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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8157994 | Extraction with fractionation of oil and co-products from oleaginous material Systems and methods for extracting lipids of varying polarities from oleaginous material. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8152999 | Membrane cascade-based separation The present invention provides counter flow cascade separation systems useful to separate solute/solute pairs present in a solvent. The separation systems include a series of interconnected stages with each stage comprising a diafilter preferentially permeable for o... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8133389 | Method and apparatus for preparing platelet rich plasma and concentrates thereof The PRP separator-concentrator of this invention is suitable for office use or emergency use for trauma victims. The PRP separator comprises a motorized centrifugal separation assembly, and a concentrator assembly. The centrifugal separator assembly comprises a cent... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8025799 | Maple tree sap reverse osmosis device A maple sap reverse osmosis device has a support rack configured and sized to rest atop a tank. The support rack supporting a reverse osmosis device. The reverse osmosis device has a pump line and a dump line both located within the tub. The pump line being located ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7935252 | Methods of treating Alzheimer's Disease with an apheresis device The invention relates to an apheresis device for use in the treatment of Alzheimer patients. Said device comprises a solid support with which a flow of blood or plasma can be contacted. ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7520981 | Water desalination An in situ desalination apparatus comprising a reverse osmosis unit (15) having a reverse osmosis medium, the reverse osmosis unit in use to be located within a body of water under ambient bio-physico-chemical conditions often different from those at the surf... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7435342 | Dialysate regeneration system for portable human dialysis A dialysate regeneration chamber is provided. In one embodiment, the dialysate regeneration chamber may include a toxin trap configured to selectively trap toxins and repel select cations. ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7410574 | Magnetic particle filtration apparatus An apparatus for separating magnetic particles from a fluid, the apparatus comprising a tubular housing comprising an interior surface, an exterior surface, a first inlet port, a first outlet port, a second outlet port, and a channel; a tubular filter medium dispose... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7402240 | Method and system to flush an RO system A home RO filtration system includes a membrane module having an inlet connected to a feed line, the membrane module also having a concentrate outlet coupled to a concentrate line, and a permeate outlet coupled to a permeate line. The permeate line communicates with... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7396458 | Wastewater treatment equipment A wastewater treatment equipment of an embodiment of the present invention neutralizes a WTBT 12 by introducing the WTBT 12 containing fluorine components to a first treatment tank 11A and by introducing an NaOH solution from a second path P2... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7374677 | Two stage hemofiltration that generates replacement fluid The present invention relates to a system for two-stage blood dialysis of a patient. In one embodiment, the system comprises a first filtration device for receiving the blood from the patient and for producing a first filtrate and processed blood. The system further... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7371319 | Production of water for injection using reverse osmosis A method and system for providing Water for Injection using reverse osmosis. Water for Injection can be produced by reverse osmosis and the reverse osmosis membrane can be kept in a constantly self-sanitizing condition. One way of obtaining a constantly self-sanitiz... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7368057 | Method and system for removing residual water from excess washcoat by ultrafiltration A washcoat coating composition is disclosed that includes at least one water insoluble organic solvent and at least one polymer, such as an epoxy acrylic copolymer. A method of removing residual water from a mixture of residual water and washcoat using ultrafiltrati... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364653 | Filtration systems and methods A filtration system comprising a plurality of filters (14, 16, 18, 20). Each filter (14, 16, 18, 20) defines a respective filter flowpath extending adjacent a respective filtration medium (24) for tangential filtration by the filtration medium (... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7350821 | Method and system for purging a dispensed fluid within a fluid dispensing system including a filter-free connector apparatus A connector apparatus is provided which is configured to replace a separation module in a system for dispensing a fluid. When it is desired to purge the system of a dispensed fluid, the connector apparatus, having the same configuration of an inlet and an outlet as ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7338595 | Flow-through tank for water treatment A fluid treatment system includes at least one flow-through tank, a treatment device configured for treating at least one of an untreated fluid and a treated fluid and providing the treated fluid to the at least one flow-through tank and at least one sensing device ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7311833 | Zero excess sludge membrane bioreactor An inclined plate coupled membrane bioreactor for treating feed water having excessive level of nutrients in particular chemical oxygen demand and total nitrogen and suspended solids has an aerobic bioreactor for nitrification and aerobic biodegradation in which mem... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7309323 | Wearable continuous renal replacement therapy device A continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) device adapted to be worn on a portion of the body of a patient. The CRRT device is worn by the patient and operates on rechargeable batteries for more than 5 hours. Dialysate is used to remove impurities from the blood.... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308808 | Apparatus and method for article cleaning The present invention provides an article cleaning apparatus comprising an air management mechanism, a cleaning basket assembly, a fluid regeneration device, a working fluid device, a clean fluid device, and a controller. The working fluid device is coupled to the f... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7300575 | Portable filter system A filter system for receiving an aqueous-based fluid contaminated with particles and emulsified contaminant oil, removing the particles, and separating the emulsified contaminant oil from the aqueous-based fluid includes a filter media for receiving the aqueous-base... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7291269 | Apparatus and process for extracorporeal treatment of blood with selective extraction of solutes A device and method for an extracorporeal blood treatment is described. The device comprising at least one exchanger equipped with at least one first inlet for the blood to be treated, a first fluid outlet and a second fluid outlet, an input line for blood to be tre... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288201 | Methods for removing moisture from hydrogen halides A composition comprising a magnesium halide coated macroporous carbonaceous substrate is provided for effecting moisture removal from a hydrogen halide fluid. Moisture removal is effected by intimately contacting the hydrogen halide fluid with the magnesium halide c... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7285105 | Automatic dialyzer and dialyzing method An automatic dialyzer for purifying blood brought into contact with a dialysate via a semi-impermeable membrane. The dialyzer includes at least a blood circulating system and a dialysate supply/discharge system, wherein the blood line of the blood circulating system... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7285210 | Zero waste reverse osmosis water filtering A reverse osmosis water filtering system includes a reverse osmosis membrane having first output port for permeate water, second output port for concentrate water, and intake port for receiving filtered water, a filtering assembly providing filtered water to the mem... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7285209 | Method and apparatus for separating emulsified water from hydrocarbons The invention discloses an apparatus for filtration of water from hydrocarbons comprised of a fresh-feed inlet, a first dead end filter, that is hydrophobic, a second sweeping-flow filter, that is hydrophobic, a common housing containing both the first and second fi... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7270744 | Automated low-volume tangential flow filtration process development device An automated process development device providing flexibility and accuracy for the investigative development of tangential flow filtration (tff) processes and used for evaluating the process parameters of a laboratory scale tff process with an eye towards developing... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267774 | Fuel and by-products from fermentation still bottoms The disclosed invention is an improved method for treating ethanol distillation still bottoms by recovering, through solids separation and pressurized membrane filtration, potable water from still bottoms for human consumption by bottling or for reuse, and concentra... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7252981 | Method for the preparation of stable and reusable biosensing granules The present invention provides a process for the preparation of stable and reusable biosensing granules useful in the assessment of biodegradability of effluents. The biosensing granules are prepared by culturing active aerobic microbial consortia in synthetic mediu... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7247146 | Support element for an integrated blood treatment module, integrated blood treatment module and extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus equipped with said integrated module The invention relates to support element (4) comprising a main body (6) having a front wall (25) and a peripheral wall (32) projecting away from the front wall. The front wall and the peripheral wall define a housing compartment (33 | 07/24/2007 |
| 7232418 | Support element, an integrated module for extracorporeal blood treatment comprising the support element, an apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment equipped with the integrated module, and an assembly process for an integrated module for extracorporeal blood treatment An integrated module for extracorporeal blood treatment has a flat-shaped support element which exhibits on an internal face thereof a complex of fluid distribution lines and on an external face thereof a high-flow dialyzer. The support element has a base body which... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7217366 | Purification of ammonium metallate solutions A process for reducing the content of alkali metal impurities (e.g., potassium) in ammonium metallate solutions is described. The process involves subjecting a feed solution containing ammonium metallate and alkali metal impurities to membrane filtration. The membra... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7214312 | Fluid circuits, systems, and processes for extracorporeal blood processing A sterilized fluid management kit for use in renal replacement therapy isolates a replacement fluid container from touch contamination and provides for sterilization of replacement fluid by filtering using an installed filter that is hermetically connected to the re... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7198722 | Process for pre-treating and desalinating sea water Water containing dissolved salts, such as calcium sulfate, calcium chloride, magnesium sulfate, magnesium chloride, sodium carbonate, sodium chloride, sodium sulfate, calcium bicarbonate, and mixtures thereof, is treated to reduce the concentration of those salts. A... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7186331 | Monitoring unit for monitoring the condition of a semi-permeable membrane The invention concerns a monitoring unit [10] for monitoring the condition of a semi-permeable membrane [24] in a water purification system, and particularly the condition of spiral membrane in a reverse osmosis water purification system. The monitorin... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7182841 | Purification of solvents used for the purification of alkylene oxide This invention concerns a process for removing carbonyl-containing impurities from impure extractive distillation solvent such as a glycol, comprising: contacting the impure extractive distillation solvent with an acidic ion exchange resin. The purified extractive d... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7179376 | Method and system for removing residual water from excess washcoat by ultrafiltration A washcoat coating composition is disclosed that includes at least one water insoluble organic solvent and at least one polymer, such as an epoxy acrylic copolymer. A method of removing residual water from a mixture of residual water and washcoat using ultrafiltrati... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7172701 | Water treatment method using an inorganic powder reagent with high specific surface area including a step of recycling said reagent A method of treating water including mixing the water with an inorganic powder reagent for reducing the content of organic matter. The water, after being mixed with the inorganic powder reagent, is subjected to a membrane separation step that produces blow off produ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7141171 | Membrane cascade-based separation The present invention provides counter flow cascade separation systems useful to separate solute/solute pairs present in a solvent. The separation systems include a series of interconnected stages with each stage comprising a combination of a diafilter preferentiall... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7132052 | System for the purification and reuse of spent brine in a water softener System and method for purifying and recycling spent brine in a water softener are provided. The system may be made up of a cation exchange resin tank fluidly coupled for passing spent brine comprising monovalent and divalent ions. A fluid mixer valve is coupled to t... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131956 | Dialysis machine and method of controlling it A dialysis machine comprises: means for calculating (60) a filtration factor (FF) as a function of the ultrafiltration rate (UFR) and of a plasma flow rate (Qp); first comparison means (65) for comparing the filtration factor (FF) with a lim... | 11/07/2006 |
