Water Membranes News
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Jessica Schiffman Wins NSF Grant To Sustainably Produce Polymer Membranes For Water Purification
1/11/2023
Jessica Schiffman, Gary R. Lapidus Faculty Fellow in Chemical Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation grant to produce polymer membranes — a process that currently generates billions of liters of toxic, solvent-contaminated wastewater a year — using a sustainable, environmentally friendly and toxin-free method.
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NX Filtration Receives Follow-On Order From Ekopak For Water Treatment Project In Belgium
1/10/2023
Ekopak, an ESG-driven company specializing in decentralized circular water solutions such as Water-as-a-Service (WaaS), selected NX Filtration, the global provider of breakthrough direct nanofiltration (dNF) membrane technology for pure and affordable water, to supply its dNF membranes for the extension of a rainwater recovery project in Belgium.
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Innovative Pretreatment Improves RO Performance And Lowers Costs
1/9/2023
Providing new sources of potable water for Saudi Arabia’s growing population and expanding industry has been a key preoccupation of the desert country for many years. The Kingdom has relied on desalinated water since the 1950s and is now the largest producer of desalinated water in the world with 60 percent of its water coming from desalination in 2019.
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Manufacturing A Cleaner Future
12/22/2022
Manufacturing had a big summer. The CHIPS and Science Act, signed into law in August, represents a massive investment in U.S. domestic manufacturing. The act aims to drastically expand the U.S. semiconductor industry, strengthen supply chains, and invest in R&D for new technological breakthroughs. According to John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity at MIT, the CHIPS Act is just the latest example of significantly increased interest in manufacturing in recent years.
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India-Based Company Permionics To Service Solar Wafer Orders Of Over 10 GW Capacity
12/19/2022
Permionics, a Gujarat-based pioneer in membrane technology, is on its way to making major changes in the way we approach sustainability.
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Designing Better Water Filters With AI
11/30/2022
Even the best water filters let some things through, but designing improved materials and then testing them is time consuming and difficult. Now, researchers in ACS Central Science report that artificial intelligence (AI) could speed up the development of promising materials.
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Novel Mix-Charged Developed For Wastewater Treatment
11/30/2022
A research group led by Prof. WAN Yinhua from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel "etching-swelling-planting" strategy following interfacial polymerization (IP) to prepare a mix-charged nanofiltration (NF) membrane for wastewater treatment.
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New 2D Nanomaterial Membrane Unleashes Ocean Energy
11/28/2022
When thinking of renewable energy sources, it is often solar or wind that spring to mind first – but what about ocean energy?
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Benefits Of Membrane Filtration Systems For Ambient WFI Production
11/21/2022
The shift to membrane-based WFI production can significantly reduce utility use, shrink facility footprint requirements, and help meet corporate sustainability goals.
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Gradiant, Global Water Solutions Provider, Awarded $20M In New Contracts In India
11/16/2022
Gradiant, a global solutions provider for advanced water and wastewater treatment, is pleased to announce awards of $20 million in new contracts in September and October 2022. The awards are for clients in the manufacturing of photovoltaic cells (or solar cells) renewable energy and industrial protective equipment. All three projects will be delivered as design-build contracts.