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Q: Are there any commercially available membrane systems at this time?
A: There are many commercial membrane systems available, with > 5 companies making reverse osmosis membranes for water treatment (Dow Filmtec, Hydranautics, Toray, Koch, CSM, Toyobo, GE Osmonics etc) and a comparable number of companies making MF/UF systems (Siemens, Dow, GE, Pall,... more
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Carbon dioxide (red and grey, barbell shaped) being removed from natural gas, leaving behind methane (grey and white)
Dr Anita Hill of CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering with equipment for testing water purification using hollow fibre membranes
Dr Steven Pas of CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering using positron annihilation spectroscopy equipment for measuring tiny pores in membranes
Dr Stephen Mudie of CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering using the Small Angle X-ray Scattering equipment (SAXS), used to examine the development of the hourglass-shaped pores
(left) Hollow fibre membrane module used in pilot hall MBRs and (right) Two pilot plant MBRs
Bubbles rising through submerged hollow fibre membranes
(left) Cobalt-silica membrane coated on stainless steel substrate, (center) after 1100 hours exposure to post combustion power plant flue gas at ~70°C and 15% humidity, and (right) after cleaning
Dr Andrew Groth, Bruce Biltoft, Professor Tony Fane and Associate Professor Mikel Duke at the Official Launch of the MSA
Professor Stephen Gray, Dr Anita Hill, Bruce Biltoft, Dr Andrew Groth, Associate Professor Mikel Duke, Professor Tony Fane, Jianhua Zhang, Associate Professor Sandra Kentish, Dr Bradley Ladewig and Ludovic Dumee at the Official Launch of the MSA
Ludovic Dumée is presented with an MSA travel award (valued at AU$500 from Millipore Australia)  to cover the cost of attending the Aseanian Membrane Society Conference in Kobe, Japan 12-14/07/2009
Leonora Velleman is presented with an MSA travel award (valued at AU$500 from Millipore Australia)  to cover the cost of attending the Aseanian Membrane Society Conference in Kobe, Japan 12-14/07/2009
Cameron Shearer is awarded a poster prize at the Euromembrane 2009 conference (Montpellier, France, 6-10/09/2009).
MSA Student Symposium 2010 opening ceremony cocktails
MSA Student Symposium 2010 posters

 

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