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7241388 |
Means to miniaturize diffusion filters for particulate removal
The present invention is directed to a filtration system including filter media that use diffusion as a method of particulate reduction that balances the contact time required for a desirable level...
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7229554 |
Purification process comprising microfiltration at elevated temperatures
Process for microfiltration at elevated temperature.
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7229556 |
Delivery system for a composition
Devices and methods for cutaneous delivery of a composition are provided, wherein the composition is passed through an ordered nanoporous membrane in fluid communication with a reservoir. The...
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7216529 |
Method for controlling the integrity of a nanofiltration or reverse osmosis module, or module system
The invention concerns a method for controlling a nanofiltration or reverse osmosis module system designed for treating a supply fluid or for detecting living micro-organism leaks, each module...
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7214319 |
Method of separating protein from animal milk
The present invention refers to a method of separating casein from animal milk, especially, after defatting the animal milk as the pretreatment, the processing of the defatted milk aforesaid...
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7207964 |
Apparatus and method for down-regulating immune system mediators in blood
A method and apparatus for preventing and treating septicemia in patient blood is provided. The extracorporeal system includes an antimicrobial device to inactivate at least 99% of bloodborne...
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7208091 |
Assembly for withdrawing and filtering partial volumes of process fluid
A method for withdrawing and filtering a partial volume of a particle-containing process fluid enclosed in a container, a combination of a container enclosing a process fluid and an assembly for...
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7195710 |
Systems and methods using multiple solvents for the removal of lipids from fluids
This invention is directed to systems and methods for removing lipids from a fluid or from lipid-containing organisms from a fluid, such as plasma. These systems combine a fluid with at least one...
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7186342 |
Method for filling and washing a filter for a dialysis machine
A dialysis machine is provided with a dialysate circuit, a blood circuit and a filter having a dialysate compartment connected to the dialysate circuit, a blood compartment connected to the blood...
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7186343 |
Cyclic aeration system for submerged membrane modules
A process for supplying bubbles to a membrane module and cleaning an aerator producing the bubbles includes, in repeated cycles, steps of producing bubbles from an aerator and reducing pressure in...
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7186344 |
Membrane based fluid treatment systems
A process for removing soluble and insoluble inorganic, organic, and microbiological contaminants from a fluid stream employing a pretreatment module, a post-treatment module, a recycle stream...
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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...
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7182867 |
Shear-enhanced systems and methods for removing waste materials and liquid from the blood
Systems and methods convey the blood through a gap defined between an inner surface that is located about an axis and an outer surface that is concentric with the inner surface. At least one of the...
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7182865 |
Device for separating whole blood under gravitational force
Method for separating whole blood into a leukocyte-depleted erythrocyte concentrate and thrombocyte-containing plasma, in which method whole blood is separated in a first step into an erythrocyte...
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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...
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7179379 |
Apparatus for separating particulates from a suspension, and uses thereof
The present invention includes an apparatus for separating particulates from a fluid in a suspension, comprising: a housing defining a frusto-conically shaped inner chamber with an inner wall, an...
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7179592 |
Size-exclusion-based extraction of affinity ligands and active compounds from natural samples
The invention encompasses an improved, rapid, size-exclusive method for screening for small molecular weight ligands that bind specifically to a protein target, using size-exclusion separation,...
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7169213 |
Multi-channel cross-flow porous device
A multi-channel modular device ( 10 ) processes between two fluid streams of different compositions. The device ( 10 ) includes a porous body ( 150 ) having a first plurality of feed-flow pathways...
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7169428 |
Dairy compositions and method of making
The invention relates to a method of separating components from milk, and the apparatus used therefor. The invention also relates to compositions prepared from the separated components. The present...
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7166225 |
Methods for filtering fluids
A fluid filtering device includes a plurality of filtering wells and an angling mechanism which adjusts the angle of the membranes within the filtering wells relative to a line of a centrifuge...
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7160463 |
Methods of minimizing the effect of integrity loss in hollow fibre membrane modules
A method and apparatus for reducing the effect of integrity loss in a hollow fiber membrane module, said module including a plurality of hollow fiber membranes ( 5 ), at least one end of the fiber...
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7160455 |
Hollow fiber membrane module
A hollow fiber membrane module comprising a module housing, a hollow fiber membrane bundle comprising a plurality of hollow fiber membranes, at least one end portion of the bundle being fixed on...
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7160464 |
Methods for removal, purification, and concentration of viruses and methods of therapy based thereupon
The invention is based on the discovery that certain membranes, which include side chains or molecular “brushes” having, for example, tertiary amino functional groups, can be used as highly...
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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...
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7153432 |
Method of purifying Fischer-Tropsch derived water
A process for the production of highly purified water 38 from Fischer-Tropsch reaction water 12 , includes at least the steps of a primary treatment stage comprising an equilibrium staged...
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7150831 |
Method of purifying fischer-tropsch derived water
A process for the production of purified water from Fischer-Tropsch reaction water wherein the purified water is an aqueous stream having a COD of between 20 and 500 mg/l, a pH of between 6.0 and...
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7147613 |
Measurement of fluid pressure in a blood treatment device
A first flow path is defined within a first panel that forms a part of an extracorporeal fluid circuit. A second flow path is defined within a second panel that also forms a part of the...
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7144510 |
Method and apparatus for treatment of a fluid stream
A method for treating a fluid by providing a raw fluid to a process tank. The raw fluid may be water having varying degrees of contamination or another type of fluid. The method further consists of...
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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...
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7135117 |
Well for processing a fluid
A well ( 50 ) comprising a side wall ( 10 ), a sealing ring ( 40 ), a rib arrangement ( 5 ), and a filter ( 20 ), for use in processing a fluid, e.g., by microtitration or microfiltration, is...
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7135008 |
Method and apparatus for ultrafiltration utilizing a peripheral access dual lumen venous cannula
Method and apparatus for the extracorporeal treatment of blood by utilizing a peripherally inserted dual lumen catheter assembly for the continuous removal and return of blood for renal replacement...
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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 (Q p ); first comparison means ( 65 )...
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7122121 |
Advanced submerged membrane modules, systems and processes
Advanced submerged membrane systems are provided. Said submerged membrane systems have multiple membrane modules comprising of strips of flat sheet membrane, bundles of self-support hollow fiber...
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7122151 |
Membrane apparatus with enhanced mass transfer, heat transfer and pumping capabilities via active mixing
A combination mass transfer and pump apparatus, which in a single step actively mixes a first mass and a second mass and simultaneously pumps one of the first mass and the second mass through the...
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7115206 |
Method for in-line preparation of liquid for an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus
A method for in-line preparation of liquid for an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus that makes provision for placing a filter in correspondence with each of two successive filtration...
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7115107 |
Blood circuit for a dialysis machine and corresponding dialysis machine
A blood circuit ( 1 ) for a dialysis machine is made form plastic material and is provided with a metallic plate ( 30 ), which is applied to an external face of the blood circuit ( 1 ) and is...
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7112281 |
Underdrain for filtration membrane
A device and method for removal of liquid from the downstream side of a membrane or a well, such as a well of a multiwell plate. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a wicking...
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7108790 |
Method and apparatus for generating a sterile infusion fluid
An apparatus and method are provided for generating sterile infusion fluid from non-sterile infusion fluid produced by a machine. In one embodiment, the sterile infusion fluid is produced by a...
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7104406 |
Micro-filter for filtering blood cells
A micro-filter for filtering blood cells has a plurality of filtering channel structures, each having a first through hole and a first concave portion connecting to each other, and a plurality of...
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7087173 |
Inverted cavity aerator for membrane module
An aerator for immersed filtering membranes has an aerator shell with openings for discharging bubbles from its upper surface and a shape capable of temporarily containing a volume of air in fluid...
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7088514 |
Particle size variable reactor
A particle size (or particle diameter) variable reactor comprises a granular substrate and a capturing unit fixed onto the surface of the granular substrate. The capturing unit comprises a...
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7081202 |
Composite semipermeable membrane, production method thereof, and water treatment method using the same
A composite semipermeable membrance of the present invention comprises a thin film and a porous support membrane supporting the thin film, wherein the thin film includes polyamide based resin...
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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...
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7077962 |
Method and apparatus for parallel desalting
Parallel desalting (PDS) includes a hybrid membrane softening (MS) system for de-mineralizing water for residential and commercial use. Parallel desalting produces “soft” water without the use...
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7074332 |
Multistage hemodiafiltration/hemofiltration method and apparatus
In a blood dialysis system including a source of substitution fluid ( 10 ) and a blood dialysis machine, a hemodiafiltration system having a first dialyzer ( 1 ) including a first blood compartment...
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7074333 |
Recovery of linear nucleic acids by salt dilution and/or reduced pressure prior to continuous pressure differential ultrafiltration
A method of recovery of DNA fragments using ultrafiltration. The method of the present invention relates to the separation and/or fractionation of double stranded linear nucleic acids using...
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7074366 |
Device and a method for application of liquid solutions on membranes
A device for application of multiple liquid samples on membrane by capillary action and creation of sample arrays.
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7070695 |
Ultrafiltration and microfiltration module and system
A method and apparatus of purifying feedwater to remove impurities including suspended solids therefrom, the method suitable for using in-line water pressure to permeate water through hollow fiber...
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7056458 |
Non-thrombogenic semipermeable membrane and method for making same
The invention concerns a non-thrombogenic semipermeable membrane comprising a support semipermeable membrane and an anticoagulant suitable for treating blood and plasma by extracorporeal...
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7052610 |
Immersed membrane filtration system and overflow process
Modules of ultrafiltration or microfiltration membranes are arranged in a tank open to the atmosphere to substantially cover the cross sectional area of the tank. A filtration cycle has permeation...
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