Membrane & Separation Technology News articles from September 2004

Membrane & Separation Technology News archives from September 2004

REVERSE OSMOSIS: FilmTec Re-Engineers Product Portfolio.
September 1, 2004... Dow Chemicals FilmTec Corp. has re-engineered its portfolio of brackish water RO elements to meet the precise performance requirements needed in municipal and industrial water purification applications. The companys four new brackish water...

MICROFILTRATION: Prep Kits Isolate Drug Targets.
September 1, 2004... Pall Corp. has launched three new sample preparation/protein purification kits, the first in an extended product line of Enchant Life Sciences Kits. Enchant kits are designed to meet demand from proteomics researchers seeking complete,...

Recovering Beer from Spent Yeast.
September 1, 2004... Pall Corp.s Keraflux crossflow ceramic beer recovery system offers large and small breweries significant cost savings by recovering up to 60% of beer that is otherwise disposed of along with spent yeast. Keraflux allows brewers to save money by...

ULTRAFILTRATION: Tubular Elements Resist Abrasion.
September 1, 2004... Rhodia Orelis has introduced a line of tubular multi-channel ceramic membrane elements with a high resistance to abrasion. Manufactured with FDA-approved materials in cut-off sizes between nanofiltration and microfiltration, the Kerasep Diamond...

Water Filter Operates without Electricity.
September 1, 2004... Scientists at the Desalination Division of Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) in Mumbai, India, have devised an economical UF membrane device for on-line, electricity-free purification of domestic water. UF membranes can physically remove...

System Removes Oil from Parts Washing.
September 1, 2004... Separation Dynamics, Inc. has introduced a new UF system, based on the companys hydrophilic regenerated curprammonium cellulose hollow fiber membranes. The Extran Model E removes free oil, emulsified oil, and particles from parts washing water...

High Flux, Low Shear Process Saves Cells.
September 1, 2004... Inventors at Oxford University have developed a pair of technologies that improve the filtration of valuable bioprocess products on an industrial scale. Both methods, which improve upon existing processes using ceramic block or tubular membrane...

BIOMEDICAL, BIOMEMBRANE: Glucose Monitor Faster, More Precise.
September 1, 2004... Pelikan Technologies is developing a one step, fully integrated blood glucose sampling and measuring device for diabetics that incorporates an emulsion membrane-based fluorescence-optical biosensor. The as-yet-unnamed device will combine the...

Sepet Successful in Preclinical Studies.
September 1, 2004... Arbios Systems Inc. reports that its single-use Sepet (selective plasma filtration therapy) hollow-fiber cartridge has successfully completed preclinical trials treating animals with acute liver failure. Arbios is developing Sepet as a blood...

GAS SEPARATION: Naturalhy to Separate Gas at Point of Use.
September 1, 2004... Gasunie Research in Groningen, The Netherlands, has been chosen to coordinate the Naturalhy project, a five-year effort that will study the possibility of using the existing European natural gas pipeline system to simultaneously distribute...

"Outside-In" Purifier Cheaper, Cleaner.
September 1, 2004... Power & Energy, Inc. (P&E) has received a second order for its modular PE9000 series palladium/silver membrane-based hydrogen purification system. The 1,300-liter per minute system will be shipped to a new customer in Japan and installed in the...

Polymer Labs Selects Generator for ELSD.
September 1, 2004... Polymer Laboratories has selected Parker Balstons N2-4000 nitrogen generator for delivering 99% pure gas to its PL-ELS 2100 evaporative light scattering detector (ELSD). The N2-4000, which requires no electricity and has no moving parts,...

PERVAPORATION: Composites Reduce Benzene in Fuels.
September 1, 2004... Berlin-based membrane maker PolyAn GmbH, in collaboration with aromatics manufacturer Aral Aromatics, has completed successful testing of a novel pervaporation plant that separates aromatics from aliphatics on an industrial scale. The German...

ELECTROCHEMICAL: Detecting Fuel Cell's Water Management.
September 1, 2004... MTI MicroFuel Cells, Inc. has debuted prototypes of handheld electronic devices incorporating the firms Mobion direct methanol (MeOH) fuel cell (DMFC) technology, which uses membrane diffusion instead of a micropump system to transfer water...

Metal Fibers for Fuel Cells.
September 1, 2004... UK-Based metal fiber products manufacturer Fibertech has introduced a range of products suited to applications in fuel cell technology. Among the new products are fuel cell membranes made from amorphous, semi-amorphous and fine-crystalline high...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Communities Turn to Zenon Filtration.
September 1, 2004... Zenon has received $30 million worth of orders for its membrane technology from two Pennsylvania communities and an Ontario city seeking to provide a margin of safety against microbial outbreaks from drinking water. In the U.S., new, more...

Vivascience, PerkinElmer Screen For Biomarkers.
September 1, 2004... Sartorius AGs Vivascience subsidiary and PerkinElmer Inc. have entered into a collaborative agreement to develop fractionation kits for proteomics-based biomarker analysis. Under the terms of the agreement, Vivasciences membrane adsorber...

Millipore Plant To Serve Biotech Market.
September 1, 2004... Millipore Corp. has officially opened its new $29 million state- of-the-art membrane casting plant in Jaffrey, NH. Adjacent to the companys current device plant, the 44,000-square-foot building will enable Millipore to increase production of...

Tampa Bay Repairs Could Cost More.
September 1, 2004... Repairing Tampa Bay Waters troubled RO desalination plant is expected to cost millions of dollars more than the $14 million fix contractors predicted initially. American Water Services/Pridesa estimates the cost at nearly $29 million, Veolia...

Briefly Noted:.
September 1, 2004... * Effective July 31, Siemens (Erlangen, Germany) completed its acquisition of USFilter Corp. from French parent company, Veolia Environnement. The $993 million acquisition positions Siemens as the North American market leader in the water and...

CALENDAR.
September 1, 2004... September 28-October 1, Euromembrane 2004, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany. Contact: Gerlinde Loebkens, TuTech Technologie, Harburger Schlossstrasse 6-12, 21079 Hamburg, Germany; Tel: +49 40 766180-12, Fax: +49 40...

INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Advanced Lightweight Chemical/Biological Agent Protective Clothing Systems-Strengths and Limitations.
September 1, 2004... By Quoc Q. Truong, Eugene Wilusz, U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command, Natick Soldier Center, Natick, MA 01760 Selectively permeable membranes are widely used throughout the chemical industry for carrying out gas separations...

Types of Materials.
September 1, 2004... Permeable materials usually consist of a woven shell fabric, a layer of sorptive material such as an activated carbon impregnated foam or a nonwoven felt, and a liner fabric. Since the woven shell fabric is not only permeable to air, liquids...

Material Concepts.
September 1, 2004... Selectively permeable materials represent a new concept in CB protective clothing. They are nonporous solution-diffusion membranes, which obey Ficks law of permeation, where gas dissolves into the membrane, diffuses across it, and desorbs on...

Results and Discussion.
September 1, 2004... Numerous candidate membranes were obtained from industry or developed with industrial partners. Membranes were characterized for their physical properties using standard methods. Chemical barrier properties and moisture vapor transmission...

COMMENTARY: High Temperature Polymers on the Rise.
September 1, 2004... Because of their excellent chemical resistance, long life and high conductivity, highly fluorinated ion exchange membranes, such as those made from DuPonts Nafion polymer, have been used traditionally in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel...