90,000 SHIPS
BUSINESS WEEK reported that 90,000 commercial vessels — roaming and crisscrossing the oceans — are contributing more to pollution — notably carbon dioxide - and ‘Global Warming’ than 10 of the 39 industrial nations originally included in the ‘Kyoto Protocol’, The INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON CLEAN TRANSPORATATION came to that conclusion. Since virtually all ships are "diesel powered", the DPF concept will one day apply to boats and ships, thus creating an unbelievable potential for filtration. We are as of today however, not very optimistic that that will happen soon!!!!
ULTRAFILTRATION IN A BOTTLE
LIFESAVER SYSTEMS in England introduced a very unique water bottle. With their ‘Failsafe’ technology they can remove bacteria, viruses, cysts, parasites, fungi and other water born contaminants without chemicals. With 15 nm filtration capabilities, it creates fresh water instantly, safely for a soldier or marine. A brilliant idea.
Additional details from:
www.lifesaversytems.com
DRINKING WATER - LOW PRESSURE MEMBRANES
SIEMENS WATER TECHNOLOGY is supplying ‘low-pressure membrane’ technology to provide reliable sources of drinking water to communities without a safe water supply. SKYJUICE FOUNDATION in Australia offers units to convert contaminated water into ‘clean, potable water’ that exceeds the WOLRD HEALTH ORGANISATION’s requirements for drinking water.
www.siemens.com
POTENTIAL FOR MEMBRANE FILTRATION
FILTER MEDIA CONSULTING INC. made an early decision to basically stay away from UF (ULTRA FILTRATION) and also RO (REVERSE OSMOSIS). We do follow many developments but have never claimed to be very knowledgeable about these great filtration fields. Waste water however is becoming an ever important issue. A brewery in Australia is one of the first of its kind to have installed a membrane bioreactor and RO system (KMS) to conserve potable water. They claim actually to have conserved 100 million gallons of potable water each year. Breweries consume a huge amount of fresh water, as do other ‘beverage’ producing facilities. We believe this could have a tremendous potential for new business.
www.kochmembrane.com
NANO POROUS SOLUTIONS LTD
Technology developed by the UNIVERSITY OF BATH is commercialized by NANO POROUS SOLUTIONS LTD. with a grant of £ 250,000 from the UK CARBON TRUST’s Applied Research Scheme. This new type of regenerative adsorbent hollow fiber could lower energy consumption by up to half of that used by current technology in ‘compressed air’ treatment systems. This could translate into huge savings of tons of CO2 in coming years.
www.n-psl.com
SSP AIR MEDIA
JOHNS MANVILLE has introduced new air filtration media incorporating "Assurance" "Self-Supporting-Pleat" — SSP — technology for residential HVAC commercial and industrial applications. ASSURANCE is a nonwoven composite media made by natural and synthetic fibres and can produce MERV 6 — 8 filters. This technology can eliminate ‘expanded metal’ use, thus streamlining manufacturing; it offers cost savings and ‘safety aspects’.
www.jm.com
LYPORETM DEFENDER® MEDIA FROM LYDALL
Lydall announced a new ‘liquid’ media series. Extensive research has led to a new LyPoreTM Defender® series available in 3, 6, 10 and 20 micron efficiency with standard acrylic latex binder or optional epoxy binder for more demanding temperature requirements. This wet-laid microglass material advances the performance capabilities in fluid power and automotive applications.
www.lydall.com
4800 MW MEDUPI IN SOUTH AFRICA
"Eskom has awarded a $235-million contract to SPX Corp. to supply components to the coal-fired Medupi power station in South Africa. SPX will supply filters and air preheaters, and manufacture pressure parts for all six of Medupi power station’s 800-MW boilers."
This information comes from the latest FABRIC FILTER NEWSLETTER from the McILVAINE COMPANY. We wanted to demonstrate the fiber/filter media consumption on such "large" — 6 units each 800 Megawatt — baghouse installation.
Considering PPS fiber to be used, 4cfm/kW x ½ cloth-to-air ratio would amount to 0.22tons/MW/year. 4800 MW consequently will consume 1,056 to. of PPS fiber for this one job at MEDUPI power station in South Africa. If we assume a 500 g/m² fabric, this would amount to 2,112,000 m² filter media for just one location. As far as we know, this will become the largest "pulse jet" baghouse installation worldwide.
www.mcilvainecompany.com
CO2 FILTERING MEMBRANES TO BE TESTED IN 4 POWER PLANTS
"The Norwegian University of Science and Technology developed a CO2 filtering membrane which will be tested at four large power plants in Europe within five years. Professor May-Britt Häag, head of the membrane research group (MEMFO) at NTNU's chemical engineering department, says that the membrane is the first cost-effective means of removing CO2 from flue gas. Häag also says that the membrane can easily retrieve 85 percent of the CO2 at 90 percent purity. MEMFO's membrane uses a comparatively immobile polyvinylamine nanoplastic as a "fixed-site-carrier," with NH4F crosslinked in its polymer structure for improved anion exchange. When saturated with water vapor from the flue gas, the amine and fluoride ions will individually complex with CO2 as bicarbonate. Frequent regeneration of the membrane is not needed as the HCO3 anion remerges as CO2 after it is shuttled through".
Source: THE McILVAINE COMPANY.
More details: www.mcilvainecompany.com
Major filtration events 2008:
INDEX Geneva / Switzerland — April 15 — 18, 2008 , www.edana.org
WFC 2008 Leipzig/Germany — April 14 - 18, 2008 www.wfc10.org
CTMA Shanghai / China — May 28-30, 2008 , www.cnta.co.com
FILTREX Cologne / Germany —October 28-30, 2008 , www.edana.org
INDA FILTRATION Philadelphia — December 9 - 11, 2008 www.inda.org
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