources, which has the potential to permeate water preferentially from aqueous organic mixtures. The agarose membranes...

Hollow Fibers Remove CO2 from Liquid Ethane.
September 1, 2002... A 2,000-barrel-per-day NATCO-Cynara pilot plant fitted with a full-size membrane element has been successfully operating for more than a year at the BP Empress ethane and NGL extraction plant removing CO2 from liquid ethane. The unit is the...

REVERSE OSMOSIS: Nuclear Power May Cut Water Cost.
September 1, 2002... CANDESAL Technologies is testing an improved desalination method that couples a reverse osmosis system to a nuclear power plant, or alternatively to traditional thermal power plants, using waste heat to preheat the seawater feed, a technique...

ULTRAFILTRATION: MiniWizard Offers Maxi Savings.
September 1, 2002... Osmonics has added the automated, point-of-use MiniWizard fluid recycling system to its line of specialty separations equipment. The MiniWizard incorporates Osmonics' UltraFilic membranes to filter and collect oil emulsions, particulates,...

ION EXCHANGE: Sulfuric Acid Recycled with Less Energy.
September 1, 2002... Exergy Technology Corp. has commercialized an on-line diffusion dialysis process using ion exchange membranes that recovers and regenerates spent acids from metal plating and anodizing without additional chemicals. Consumption of fresh acid is...

INDUSTRY NEWS: 20/20 Receives State Grants.
September 1, 2002... 20/20 GeneSystems, Inc. has received awards totaling $250,000 from three state agencies promoting the biotechnology industry in Maryland. The company will use the funds for the further development of its platform technology, Protein Function...

Wastewater Recycled for Drinking.
September 1, 2002... As part of Singapore's August 9th National Day celebration, the 37th birthday of the tiny Asian state, NEWater, a bottled, recycled "toilet to tap" water made by reverse osmosis membranes, debuted in the water-stressed nation. Singapore's...

Hydranautics Tapped for Water Project.
September 1, 2002... Hydranautics will deliver a 3.75 mgd ultrafiltration system for municipal water treatment to the city of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, in mid-2003. Hydranautics' HYDRAcap capillary UF membranes will be used, along with powdered activated carbon for...

Maryville, MO, Plant On-Line, Beating Drought.
September 1, 2002... According to the Maryville Daily Forum, Missouri's second membrane system for potable water production is in full operation, producing high-quality water despite a regional dry spell. The Maryville Water Treatment Plant, a $4.9 million...

Leased Equipment Eases Water Needs.
September 1, 2002... Using a leased, temporary membrane system from Pall Corp., the City of Roanoke, Virginia, has partially reopened its Crystal Spring Reservoir, helping the city through its current water crisis. The city's second-largest water source was closed...

MemTriq Meeting Discharge Limits.
September 1, 2002... Triqua's MemTriq membrane bioreactors are seeing increasing marine usage for treating black-, gray-, and bilge water on board ships and at offshore installations. The compact crossflow systems are less space consuming and offer better...

Briefly Noted:.
September 1, 2002... * Hydranautics (Oceanside, CA) will supply its LFC3 RO membranes to Votorantim Cellulose e Papel (VCP), one of the largest pulp and paper mills in Brazil. The South American plant is undergoing a $550 million expansion that will increase their...

CALENDAR.
September 1, 2002... October 10-11, 2002. ICEST International Conference on Emerging Solid/Liquid Separation Technologies, Compi_gne, France. Contact: Secretariat ICEST, ILC/pole Technologique, Centre de tranfsert-66, Avenue de Landshut, 60200 Compi_gne, France;...

INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Enhanced Productivity in Hydrocarbon Processing.
September 1, 2002... By Susanne Olsen, Bhavana Tripathi, Helen Mill and Edward Gobina, Centre for Process Integration and Membrane Technology, School of Engineering Research Commercialization Unit, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen AB10 1FR, UK ...

Market Opportunities.
September 1, 2002... Natural Gas Processing. Low quality natural gas upgrading can impact the liquid fuel market by increasing the use of natural gas where liquid fuels are currently used, such as in transport. Natural gas for industrial and power plant needs will...

Hybrid Membrane Technology.
September 1, 2002... Tailored Pore Size Hybrid Membrane. In this study, the repeated dip-coating technique has been used to apply a thin continuous gas-separating layer on the outside surface of a coarse ceramic support tube (pore size ~ 0.4(m, o.d.= 1mm; i.d.=...