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8409430 Purging assembly for a filter housing  
A purging assembly for a fuel filter housing. The purging assembly comprises a shaft having towards an upper end an upper sealing element, located around the perimeter of the shaft, and having...
8408401 Oil strainer for outboard motor unit  
An internal oil strainer housed in an outboard motor unit. A lower end of an oil tube is supported by a first seal member constructed of an O-ring fitted into an oil outlet of a strainer case. An...
8409357 Self-cleaning apparatus and method for thick slurry pressure control  
Self-cleaning apparatus and methods are disclosed for handling viscous fluids, such as thick solid-liquid slurries of lignocellulosic biomass and its components, under high pressure, using an array...
8404194 Blood separation media  
Disclosed is a separation media, comprising an upstream layer, comprising fibers, wherein the upstream layer has a mean flow pore size of 8 microns or less; and a downstream layer, comprising...
8404116 Safety insert for extra-corporeal circuits  
A transducer protector for use in an extra-corporeal circuit includes a first half-shell, a second half-shell, and a hydrophobic semi-permeable membrane enclosed between the half-shells. The first...
8403151 Nanofiber-containing membrane, a composite membrane, a process for producing them and their use  
A nanofiber-containing membrane has a specific surface area of 0.1 to 1000 m2/g, porosity of 10 to 99.5% and a pore size of 0.01 to 10 μm. This provides a nanofiber-containing membrane having ...
8404210 Iron composition based water filtration system for the removal of chemical species containing arsenic and other metal cations and anions  
An iron composition having a plurality of elemental components is disclosed. The major component is an iron component of at least about 68% to about 92% iron by weight. Other components by weight...
8405046 Method and apparatus for treating materials using electrodeless lamps  
The output wavelengths of an electrodeless lamp are controlled by passing a fluid over the surface of the lamp to control its temperature. The stabilized temperature prevents thermal runaway of the...
8404112 Filter media for use in pool filters  
A sand filter for use with swimming pools includes a tank that has a hollow interior space and a top diffuser for allowing spent pool water to enter the tank and for distributing the pool water...
8404110 Apparatus for diverting rainwater  
An apparatus for diverting rainwater includes a body having a top portion, a bottom portion, and a central portion. A diverter is disposed within the central portion, and has a lower portion and an...
8404118 Filter unit with filter bank  
The invention relates to a filter unit for purification of impure water, which could be seawater intended for ballast water, pool water, waste water or the like. The purification is performed by...
8404191 Biowaste sterilizer  
Biowaste sterilizers are described. In one implementation an exemplary system has waste transport vessels that can be intermittently heated and pressurized, for example, with steam, and are...
8404122 Oil recovery system and method  
A system and a method for collecting oil from the surface of a body of water, which includes a vessel for receiving oil being collected; an articulating arm, having a first end secured to the...
8404120 Method of continuously separating adsorbate  
An apparatus and method permit continuous separation of an adsorbate from a processing material containing solid particles, sticky substances and water-soluble proteins, alone or in combination,...
8404109 Sucrose inversion process  
A method of inverting sucrose, including (i) determining an initial solids concentration of an aqueous sucrose solution, an initial bed volume of a sucrose inversion resin system, a minimum target...
8404111 Fluidized membrane bioreactor  
A fluidized membrane bioreactor comprising a bioreactor including biochemically active organisms; fluidized particles which is a support media to be attached by the organisms; and membranes which...
8404346 Porous inorganic/organic hybrid monolith materials for chromatographic separations and process for their preparation  
Novel materials for chromatographic separations, processes for their preparation, and separation devices containing the chromatographic materials. In particular, the novel materials are porous...
8404114 Drinking water filter  
A filter cartridge includes, from top to bottom, a main filter comprising grains including ceramic soil and a mixture including tourmaline powder, mica powder, mineral powder, germanite powder,...
8404181 Corrosion inhibition  
The present invention relates to a method of preventing or alleviating the problems associated with corrosion and to novel formulations for use in such a method.
8403150 End-cap assembly with pump hose for a filter and filter comprising such an end-cap assembly  
An end-cap assembly for closing one end of a housing of a filter comprises an end-cap having an end wall; an inlet port extending through the end wall for connection to a first end of a pump hose...
8403236 Nozzle for use with a tote  
A nozzle includes a nozzle connector and nozzle filter engaged together. The nozzle connector is engaged with a tote connector of a tote which contains a paint component. A hose connector can be...
8404123 Fabrication of enclosed nanochannels using silica nanoparticles  
In accordance with the invention, there is a method of forming a nanochannel including depositing a photosensitive film stack over a substrate and forming a pattern on the film stack using...
8403152 Fail safe mechanism  
In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides fail-safe mechanisms for final filters. The fail-safe mechanisms of the present disclosure include a prefilter that is essentially transparent or...
8402672 Method of controlling a spray dryer apparatus by regulating an inlet air flow rate, and a spray dryer apparatus  
A method of controlling a spray dryer apparatus having a spray dryer chamber (1), an air inlet (2), an inlet air control system (11) including a fan (13) and an air heater (14), a feed inlet (3),...
8404121 Method for separating suspended solids from a waste fluid  
The disclosure relates to a separation process. An aerated inlet mixture of fluid and solids is fed to a flotation separation vessel and is separated into an upper float layer and a lower clarified...
8404115 Sealed filter element  
A filter element has filter media supported by a filter frame having differential channel depth receiving initially flowable sealing material. The filter frame has a widened mouth for receiving and...
8404117 System for controlling water in an aquatic facility  
A system for controlling water within an aquatic facility includes a water chemistry controller, a variable rate water pump adapted to move water in the facility, and a variable rate motor driver...
8404119 Method of membrane separation and membrane separation apparatus  
A method of membrane separation and membrane separation apparatus, with which not only a supply liquid can be evaluated but also the problems, such as scale, occurring on reverse osmosis membrane...
8404113 Transportable disaster-relief systems  
A transportable disaster-relief generating system is a power generated, multi-functional, and compact relief unit with means for providing area lighting via a power generator, purifying and storing...
8404991 Wire-cut electric discharge machine having function for automatic switching between fixed temperature control and differential temperature control  
A wire-cut electric discharge machine has a cooling device for cooling the machining fluid. A controller for controlling the cooling operation of the cooling device controls the machining fluid...
8403153 Adsorbent filter media for removal of biological contaminants in process liquids  
Adsorbent filter media particularly suited for removal of biological contaminants in process liquids. A porous fixed bed of adsorbent material is formed, using only a granular adsorbent and a...
8404799 Methods and systems for generating nanoparticles  
In one aspect, the present invention provides a process for forming polymeric nanoparticles, which comprises using a static mixer to create a mixed flowing stream of an anti-solvent, e.g., by...
8397553 Liquid chromatography detector and flow controller therefor  
A flow controller for use with a liquid chromatography detector. The flow controller includes a flow channel comprising an inlet portion, a control channel portion in communication with the inlet...
8398856 Self-sustained microbial detoxification of soluble sulfate from environmental effluent  
Systems and methods for the bioremediation of soluble sulfates from an environmental effluent, include a first chamber including lactic acid bacteria immobilized on a first matrix and a second...
8399229 Mobile magnetic traps and platforms for micro/nano particle manipulation  
Magnetic array platforms such as nano or micro-wire networks that produce trapping, manipulation, and transport of micro- or nano-scale particles such as non-biological entities such as magnetic...
8398857 Extraction of solute from solute-bearing material  
This invention is directed to a process for separating a solute from a solute-bearing material. A substantial amount of solute is extracted from the solute-bearing material by contacting particles...
8398860 Method of purifying a surfactant by ultrafiltration  
A method of purifying a surfactant for use in a pharmaceutical formulation, which comprises mixing the surfactant with a solvent and bringing said mixture into contact with a semi-permeable...
8398734 Cyclonic separator with a volute outlet duct  
The invention relates to a cyclonic separator comprising a throat portion (4) arranged between a converging fluid inlet section and a diverging fluid outlet section, to generate a swirling fluid...
8397920 Pleated filter element with tapering bend lines  
A pleated filter element extends axially between an upstream inlet and a downstream outlet along a plurality of axially extending bend lines forming axial flow channels. The bend lines taper in a...
8398852 Drainless reverse osmosis water purification system  
A drainless reverse osmosis (RO) water purification system provides relatively pure water for on-demand dispensing, while recycling brine to a domestic hot water system. The drainless purification...
8397921 Scum removing apparatus  
A spraying means is arranged on the scum-flowing wall surface side of wall surfaces forming a scum inlet of a scum discharging mechanism. The spraying means sprays pressured water upward along the...
8398859 Haemodialfiltration method and apparatus  
Device for haemodiafiltration, which comprises a first circuit for a dialysis solution and a second circuit for blood, so that the toxic substances from the blood flow pass into the dialysis liquid...
8398853 Filter assembly, valve assembly, and water purifying system having the same  
A water purifying system having a bypass path supplies raw water to an outlet when a filter assembly is separated from a valve assembly. The water purifying system includes a valve assembly having...
8398854 Filter system  
The present invention relates to a filter system (1) for removing impurities from a fluid, having a filter housing (2) enclosing a housing interior (3), and having at least one cylindrical filter...
8398862 Geothermal recovery method and system  
A method for extracting energy from hydrocarbons located in a geologic reservoir is presented, including the steps of: oxidizing the hydrocarbons; extracting heat generated from oxidizing the...
8398850 Water treatment feeder device and a water treatment feeder system  
A package of water treatment pellets includes a first container and a second container. The first container is fabricated from a water-dissolvable sheet material and the first container is filled...
8398855 BioCAST process  
A waste treatment process comprised of an ammonification system to convert soluble organic nitrogen into ammonia nitrogen, followed by a physico-chemical process to remove a substantial amount of...
8398858 Device for transferring mass and/or exchanging energy  
A device is provided for transferring mass and/or exchanging energy between two media, particularly between blood and a gas/gas mixture. The device includes a chamber (2), through which the first...
8398861 Separation method  
A separation method for extracting a target 1 from a separation subject (101) in which the target (1) to be extracted and a non-target (2) are mixed. The method includes the steps of distinguishing...
8398864 Screened decanter assembly for a settling tank  
A driven decanter assembly for a wastewater primary treatment system, comprising a longitudinal decanter disposable in the wastewater and having a longitudinal trough and a horizontal entrance...