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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...
7229554 Purification process comprising microfiltration at elevated temperatures  
Process for microfiltration at elevated temperature.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 )...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...