Membrane Separation

Viewpoints Archive


	2006
Dec/Jan -		2006: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2007
November -		Single-Use Systems
October -		Membrane Separation's Role in Nuclear Power
September -		Advances in Membrane-Manufacturing Technology
August -		Water-Technology Mapping
July -		Membrane Biopharmaceutical Processing: Problems and Solutions
June -		Membrane Distillation New Technology Area: Connected Homes
May -		Electrospun Membranes
April -		Micro-Power Membranes
March -		The Impact of Nanotechnology on Membrane Materials
February -		Smart Membranes with Nanotechnology

	2005	Download all 2005 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2005: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2006
November -		Solvent-Compatible Membranes
October -		Membrane Fouling: The Continuing Problem
September -		Pervaporation: An Energy-Saving Opportunity
August -		Pharmaceutical Water
July -		Trends in Ultrapure Water
June -		New Developments in Hemodialysis
May -		Packaged Wastewater Treatment Plants: A Membrane Bioreactor Opportunity
April -		Ionic-Liquid Membranes
March -		Natural-Gas Cleanup beyond Carbon Dioxide
February -		Transport-Membrane Reactors

	2004	Download all 2004 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2004: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2005
November -		Membrane Advances in Food and Beverage Processing
October -		Polymeric Air-Separation Membranes
September -		Capacitive Deionization: Competitor to Reverse Osmosis?
August -		Membrane Chromatography
July -		Battery Separators: An Application for Polymeric Membranes
June -		Recent Developments in High-Temperature Membranes for PEMFCs
May -		Smart Nanostructured Membranes: Commercial Objectives, Technlogy Challenges and Constraints Recent Developments: Polyaniline-Based Purification Membranes • Development of Intrinsically Porous Polymers
April -		Membranes in Regenerative Medicine
March -		Recent Developments: PolyFuel Designs Membrane for DMFC • GE and Pall Combine Their Membrane Systems • Saudi Arabia Plans New Desalination Plants • Vertex Membranes for the Pharmaceutical Industry
February -		Recent Developments: Zenon Receives Contract from China • USFilter Provides Membrane System to the California Sierra Mountains • Ionics Acquires Ecolochem, GE Acquires Amersham, and Pentair Buys Everpure • Singapore Begins Desalination Plant Construction

	2003	Download all 2003 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2003: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2004
November -		Membrane Bioreactor Market Prospects Improve Recent Developments: VE Sells off Substantial Part of USFilter Announcement: Next Generation Technologies
October -		Asia Moves to Desalination Recent Developments: Portable Membrane Detects AIDS • Biomass Concentrator Reactor Removes MTBE
September -		Membrane-Separation Commercialization Has Implications
August -		Recent Developments: Point-of-Use AquaSafe Membrane Protects Hospital Water Supplies • Hydranautics Receives Nanofiltration Membrane Contract • AquaSonics Develops Alternative Technology to Desalination
July -		Recent Developments: Membrane Reactor Reduces Trans-Fatty-Acid Content • UF Membranes Replace Conventinal Water-Treatment Facilities
June -		Recent Developments: Toray's Improved DMFC • Hydranautics's Membrane Significantly Rejects Salt • Coalition Promotes Desalination
May -		The Changing Face of the Hemodialysis Industry
April -		Recent Developments: Pervaporation-Membrane Process Removes Sulfur from Gasoline • Tampa Bay Desalination Plant Produces Drinking Water from Seawater • Membrane Bioreactor Removes Nitric Oxide from Combustion Gases • Mykrolis Sues Pall for Patent Infringement
March -		Recent Developments: The Food and Beverage Industry Uses Membranes • USFilter Begins Wter Security Program • Alfa Laval Acquires Danish Separation Systems Players: Millipore Moves Headquarters to Billerica
February -		Recent Developments: USFilter Continues Its Restructuring Plans • Pall Releases Products for the Biopharmaceutical Market • Companies Build New Membrane Technology Plants in Asia • Research Paper Discusses New Brine-Disposal Techniques

	2002	Download Aug.–Dec. 2002 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2002: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2003
November -		Membrane Separation Markets in Asia
October -		Membranes in Hydrogen Processing and Production Recent Developments: An Enantiomer-Separating Membrane
September -		Recent Developments: LANL Develops High-Temperature Gas-Separating Membrane • GE Betz Offers Membrane-Regeneration Services • KMS's New Element is 15% Smaller • Membrane Aids Proteomics Screening
August -		Membranes in Shipboard Systems Recent Developments: Membrane to Reduce Boron Levels in Seawater
July -		U.S. Evaluates Desalination Issues Recent Developments: Model Detemines the Ability of Membranes to Reject Organics • USFilter Wins Large Microfiltration Contract
June -		Water Industry: Mergers and Acquisitions Recent Developments: Implantable Membrane to Monitor Blood Glucose Explorer Announcement
May -		Membranes in Biopharmaceutical Processing
April -		Heightened Regulations: What Now for the Membrane Industry?
March -		Filtration Market and Response to the Threat of Terrorism Players: Pall's Agreement to Acquire Filtration and Separations Group from USFilter
February -		Recent Developments: Release of Home Microfiltration Drinking-Water Product • Application for Inorganic Membranes in Waste Processing • Potential Breakthrough for Diabetes Patients

	2001
Dec/Jan -		2001: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2002
November -		The Ceramic Membranes Market Players: eFiltration: Back to Filtration Group Inc. after 20 Months
October -		"Smart" Memebranes
September -		Proton Exchange Membranes for Fuel Cells: Update
August -		Water Desalination Industry Update
July -		Recent Developments: ZenoGem Technology Receives Wastewater-Treatment Award • Zenon Receives Orders from Power Industry Companies • Membrane Bioreactor Converts Fumaric Acid into Malic Acid Players: Porvair Acquires Fairey Microfiltrex and 2Fi • Celanese Sells Nadir Filtration GmbH • Whatman Acquires HemaSure
June -		Membranes for Water Desalination in the Middle East Recent Developments: $10 million Wastewater Contract for Zenon
May -		Life-Science Sample Preparation
April -		Biofouling Solutions in Reverse Osmosis Recent Developments: Arsenic Standards
March -		The Blood-Filter Market Recent Developments: Fouling-Resistant Membranes for Water Treatment • Ultraviolet Technology for Further Purification of Drinking Water • Two New Highly Selective Membranes from Carbon Membranes
February -		The Role of E-Commerce in the Membrane Separation Industry Players: Correction to Ballard/Dow Relationship

	2000
Dec/Jan -		2000: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2001
November -		Water Use and Reuse at Semiconductor Plants Recent Developments: Millipore to Separate Biosciences and Microelectronics • Major Contracts for Pall in the Water Industry
October -		"Smart" Membranes: What Are They? Recent Developments: ASHRAE Proposes Standard for Cabin-Air Filtration on Aircraft Players: Dow Membranes Supply Nanofiltration Plant
September -		Recent Developments: Membranes for Drinking-Water Posttreatment • Porous Silicon Nitride Membrane • Membrane Technology in Portable Breathing Air-Supply Apparatus • Method for Making Hollow Fiber Ceramic Membranes Players: Norit N.V. to Acquire Stork Friesland's Membrane Unit
August -		Proton Exchange Membranes for Fuel Cells
July -		Single-Enantiomer Compounds: Potential Market for Membrane Separation Players: Ionics in Two New Ventures • New Systems Assembly Plant
June -		Recent Developments: Membranes for MTBE Removal • Membranes and Orange-Juice Sterilization • Greatly Reduced Arsenic Standard for Drinking Water • Whatman's Industrial Business to Parker Hannifin
May -		Albuquerque to Demonstrate Membrane Technology to Remove Arsenic from Drinking Water Players: North American Distribution Rights to RenalTech's BetaSorb Device
April -		Recent Developments: New Adsorption Technology May Improve Hemodialysis Performance • Liver Dialysis Is an Emerging Membrane Application • New Syngas Process Moves to the Pilot Phase Players: Dow Will Double Membrane Capacity • Gambro Expands Dialyzer Production in Germany • Sulzer Introduces New Silica Membrane for Pervaporation
March -		Microporous Metal Membranes: What's New? Players: Brody to Recycling Centers of America • Whatman to Focus on DNA Isolation and Purification
February -		Microporous Ceramic Membranes Players: DuPont Not Accepting New Orders for Its Hollow-Fiber RO Modules • A U.S. Branch for Eurodia

	1999
Dec/Jan -		1999: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2000
November -		Water Supply and Security: A Third-Decade Challenge Recent Developments: Manhattan Scientifics Inc. to Commercialize Nanosponge Technology Market Development: Growing Use of POU Devices Players: ACX Technologies to Spin Off Coors Ceramics • Envig to Weir Westgarth
October -		Recent Developments: New Chemically Tailored Membranes for Special Applications • New Microbial Detection Methods under Development Market Development: $10 Billion in the Next Five Years for New Desalination Projects Players: Additional Players in Electrodialysis and Electrodeionization • Dais and Analytic to Merge • Vivascience and Filtrak to Sartorius • Permabond's New Adhesives for Membrane Applications
September -		Improvements in Reverse-Osmosis Membranes Recent Developments: Infection Prevention with Silver-Coated Medical Devices • Improvements in Ion-Exchange Membranes Players: Zyza Tech Water Systems to Osmonics • Tayca to Commercialize Cation Exchange Membranes
August -		Explorer Technology Charts
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July -		More Stringent Controls for Arsenic in Drinking Water: Opportunity for Membranes? Recent Developments: Catalytically Active Membranes • Middle East Desalination Research Center Research Proposals Players: Majority Interest in Abcor • Nuclepore to Whatman • Zenon Business Announcements
June -		Market Overview: Hemodialysis Recent Developments: More Funding for Gas-to-Liquids Technology Using Ceramic Membranes Players: Cascade's Austin Unit • OxyTech Systems, Inc., Sold to ELTECH
May -		Recent Developments: U.S. Water Survey Results: More People Using Less Water • Membranes to Treat Runoff • Minntech Membrane Approved for Medical Applications Players: Commodore's Stock Delisted • Osmonics's Addition to Product Line • New Inorganic Membrane from Pall • Vivendi to Acquire US Filter • Pennsylvania for Zenon's New Membrane Plant
April -		Industry Overview: Electrically Driven Separations Players: New Player in Ceramic Membranes for Pervaporation
March -		Recent Developments: New Membrane Process for Lubricating Oils Production • Vision 2020 Roadmaps Available • Developments in Membrane Contactors Players: Changes to Ceramic Membrane Alliance
February -		Marketing Strategies Case Study: Cynara's Membrane Technology for Carbon Dioxide Removal from Natural Gas Players: Texaco's Pervaporation Equipment and Intellectual Property to Texas A&M • Membrana: Now Part of Acordis Group

	1998
Dec/Jan -		1998: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 1999
November -		Expanding Commercial Applications for Membranes Recent Developments: Pervaporation/Vapor Permeation: Economically Attractive in MTBE Production • Membrane Costs Dropping Players: Plant Expansions
October -		New Lows for the Cost of Potable Water from Seawater? Recent Developments: Cascade Separations to Make Ultrapure IPA Using Hollow-Fiber Membrane Technology Players: New Player in Ceramic Membranes • Osmonics Reengineering • Reorganization at Pall
September -		Recent Developments: Combined Adsorption-UF Process Increases TOC Removal • Oxygen Ion-Conducting Membranes Continue to Be Area of Active Research Areas to Monitor: Prohibition on Point-of-Use Devices to Comply with U.S. National Primary Drinking Water Regulations Is Gone • Water Suppliers Will Sell Water-Related Products and Services Applications: Using Membranes to Increase Sensor Robustness
August -		Report from the American Water Works Association's Membrane Technology Research Committee Players: Fluid Systems from Anglian Water to Koch • Advanced Membrane to ESCO Electronics • Allied's Solvent Spinning Technology to Hills, Inc. • Celgard: Hoechst's Separation Products Business Unit • Millipore's Waste Dispute
July -		Commercial Liquid Membrane System Introduced by Commodore Separation Technologies, Inc. Recent Developments: Rational Design of Molecular Materials • Membranes for Carbon Dioxide Recovery
June -		Highlights of the 10th Annual North American Membrane Society Meeting
May -		Case Study: Membrane Technology May Make Ethyl Lactate an Economically Viable Alternative to Conventional Solvents Recent Developments: New Materials Show Promise for Membranes • Electrospinning Creates Fabric Membranes • California Water Plan Forecasts Shortage • U.S. EPA Issues Health Advisory on MTBE Players: Air Products Integrates Its Hydrocarbon Separation Equipment Businesses
April -		Highlights from the National Workshop on Process Waste Reduction via Separation Technologies and Separative Reactors Recent Developments: Biological Process to Remove Nitrates from Drinking Water Players: Osmonics's Acquisitions • Pall/Coors JV to Commercialize Inorganic Membranes Made with DOE Technology
March -		Recent Developments: Working with Fouling • Pushing the Limits of Gas Separation • Artificial Pancreas One Step Closer • Guidelines for Reverse Osmosis and Ultrafilters for Hemodialysis • HemaSure and Manufacture and Sale of Leukonet Filters • Nanofiltration for Recovering Spent Cleaning-In-Place Solutions • Reverse Osmosis for Drinking Water • Polyether Sulfone Membrane as Alternative to Nitrocellulose Players: U.S. Filter to Acquire Culligan • Hydrogen Metal Membrane Technology from Bend Research • Employee Buyout for Dow's Membrane Filtration Systems Business • X-Flow BV to NORIT
February -		Recent Developments: PTFE Solvent • Membranes for MTBE Removal • Thin Film with Controllable Pore Size • Clothing to Prevent Virus Transmission • Funding Approved for Selective-Membrane Platforms • Advance in RO for Desalination Players: Protean plc • Baxter Exclusive Distributor of Certain Minntech Hemofilters • Rochem Assets to Pall Corporation • Conference Update

	1997
Dec/Jan -		1997: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 1998
November -		Recent Developments: Polymeric Membranes with Improved Thermal and Chemical Resistance • Membrane to Keep Windows Clear • Biocompatible Membranes and Artificial Skin Market Development: Membrane Technology for Perfluorocarbon Recovery and Recycling Participants: Aquilo Gas Separation to Whatman • Expanded Water Treatment Capabilities • U.S. Filter to Acquire Memtec
October -		Recent Developments: Potable Water Costs Examined Market Development: Power Generation Capacity Participants: GFT Now Part of Sulzer Chemtech
September -		Recent Developments: Fuel Cells for Automotive Applications • Hydrophilic Ultrafiltration Membrane from PCI • New Ways to Clean Membranes • Removal of HIV Virus with Millipore Membrane • Japan to Install Membranes for Cryptosporidum Removal • Membrane to Reduce Clotting in Vascular Grafts Participants: Nomura Microsciences to Sell Ionics Electrodeionization Products • Pressmetall Krebsöge GmbH to Sinter Metals • Expansion of Japanese Manufacturers
August -		Ceramic Membranes Recent Developments: Membrane to Decompose Organic Compounds • Electrodialysis and Surfactant Production • Enzyme to Combat Biofilms • Gas Selectivity and Increased Shear Rates in Hollow Fiber Spinning • Another Alliance to Develop Ceramic Oxygen Separation Membrane Reactor Participants: Minntech Corp. • Smart Chemical Company's Zeolite Membrane for Pervaporation • Plant Expansions • Acquisitions
July -		Facilitated Transport and Liquid Membranes Recent Developments: DOE to Fund Development of Ceramic Oxygen Separation Membrane Participants: Vessel srl to Memtec • Membrane Scrap Allegedly Hazardous Waste
June -		Dialysis Business Becoming More Concentrated Recent Developments: Multiflow Chromatography • Membrane to Link Computer Chip with Living Cell • Temporary Skin Substitute • Membranes for Controlled Release Participants: Court Upholds Pall Patent • Conference Update
May -		Carbon-Aerogel Technology for Capacitive Deionization of Water • Solar Desalting System • Low-Pressure Reverse Osmosis Membranes • Funds Uncertain for 1996 Water Desalination Act • Water Reclamation Demonstration Program for Port Hueneme • Desalination • Pall/Gelman Merger Complete
April -		Oxygen Membrane Separation Technologies
March -		Developments in Hydrogen Separation Membranes
February -		Microencapsulation of Multiple Drugs • Membrane Cleaning by Electrolysis • Separating Chiral Compounds • Waste Stream: A Revenue Stream • Leukocyte Removal from Blood to Reduce Postsurgical Infections • Impact of Surface Structure on Membrane Performance • Element Manufacturing Capacity for Fluid Systems • U.S. Filter to Acquire Businesses from Wheelabrator

	1996
Dec/Jan -		1996: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 1997
November -		Electric Fields and Membrane Fouling in Mammalian Cell Culture • Applications for Small-Diameter Wires • Improved Membrane Modification and Repair Techniques • Possible Spiral Wound Module Processing Capacity Increases • Increasing Demand by Improving Reliability • Pall Corporation Announces Merger with Gelman • Millipore to Acquire Amicon • Osmonics's Acquisition of Desalination Systems • Conference Update for 1997
October -		MTR Patents Process to Separate Chlorine from Gas Streams • Membranes Speed Count of Bacteria Levels in Food • IBC Develops Molecular Traps • Polymers May Expand Opportunities for Ultrafiltration • China's Expanding Electrical Capacity May Create Opportunities for Reverse Osmosis • Sandia Will Evaluate Water Conservation Technologies • Membrane Air Separation Plants Increase Output
September -		Membranes on the World Wide Web • Reduced Driving Force, Improved Pervaporation Economics • Unique Membrane for Separating an Electrolyte and a Nonelectrolyte at Normal Pressure • Membrane Fouling Reduction Using Fuzzy Controller • Chloralkali Production in China
August -		New Membrane for Separation and Concentration of High-Molecular-Weight Organic Ions • New Hollow Fiber Ceramic Membrane Production Technology • Low-Fouling Polymeric Membranes • Spinning Disc Improves Separation • Microporous Membrane with Cation Exchange Capacity • Reverse Osmosis Membranes for Silica Removal from Boiler Feedwater • Ceramic Membrane Separators for Lead Acid Batteries • Industry Leaders in Separations Patents • 1996 Inventory of Worldwide Desalting Plants • Strategic Alliance between Millipore and Celsis • Ionics to Acquire Separation Technology, Inc. • Gelman to Merge with Memtec
July -		Highlights of the 8th Annual North American Membrane Society Meeting • Free Evaluation of New Water Conservation Technologies • Ceramic Membrane Technology Acquisitions • Carbone Lorraine Group to Sell Pervaporation Business • Memtec and Seitz-Filter-Werke • Wheelabrator in an Alliance with Glegg • Sartorius to Acquire Dow Denmark A/S
June -		Hemodialysis: Regulatory and Market Update • Flux Changing Ion Exchange Membrane • Bandages to Promote Wound Healing • Removing Organics from Aqueous Solutions • Microfiltration for Disinfection • Dow's Refocused Membrane Activities • Osmonics Inc. and Desalination Systems, Inc., to Merge • Liquid Carbonic Industries Corporation to Praxair, Inc. • W. R. Grace to Spin Off National Medical Care
May -		Membrane-Based Bandage • New Materials for Fuel Cell Use • Improved Methods for Hollow-Fiber Production • Ion Exchange and RO • National Medical Care to Fresenius
April -		Removing Tritium From Wastewater • New Polyelectolyte-Filled Membrane • New Membrane Handbook Available • Phytoremediation to Compete with Membrane Separation • Changes at Dow • New Acquisitions for Ionics
March -		Electrostatic Pseudo Liquid Membrane from China • Coating Membranes to Reduce Fouling • Agricultural Applications of Membranes • Liquid Carbonic to Praxair • Asahi and Tokuyama Merger • Pall Patent Infringement Suit
February -		Improvements in Gas Separations • Developments from Air Products • Multistage Gas Separation • New Anisotropic Membrane from Praxair • Improved Membrane and Electrode Cells • Membranes in Champagne Production • Osmonics System and USP Specifications • Patent Dispute between Sartorius and Gelman • Toray Set to Build Japan's Largest Seawater Desalination Plant
Dec/Jan -		1995: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 1996