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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8062523 | Filter element and methods of manufacturing and using same A coreless and spirally wound non-woven filter element is provided. The filter element includes at least one band of base media having a selected porosity and an interlay having a different porosity within at least one band of base media. The presence of the interla... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8021550 | Central core element for a separator assembly The present invention provides a central core element for separator assemblies useful in the purification of fluids, for example separator assemblies useful for the desalination of seawater. The central core element provided by the present invention comprises at lea... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7875177 | Membrane leaf packet with reinforced fold The present invention is directed toward membrane leaf packets, spiral wound modules and methods for making and using the same. The subject leaf packet comprises a membrane sheet folded upon itself and reinforced with sealant and tape along at least a portion of the... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7867394 | Membrane element sealing material holding member and membrane element A membrane element sealing material holding member comprising a central opening for insertion of a center tube of spiral membrane element, peripheral orifice for flowing of a raw liquid into a membrane end portion of membrane element and outer circumferential part f... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7416666 | Mobile desalination plants and systems, and methods for producing desalinated water Systems, methods, and apparatus for desalinating water are provided. A vessel includes a water intake system, a reverse osmosis system, a concentrate discharge system, a permeate transfer system, a power source, and a control system. The concentrate discharge system... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7410581 | Branched flow filtration and system A cross flow filtration apparatus for nanofiltration or reverse osmosis has pressure vessels with a plurality of filter cartridges in each vessel. A feed port is provided at an intermediate position on the side of the vessel, and two permeate flows or branches exit ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7387731 | Filtration element and method of constructing a filtration assembly A coupler for a spiral membrane filtration element having a spiral membrane enclosed within a rigid outerwrap includes a center support, a plurality of spokes extending outwardly from the center support, a circular rim coupled with the spokes, with the face of the r... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7387728 | Animal powered mechanical device for water desalination This invention provides animal powered mechanical device for water desalination. It has unique features of using animal power as prime mover to effect brackish water desalination. Animal energy in form of high-torque low-speed can be converted into low-torque high-s... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7341663 | Spiral-wound liquid membrane module for separation of fluids and gases The present invention is a filtering and chemical separation device that performs the operations of solvent extraction and pervaporation in a single piece of equipment, configured as a spiral-wound membrane module, and provides for the replenishment of the solvent i... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7338601 | Membrane separation assemblies Assemblies for use in separation of a fluid feed. Assemblies typically include an elongated housing having a fluid feed stream inlet, a residual stream outlet and a permeate stream outlet. The housing contains at least one membrane separation element to form a membr... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7335301 | Fold protection for spiral filtration modules utilizing UV cured adhesive and method of providing same The present invention encompasses a leaf packet useful in forming a spiral filtration module, wherein the fold area of the leaf packet is reinforced with a UV cured adhesive. The invention further encompasses a spiral filtration module wherein the fold line, side se... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7311831 | Filtration membrane and method of making same A filtration membrane and method of making the same wherein the filtration membrane comprises obstructions and/or spacers. ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311830 | Filtration element and method of constructing a filtration assembly A coupler for a spiral membrane filtration element having a spiral membrane enclosed within a rigid outerwrap includes a center support, a plurality of spokes extending outwardly from the center support, a circular rim coupled with the spokes, with the face of the r... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7303674 | Forward osmosis pressurized device and process for generating potable water There is disclosed a process and device for Forward Osmosis (FO) Pressurized Device (FOPD) in general and one hydraulically coupled to a reverse osmosis (RO device for a FOPRO (Forward Osmosis Pressurized Reverse Osmosis). Specifically, there is disclosed a passive ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7303675 | Blister protection for spiral wound elements A method for preventing osmotic blistering in spirally-wound elements of semipermeable membrane sheet material (14) by applying an effective coating of a sealant (41, 43, 45) to the upstream surface of such membrane material in regions where such poten... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7297268 | Dual head pump driven filtration system Improvements in product water throughput from a reverse osmosis (RO) membrane achieved by thinner feed spacers in the RO element (22), enhanced recovery (ratio of permeate to feed), pressure recovery of the retentate fluid pressure opposing the feed water pre... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7244357 | Pumps for filtration systems Improvements in product water throughput from a reverse osmosis (RO) membrane filter achieved by thinner feed spacers in the RO element, enhanced recovery (ratio of permeate to feed), pressure recovery of the retentate fluid pressure opposing the feed water pressure... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7208088 | Spiral wound filtration membrane cartridge with chevron seal A spiral wound filtration cartridge construction is provided which includes a cartridge positioned within a solid outer cylinder which, in turn is positioned within a solid outer cylinder which, in turn is positioned within a solid housing. Fluid flows within the sp... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7182866 | Apparatus and method for separating impurities from a stream A filtration apparatus and method for filtering a stream. The apparatus comprises a rotor that contains an inlet for the stream and an array of cavities operatively arranged to receive the stream from the impeller. The rotor member further includes membranes, operat... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7156997 | Package assembly for piperazine-based membranes A package assembly comprising a sealed water-impermeable bag enclosing: a spiral wound filtration element comprising a piperazine-based membrane, and an aqueous solution comprises a substantially non-oxidizable buffer having capacity to sequester at least 0.0025 mol... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7128150 | Acid gas disposal method This invention is method of recovering gas from a gas-bearing subterranean formation in which gas is produced from an upper portion of the formation and a waste gas is injected into a lower portion of the formation to dispose of the waste gas. The waste gas is injec... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7105089 | Liquid—liquid extraction system and method A liquid-liquid extraction system including an outer chamber and an inner chamber. The outer chamber is adapted to contain one of a feed solution and a liquid extractant and defines a containment region. The inner chamber is adapted to contain the other of the feed ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7087167 | Sanitary filtration plant with helical filter elements A sanitary filtration plant including an oblong, tubular pressure vessel having one or more helical filter elements. Each helical filter element has a spiral-wound filter member and a central tube and, at an outlet end, a supporting structure formed as a wheel with ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7081205 | Mobile desalination plants and systems, and methods for producing desalinated water Systems, methods, and apparatus for desalinating water are provided. A vessel includes a water intake system, a reverse osmosis system, a concentrate discharge system, a permeate transfer system, a power source, and a control system. The concentrate discharge system... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7063789 | Filtration element and method of constructing a filtration assembly A coupler for a spiral membrane filtration element having a spiral membrane enclosed within a rigid outerwrap includes a center support, a plurality of spokes extending outwardly from the center support, a circular rim coupled with the spokes, with the face of the r... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7051540 | Methods for fluid separations, and devices capable of separating fluids Wick-Containing apparatus capable of separating fluids and methods of separating fluids using wicks are disclosed. ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7018539 | Treatment of shipboard-generated oily wastewaters A process and apparatus for treating oily wastewater, such as bilge water or ballast water, generated on a ship. The process uses a combination of a centrifugal separation step and a membrane separation step, such as an ultrafiltration step. The membrane separation ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6989097 | Feed spacers for filtration membrane modules The invention disclosed relates to feed spacers used in various filtration membrane modules, such as in spiral wound membranes, used in cross-flow filtration. Such spacers have an influence in promoting the mixing between the bulk of the fluid and the fluid element ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6984321 | Apparatus for filtering and separating flow media In an apparatus for filtering and separating a flow medium by way of membranes disposed in a pressurized housing, which has an inlet for supplying the flow medium to the housing and outlets for discharging the retentate and the permeate from the housing, the membran... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6977041 | Apparatus for manufacturing deionized water and using method thereof An apparatus and method for manufacturing deionized water is provided. Water is supplied to a first conduit. A plurality of reverse osmotic pressure vessels are connected to the first conduit. A filtering experimental vessel is connected to the first conduit, the fi... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6911148 | Adsorptive membrane device for treating particle-laden liquid feeds There is disclosed a device for the simultaneous separation of particles and target substances from liquid feeds by adsorption membranes having particle-passing apertures therein. ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6881336 | Spiral wound element with improved feed space The present invention is an improved feed spacer, spiral wound element incorporating said feed spacer, filtration system and a method for making and using the same. In one embodiment the present invention includes an improved spiral wound element having: a central c... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6863813 | Membrane module A membrane module for a device used to separate substance mixtures in a cross current method includes a number of tubular membranes which encircle, at least in sections, a common axis in an essentially helical manner and which are provided for forming an essentially... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6849184 | Forward osmosis pressurized device and process for generating potable water There is disclosed a process and device for Forward Osmosis (FO) Pressurized Device (FOPD) in general and one hydraulically coupled to a reverse osmosis (RO device for a FOPRO (Forward Osmosis Pressurized Reverse Osmosis). Specifically, there is disclosed a passive ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6632356 | Separation membrane end cap A separation end cap adapted for connecting adjacent separation elements is provided. The end cap may be located at the distal ends of a separation element and is adapted for connection with a permeate tube located within the separation element. In one em... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6576136 | Method and apparatus for removing floating substances and salts from a liquid by means of a membrane filtration A membrane filtration for removing floating substances and salts from a liquid, uses vertically positioned capillary or tube membranes which are suitable for performing nano or hyper-filtration. Repeatedly and consecutively the following steps are perform... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6558544 | Pressure vessels for holding cylindrical semipermeable membrane cartridges A pressure vessel designed to hold a plurality of cylindrical cartridges in the form of cross-flow semipermeable membrane filtration elements having central permeate tubes that are interconnected to form a composite permeate passageway that extends axiall... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6544423 | Membrane module for substance-specific fluid treatment An apparatus and process for substance-specific treatment of fluids using groups of first and second treatment elements, adjacently positioned in a housing and made from membranes, the treatment elements having cavities open on one side, whereby the cavit... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6514412 | Microstructured separation device An active fluid separation device for removing a constituent of a fluid mixture. The separation device formed from a first polymeric structured layer having a plurality of flow channels defined in one surface, and a selectively permeable fluid separation ... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6508943 | Filtering device and a filtering method The present invention refers to a filtering device comprising at least one filtering membrane, at least one counter surface opposite to the filtering membrane, and at least one gap-shaped liquid space formed between the filtering membrane and the counter ... | 01/21/2003 |
