公开(公告)号：US20040222157A1

公开(公告)日：2004-11-11

申请号：US10773789

申请日：2004-02-06

发明人： Bhupender S. Minhas ,  Dennis G. Peiffer ,  Jorge L. Soto ,  David L. Stern ,  Tomas R. Melli ,  Jeffrey S. Beck ,  Steven Ackerman ,  David C. Dalrymple ,  Alexander D.S. Fremuth ,  Walter Weissman ,  Frederick J. Krambeck

IPC分类号： B01D061/00

CPC分类号： B01D61/362 ,  B01D61/02 ,  B01D61/246 ,  B01D61/58 ,  B01D71/38 ,  C01B17/902 ,  C01B17/905 ,  C01B17/92

摘要： A method for recovering acid from a feed mixture comprising acid, hydrocarbons and water, the method comprising: processing said mixture using a first polymeric membrane to form a first retentate containing a substantially greater concentration of hydrocarbons than said feed mixture and a first permeate containing a substantially greater concentration of acid and water than said mixture, said first polymeric membrane being selectively permeable to the acid and water over the hydrocarbons found in the mixture, and recovering the first permeate; said first permeate can be processed further using a second water reduction mean to form a first stream containing a substantially greater concentration of acid than said first permeate and a second stream containing a substantially greater concentration of water than said first permeate, said water reduction step may be a second polymeric membrane being selectively permeable to the water over the acid in said first permeate; and recovering said second stream or retentate.

摘要翻译： 一种从包含酸，烃和水的进料混合物中回收酸的方法，所述方法包括：使用第一聚合物膜处理所述混合物以形成含有比所述进料混合物大得多的烃浓度的第一渗余物，以及含有 比所述混合物大得多的酸和水的浓度，所述第一聚合物膜在混合物中发现的烃上选择性地渗透酸和水，并回收第一渗透物; 可以使用第二减水装置进一步处理所述第一渗透物，以形成含有比所述第一渗透物更大浓度的酸的第一物流和含有比所述第一渗透物大得多的水浓度的第二物流，所述减水步骤可以 是第二聚合物膜，其在所述第一渗透物中的酸上选择性渗透水; 并回收所述第二流或滞留物。

公开(公告)号：US20040182788A1

公开(公告)日：2004-09-23

申请号：US10394828

申请日：2003-03-21

发明人： Randel Dorian ,  Richard Wood Storrs

IPC分类号： B01D061/00 ,  B01D024/00 ,  B01D029/00

CPC分类号： B01J20/28047 ,  B01D15/02 ,  B01J2220/64 ,  B01J2220/68 ,  B01L3/5635 ,  B01L2300/0681 ,  B01L2400/0478 ,  G01N1/40 ,  G01N1/405 ,  Y10T436/25375 ,  Y10T436/255

摘要： A plasma concentrator for producing plasma concentrate from a plasma from which erythrocytes have been substantially removed. The device comprises a concentrating chamber having an inlet port and an concentrate outlet, the concentrating chamber containing hydrogel beads and at least one inert agitator; and a concentrate chamber having an inlet communicating with the concentrator outlet through a filter, and having an plasma concentrate outlet port. A process for producing plasma concentrate from plasma from which erythrocytes have been substantially removed, comprising the steps of a) moving the plasma into a concentrating chamber containing hydrogel beads and an agitator to form a hydrogel bead-plasma mixture; b) causing the agitator to stir the hydrogel bead-plasma mixture, facilitating absorption of water by the beads from the plasma, until a hydrogel bead-plasma concentrate is formed; and c) separating the plasma concentrate from the hydrogel beads by passing the plasma concentrate through a filter. The concentrator can be one or more syringe devices coupled for multiple concentrations.

摘要翻译： 用于从已经基本上除去红细胞的血浆中产生血浆浓缩物的血浆浓缩器。 该装置包括具有入口和浓缩物出口的浓缩室，该浓缩室含有水凝胶珠和至少一种惰性搅拌器; 以及浓缩物室，其具有通过过滤器与浓缩器出口连通并具有等离子体浓缩物出口的入口。 一种用于从已经基本上除去红细胞的血浆中产生血浆浓缩物的方法，包括以下步骤：a）将血浆移动到含有水凝胶珠和搅拌器的浓缩室中以形成水凝胶珠 - 等离子体混合物; b）使搅拌器搅拌水凝胶珠 - 等离子体混合物，促进珠粒从等离子体吸收水分，直到形成水凝胶珠 - 浆料浓缩物; 和c）通过使血浆浓缩物通过过滤器将血浆浓缩物与水凝胶珠分离。 浓缩器可以是连接多个浓度的一个或多个注射器装置。

公开(公告)号：US20040182784A1

公开(公告)日：2004-09-23

申请号：US10391455

申请日：2003-03-17

发明人： Kimberly A. Walker ,  Alan A. Davidner ,  Scott R. Mallett

IPC分类号： B01D061/00

CPC分类号： A61M1/3681 ,  A61L2/0011 ,  A61L2/0017 ,  A61M1/3431 ,  A61M1/3441 ,  A61M1/3468 ,  A61M1/3472 ,  A61M1/3683 ,  A61M2205/053 ,  A61M2205/75

摘要： 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 microorganisms, a hemoconcentrator/filtration unit to remove approximately 50-75% of target molecules from the patient blood and a filter unit to remove target molecules from patient blood from the sieved plasma filtrate. Target molecules are produced by microorganisms, as well as by the patient's cells. These molecules include endotoxins from Gram negative bacteria, exotoxins from Gram negative and Gram positive bacteria, as well as RAP protein mediator from Staphylococcus aureus, and cell mediators such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and interleukin 1-beta, interleukin 6, complement proteins C3a and C5a, and bradykinin.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种预防和治疗患者血液中败血症的方法和装置。 体外系统包括用于灭活至少99％的血源性微生物的抗微生物装置，血液浓缩器/过滤单元以从患者血液中除去大约50-75％的靶分子，以及过滤器单元以从筛选的患者血液中除去靶分子 血浆滤液。 靶分子由微生物以及患者的细胞产生。 这些分子包括来自革兰氏阴性细菌的内毒素，来自革兰阴性和革兰氏阳性细菌的外毒素，以及来自金黄色葡萄球菌的RAP蛋白质介质，以及细胞介质如肿瘤坏死因子-α和白介素1-β，白细胞介素6，补体蛋白 C3a和C5a以及缓激肽。

公开(公告)号：US20040144723A1

公开(公告)日：2004-07-29

申请号：US10725858

申请日：2003-12-01

发明人： Markus Gloeckle ,  Markus Hernier

IPC分类号： B01D061/00

CPC分类号： F02M33/00 ,  F02M1/165 ,  F02M25/14 ,  F02M37/0064 ,  Y02T10/121

摘要： A method and a device for supplying a fuel, in particular for operating combustion engines in motor vehicles, turbines or the like, the fuel being split at a separation means into a first fuel fraction in the form of a retentate and into a second fuel fraction in the form of a permeate. On the permeate side, the separation means is acted upon by a scavenging gas, so that a mixture of the fuel permeate and the scavenging gas is produced.

摘要翻译： 一种用于供应燃料的方法和装置，特别是用于在机动车辆，涡轮机等中操作燃烧发动机的燃料，所述燃料在分离装置处被分成具有滞留物形式的第一燃料部分和第二燃料部分 以渗透物的形式。 在渗透侧，分离装置被清扫气体作用，从而产生燃料渗透物和清除气体的混合物。

公开(公告)号：US20040104170A1

公开(公告)日：2004-06-03

申请号：US10616053

申请日：2003-07-09

发明人： J. Scott Buchanan ,  Lawrence J. Altman ,  John W. Diehl

IPC分类号： B01D061/00

CPC分类号： B01D61/362 ,  B01D61/246 ,  B01D71/24 ,  C07B63/00 ,  C07C29/76 ,  C07C68/08 ,  Y02P20/582 ,  C07C69/96 ,  C07C31/202

摘要： A method for separating at least one lower polarity fluid from a mixture of fluids having varying polarity, comprising contacting at least one low polarity or non-polar polymeric membrane with the mixture of fluids under conditions such that the at least one lower polarity fluid selectively permeates through the membrane, wherein the membrane is one which has a ratio of heteroatoms chemically bonded to the carbon atoms in the membrane to the number of carbon atoms of less than about 0.2, preferably less than about 0.05.

摘要翻译： 一种用于从具有不同极性的流体混合物的混合物中分离至少一种低极性流体的方法，包括使至少一种低极性或非极性聚合物膜与流体混合物接触的条件使得至少一种低极性流体选择性渗透 通过膜，其中膜是具有与膜中碳原子化学键合的杂原子与碳原子数小于约0.2，优选小于约0.05的杂原子的膜。

公开(公告)号：US20040084371A1

公开(公告)日：2004-05-06

申请号：US10288758

申请日：2002-11-06

发明人： Benjamin A. Kellam ,  Scott Keeling ,  Li Pan

IPC分类号： B01D061/00

CPC分类号： A61M1/16 ,  A61M1/288 ,  A61M1/3643 ,  A61M1/3644 ,  A61M1/3649

摘要： A dialysis system and a method for automatically priming a dialyzer are provided. The priming of the dialyzer is accomplished in two steps; namely, the use of a blood pump to prime a dialyzer followed by the use of the blood pump and a dialysate pump to prime the dialyzer. The dialysis system filters a fluid through an extracorporeal circuit, a balanced flow loop and a dialysate loop which is connected to the dialyzer. The dialysis system and method may prevent air or air bubbles from entering the blood stream of a patient during dialysmis. Moreover, the dialysis system may be, for example, a hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis system.

摘要翻译： 提供透析系统和自动启动透析器的方法。 透析器的启动分两步完成： 即使用血液泵来引导透析器，然后使用血液泵和透析泵来引发透析器。 透析系统通过体外电路，平衡流动回路和连接到透析器的透析液回路来过滤流体。 透析系统和方法可以防止空气或气泡在透析期间进入患者的血液流。 此外，透析系统可以是例如血液透析或腹膜透析系统。

公开(公告)号：US20040079706A1

公开(公告)日：2004-04-29

申请号：US10279718

申请日：2002-10-24

申请人： Membrane Technology and Research, Inc.

发明人： Anurag P. Mairal ,  Alvin Ng ,  Johannes G. Wijmans ,  Ingo Pinnau ,  Jennifer H. Ly

IPC分类号： B01D061/00

CPC分类号： B63J4/004 ,  B01D17/02 ,  B01D17/0202 ,  B01D17/0208 ,  B01D17/0217 ,  B01D17/085 ,  B01D61/025 ,  B01D61/04 ,  B01D61/145 ,  B01D61/16 ,  B01D2311/04 ,  C02F1/385 ,  C02F1/40 ,  C02F1/441 ,  C02F1/444 ,  C02F2101/32 ,  C02F2103/008 ,  Y02T70/36 ,  B01D2311/2676

摘要： A process and apparatus for treating oily wastewater, such as bilge water or ballast water, generated on a ship. The process uses a combination of a centrifugal separation step and a membrane separation step, such as an ultrafiltration step. The membrane separation step uses a dense, non-porous filtration membrane. The process is able to remove both emulsified oil and dissolved oil from the wastewater to low levels.

摘要翻译： 用于处理在船上产生的油污水，例如舱底水或压载水的方法和设备。 该方法使用离心分离步骤和膜分离步骤的组合，例如超滤步骤。 膜分离步骤使用致密的，无孔的过滤膜。 该过程能够将乳化油和溶解的油从废水中去除到低水平。

公开(公告)号：US20040074850A1

公开(公告)日：2004-04-22

申请号：US10422074

申请日：2003-04-23

申请人： Praxair Technology, Inc.

发明人： Richard Martin Kelly

IPC分类号： B01D061/00

CPC分类号： C02F1/441 ,  B01D1/2884 ,  C02F1/001 ,  C02F1/02 ,  C02F1/20 ,  C02F1/32 ,  C02F1/42 ,  C02F9/00 ,  C02F2103/04 ,  F25J3/04018 ,  F25J3/0403 ,  F25J3/04612 ,  F25J3/04618 ,  F25J2230/04 ,  F25J2270/90 ,  Y02P70/34

摘要： The present invention relates to the recovery of heat energy, e.g., the heat of compression, from the production of pressurized gases, in particular nitrogen (N2), but also other gases such as compressed dry air. This invention is directed to a system and method for increasing the efficiency in use of energy by recovering energy normally wasted in one device and using the energy in another device needing the energy. In particular, this invention is directed to recovering the heat of compression from a gas generation plant to warm cooling water that is also used as feed water to an ultra pure water generation plant.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及从生产加压气体，特别是氮（N 2），以及其它气体如压缩干燥空气中回收热能，例如压缩热。 本发明涉及通过回收通常在一个设备中浪费的能量并且在需要能量的另一个设备中使用能量来提高能量使用效率的系统和方法。 特别地，本发明涉及从气体发生设备将压缩热恢复到也用作超纯水生产设备的给水的温水冷却水。

公开(公告)号：US20040050791A1

公开(公告)日：2004-03-18

申请号：US10466578

申请日：2003-07-15

发明人： Attila Herczeg

IPC分类号： B01D061/00 ,  B01D063/02

CPC分类号： B01D71/68 ,  B01D61/145 ,  B01D61/147 ,  B01D63/02 ,  B01D67/0011 ,  B01D67/0016 ,  B01D69/02 ,  B01D69/08 ,  B01D69/082 ,  B01D69/087 ,  B01D71/34 ,  B01D2325/022

摘要： A porous asymmetric hollow polymer fiber membrane having an inside surface having a coarse porous structure and an outside surface having a dense porous structure, the average pore size rating of the pores at the inside surface being greater than the average pore size rating of the pores at the outside surface, as well as filters and filter devices comprising one or more of the hollow fiber membranes, the filter and devices preferably being arranged to direct fluid flow from the inside surface of the membranes to the outside surface, and methods of using the filters and filter devices, are disclosed.

摘要翻译： 一种多孔不对称中空聚合物纤维膜，其具有粗多孔结构的内表面和具有致密多孔结构的外表面，内表面的孔的平均孔径等级大于孔内的孔的平均孔径等级 外表面以及包括一个或多个中空纤维膜的过滤器和过滤器装置，过滤器和装置优选地布置成引导流体从膜的内表面流到外表面，以及使用过滤器的方法 和过滤装置。

公开(公告)号：US20040020854A1

公开(公告)日：2004-02-05

申请号：US10211043

申请日：2002-08-02

申请人： Rayonier, Inc.

发明人： Omar F. Ali ,  John T. Cenicola ,  Jian Li ,  Jay D. Taylor

IPC分类号： B01D061/00 ,  D21C003/02 ,  D21C011/10

CPC分类号： C08B1/00 ,  C08B1/08 ,  C08B1/10 ,  C08B1/12 ,  D21C9/004

摘要： Systems and methods by which to subject cellulosic fibers to alkaline treatment are provided. The systems and methods of the invention include equipment, such as nanofiltration units and slurry concentrators, which result in a lowered overall consumption of alkaline solution during alkaline treatment. The systems and methods of the invention further allow the components of hemicaustic streams produced by such alkaline treatments to be utilized in higher value end uses.

摘要翻译： 提供了使纤维素纤维进行碱处理的系统和方法。 本发明的系统和方法包括诸如纳米过滤单元和浆料浓缩器的设备，其在碱处理期间导致碱溶液的总消耗量降低。 本发明的系统和方法还允许通过这种碱处理产生的半透明气流的组分用于更高价值的最终用途。