907 results about "Hollow fibre" patented technology

A group of multiple hollow fibers may be shaped to introduce angular divergence among the fibers, or to introduce a selected longitudinal oscillation into the fibers. In one shaping technique, the fibers are held in parallel while upper and lower crimping assemblies of parallel crimping bars are drawn together on opposite sides of the parallel fibers. When bars of the opposing assemblies draw sufficiently close, they sandwich the fibers in between them, causing each fiber to assume a shape that oscillates as the fiber repeatedly goes over and then under successive bars. Since the crimping bars are aligned at oblique angles to the fibers, the peaks and troughs of successive fibers are offset. While in this position, the fibers are heated and then cooled to permanently retain their shapes. A different shaping technique utilizes a lattice of crisscrossing tines defining multiple apertures. In this technique, the lattice and fibers are positioned so that each fiber passes through one of the apertures. Then, the lattice and/or the fibers are slid apart or together until the lattice holds the fibers in a desired configuration, where the fibers have a prescribed outward divergence relative to each other. While in this position, the fibers are heated and then cooled to permanently retain this angular divergence.

The growth of continuous MOF membranes on porous polymeric supports is reported, wherein a dip-coating procedure is used to deposit a layer of seed MOF nanocrystals on the surfaces of porous polymers, preferably in the form of hollow fibers, and polycrystalline MOF membranes are subsequently grown at temperatures as low as 65° C. from precursor solutions. The present work opens the road to inexpensive and scalable fabrication of MOF membranes for large-scale separation applications.

Mixed matrix membranes are prepared from zeolites and polymers, such as polyimides, in a void free fashion where either no voids or voids of less than several Angstroms are present at the interface of the polymer and the zeolite by bonding (hydrogen, ionic, or covalent) functional groups on the zeolite with functional groups on the polymer. The mixed matrix membranes may be cast or formed by ISAM processes, and may be present on a variety of supports including hollow fibers.

A method for culturing cells, the method comprising: providing a plurality of cellulose hollow fibre capillaries having cells and at least one protein required for proliferation, differentiation and/or genetic modification of the cells therein and optionally at least one metabolite; and providing on the extracapillary side of the semi-permeable substrate at least one metabolite required for proliferation of the cells.

A membrane supported biofilm reactor uses modules having fine, hollow fibres, for example, made from dense wall Poly methylpentene (PMP) used in tows or formed into a fabric. In one module, one or more sheets of the fabric are potted into a module to enable oxygen containing gas to be supplied to the lumens of the hollow fibres. Various reactors and processes, for example to treat wastewater, using such modules are described. Mechanical, chemical and biological methods are used to control the thickness of the biofilm.

Devices and methods are described for pre-processing tissue samples containing cells of interest for various therapeutic procedures. Fibrous material may be extracted from the tissue sample through a shredding and separating device, resulting in a non-fibrous sample containing the cells of interest, which may then be washed and centrifuged to remove fluids, oil, and contaminants. The sample may then be digested in a large-volume container, and a piston within the container may push the resulting liberated cell suspension through a cell concentrator such as a hollow-fiber separation module.

The invention relates to a method for permeabilization of a cell structure consisting of a single cell, an intracellular structure or an organelle comprising the following steps: (a) microelectrodes, preferably two carbon fiber electrodes or hollow fiber electrodes, are provided, (b) the microelectrodes are connected to a power supply, (c) the electrodes, individually controlled by high-graduation micromanipulators, are placed close to the cell structure at an appropriate inter-electrode distance, and (d) a highly focused electric field of a strength sufficient to obtain electroporation is applied between the electrodes. The method may be used in order to transfer cell impermeant solutes, such as drugs or genes, into the cell structure or out of the cell structure, in biosensors, in the treatment of tumours and neurodegenerative diseases and in the study of biophysical processes.

The invention discloses a hydrophilic polyvinylidene fluoride hollow fiber microporous membrane and the preparation method thereof. The main composition and the mass content of the membrane are 70% to 90% of polyvinylidene fluoride, amphiphilic poly-(propylene oxide-oxirane), 5% to 29% of poly-(methacrylic acid- acrylic acid) or poly-(methacrylic acid methyl ester-vinyl alcohol) copolymer and 1% to 5% of nano-silicon dioxide. The membrane preparation method is that all the components are mixed and dissolved with aperture regulator, thickener and solvent to obtain the membrane preparation liquid; after that, the hollow fiber forming is carried out through a dry-wet spinning technique, and finally cleaning and drying are implemented. The obtained membrane has adjustable internal diameter and external diameter, 60% to 80% of porosity and the aperture ranging from 0.01micron to 0.2micron. As a water disposal separating membrane material with excellent performance, the invention has the advantages of being able to be fully humid, organic adsorption resistance and great water flux, etc.

The invention relates to a method for producing ceramic hollow fibers from nanoscale particles and to hollow fibers produced in such a manner. The inventive method is characterized in that the ceramic material has a solids content of >25% by volume, preferably >30% by volume and is processed by means of extrusion and spinning. The hollow fiber is sintered according to conventional sintering methods. A hollow fiber produced in this manner is used for metal, polymer and ceramic matrix reinforcements, for artificial organs, for microsystems technology components, for fiber optical waveguides, for ceramic membranes, for solid electrolyte in fuel cells (SOFC), for tissue engineering and for producing extremely light ceramic parts, such as heat shields or brake systems, that are subjected to temperature stresses. The inventive ceramic batch can also be processed by means of silk screening whereby resulting in the production of filigree structures over the ceramic silk screening.

A filter for an extracorporeal blood circuit including a bundle of hollow fibers having an end section encased in a potting material, wherein the end section of potting material has an end surface with open ends of the fibers distributed throughout the end surface, and a filter header cap having an inlet connectable to a blood line and an open end sealed around a side surface of the end section of the bundle of hollow fibers.

The invention discloses a method for preparing polyvinylidene fluoride ultra-filtration membranes. The method includes the steps of mixing the polyvinylidene fluoride with diluents, and heating the mixture to form a homogeneous phase solution, wherein the diluents are a mixture of a solvent and a non-solvent of the polyvinylidene fluoride, and at least one of the solvent and the non-solvent of the polyvinylidene fluoride can be dissolved in water; subjecting the homogeneous phase solution to knife coating on a supporting screen to form a plate-shaped membrane casting solution or to be spinned into a membrane casting solution in a hollow fiber shape by a spinneret, submerging the membrane casting solution into a cooling liquid to be cooled, subjecting the membrane casting solution to phase separation and solidifying into membranes; extracting the diluents in the membranes through an extracting agent to obtain the polyvinylidene fluoride membranes. Sections of the polyvinylidene fluoride membranes are in a homogeneous spongeous structure with bore diameters in a range of 0.02 to 4 microns, and the membranes have surface layers with surface bore diameters ranging from 2 nanometers to 100 nanometers. Simultaneously, the polyvinylidene fluoride ultra-filtration membranes have the advantages of high strength, porosity, flux and separation accuracy.

Cast semi-permeable membranes made from synthetic polymer used in reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration and microfiltration are treated with a non-leaching antimicrobial agent to prevent its bio-fouling and bacterial breakthrough. The semi-permeable membranes include a polymeric material and a non-leaching antimicrobial agent that is incorporated into and homogeneously distributed throughout the polymeric material. The polymeric material, in the case of one membrane, may be cellulose acetate. In the case of thin film composite polyamide membranes, the antimicrobial agent is incorporated in a microporous polysulfone layer that is sandwiched between a reinforcing fabric and an ultrathin polyamide material. The invention also includes a treatment of flat and hollow fiber semipermeable membranes made with polysulfones and polyvinylidene fluoride.

A bio-artificial organ system is provided comprising a wall surrounding a space which has a solid support for cell cultivation. The space includes a there dimensional matrix in the form of a highly porous sheet or mat and including a physiologically acceptable network of fibers or an open-pore foam structure; hydrophobic hollow fibers permeable to gaseous oxygen or gaseous carbon dioxide evenly distributed through the three dimensional matrix material and arranged in parallel running from one end of the matrix material to the other end of the matrix material. Cells obtained from organs are present in the extra fiber space for culture wherein the cells are provided with sufficient oxygenation and are maintained as small aggregates with three dimensional attachment.

The invention relates to the field of silicon wafer wire-electrode cutting and discloses a method for recycling carborundum and cutting polyethyleneglycol in waste mortar by silicon wafer wire-electrode cutting. In monocrystalline silicon piece processing technique, a viscosity reduction agent is firstly added before waste mortar linear cutting, and then a suspending liquid part and a solid particles part are obtained by the solid-liquid separation; The suspending liquid part is added with a filter aid, then filter pressing with a plate frame, micro porous filtration, hyper filtration with hollow fiber and ion exchange are carried out sequentially, and finally, the suspending liquid is distillated in vacuum and polyethyleneglycol is recycled. Alkali reaction cleaning, water scrubber washing, centrifugalization, acid reaction cleaning, the second water scrubber washing, the second centrifugalization, the second acid reaction cleaning, drying and drying classification are carried out on the solid particles in sequence, and finally, recyclable silicon carbide particles are obtained.

The present invention discloses method for making defect-free high performance mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) containing a continuous polymer matrix and dispersed molecular sieves such as AlPO-14 or UZM-5. These MMMs can be used for separations. The novel method for making defect-free high performance MMMs comprises: post treating the MMM at a temperature ≧150° C. This new method results in a MMM with either no macrovoids or voids of less than 5 angstroms at the interface of the continuous polymer matrix and the molecular sieves. The MMMs are in the form of symmetric dense film, thin-film composite (TFC), asymmetric flat sheet or asymmetric hollow fiber. These MMMs have good flexibility and high mechanical strength, and exhibit high carbon dioxide/methane (CO₂/CH₄) selectivity and high CO₂ permeance for CO₂/CH₄ separation. The MMMs are suitable for a variety of liquid, gas, and vapor separations.

The invention discloses an oxidized graphene metal/metallic oxide nanoparticle modified hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane, and a preparation method thereof. According to the preparation method, anchoring of metal/metallic oxide nanoparticles on oxidized graphene is carried out; an obtained oxidized graphene dispersion liquid loaded with the metal/metallic oxide nanoparticles is added into a membrane material, and a membrane casting solution is obtained via mixing; the membrane casting solution is subjected to weaving so as to obtain the oxidized graphene metal/metallic oxide nanoparticle doped hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane. Mechanical strength, water flux, retention rate, hydrophilic performance, pollution resistance, and service life of the hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane are improved obviously; the preparation method is simple; operation is convenient; and repeatability is high.

The invention relates to a hollow fiber type composite nano-filtration membrane and a preparation method thereof. The hollow fiber type composite nano-filtration membrane comprises a hollow fiber microporous base membrane adopted as a supporting layer, a polysulfone transition layer, and a polyamide composite layer, wherein the polysulfone transition layer is positioned inside membrane holes of the hollow fiber microporous base membrane, and the polyamide composite layer is positioned inside membrane holes of the polysulfone transition layer. The preparation method comprises: adopting a thermally induced phase separation method to obtain an asymmetric microporous base membrane, adopting an impregnation phase transformation method to obtain the polysulfone transition layer in the micro holes, and adopting pressure control and an interface condensation polymerization reaction to obtain the polyamide composite layer. The hollow fiber type composite nano-filtration membrane provides a sodium chloride salt solution entrapment rate of more than 90%, a divalent salt ion entrapment rate of more than 95%, and a pollutant entrapment rate of more than 99% under 0.2-0.8 MPa, such that the hollow fiber type composite nano-filtration membrane has characteristics of high strength, washing resistance, large flux and the like, wherein the pollutants have a molecular weight of 300-200,000 Daltons.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a layer-by-layer self-assembled hollow fiber forward osmosis membrane. The preparation method comprises the steps of: preparing hollow fiber forward osmosis base film, modifying hollow fiber ultrafiltration base film, repeating layer-by-layer assembly of polycation and polyanion layers, performing interface cross-linking polymerization for preparinga selective functional layer, conducting moisturizing, and carrying out treatment and storage so as to prepare the layer-by-layer self-assembled hollow fiber forward osmosis membrane. The surface of the hollow fiber self-support base film which is prepared by using a phase conversion method is activated firstly, layer-by-layer assembly of polycation and polyanion is repeated on the surface of thefilm so as to form an functional polarization layer for an electrolyte solution, and the polyamide selective layer is prepared through interfacial chemical cross-linking polymerization. The prepared hollow fiber forward osmosis membrane has a controllable thickness and an internal polarization layer with a high charge capacity, and the internal concentration polarization phenomenon can be alleviated effectively during the forward osmosis process; therefore, the hollow fiber forward osmosis membrane can simultaneously obtain high flux and low reverse salt flux, has high filtration separation efficiency, easy cleaning and a long service life, and can be widely applied to seawater desalination and concentration and desalination of brine.

Disclosed is a permselective membrane module comprising i) two permselective membrane elements formed of hollow fibers arranged substantially in parallel and bundled together and ii) a container, the two elements being arranged in the container longitudinally of the hollow fibers, wherein the respective elements comprise i) a feed tube disposed longitudinally of the hollow fibers and ii) a hollow fiber bundle covering the outer surface of the feed tube, the feed tube having a number of holes therein, and the hollow fibers having one end closed and the other end opened, wherein the feed tubes of the two elements communicate with each other via a connecting tube to form a conduit having one end opened and the other end closed, and wherein the container comprises i) an inner wall surrounding the two elements with a space, ii) a feed port provided at one end of the container in communication with the opened end of the conduit, iii) a permeate-liquid outlet facing the open end of the hollow fiber bundle of each element and extending through the container wall, and iv) a non-permeated fluid discharge outlet communicating with the gap between the container and the outer surface of each element and extending through the container wall.

A hollow fiber has a hollow tube, a reflecting film formed on an inner wall of the hollow tube, and the reflecting film is a first metal film formed by baking a first metal nano particle solution including a first metal nano particle. The hollow fiber may have a transparent film on the first metal film. The transparent film is formed by baking or chemically reacting from a second metal nano particle included in a second metal nano particle solution.

The present invention relates to a preparation method for regularized static electricity spinning hollow fiber, and the method comprises the procedures that: firstly, high molecular compound is dissolved in good solvent to be made into uniform solution; secondly, poor solvent is added to be dispensed into spinning raw liquid, and the volume ratio of the good solvent and the poor solvent is 10/1 to 1/3; thirdly, the spinning raw liquid is added into a container, is controlled and extruded by a micro-syringe pump, a jet opening is connected with a high voltage positive pole, a grounding microelectrode with the removable area of 0 to 100 mm ² is taken as a negative pole, various parameters of static electricity spinning are adjusted, and the spinning raw liquid carries on the static electricity spinning; fourthly, the grounding microelectrode backwards and continuously moves, and a continuous regularized static electricity spinning hollow fiber bundle is obtained; fifthly, the continuous hollow fiber bundle obtains the regularized static electricity spinning hollow fiber through winding and collecting. The preparation method provided by the present invention is simple and feasible, and the obtained static electricity spinning hollow fiber has the potential application and the prospect in the fields such as nanowire devices, filtering materials, and composite reinforcing materials, etc.

The invention discloses a polypropylene hollow fiber microporous membrane and a preparation method thereof. The hollow fiber microporous membrane comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 15-45% of polypropylene, 50-80% of thinner and 0.1-5% of additive. The preparation method of the hollow fiber microporous membrane is realized on the basis of a thermotropic phase separation process. The preparation method of the polypropylene hollow fiber microporous membrane is simple and easy to industrialize, and has low requirements on equipment, the prepared hollow fiber microporous membrane has the advantages of high strength, uniform pore diameter distribution, high porosity and the like, the pore diameter of the hollow fiber microporous membrane can be controlled between 0.1 and 0.45mu m, and the porosity is 60-85%, so the hollow fiber microporous membrane has large water flux, is not easy to block in use, can be widely used for feeding water treatment, and is particularly suitable for the membrane bioreactor technology and other water treatment fields.

Disclosed herein are a polyimide dope solution composition, a method for preparing a hollow fiber using the composition and a hollow fiber prepared by the method. More specifically, disclosed are a method for preparing a hollow fiber, comprising preparing a polyimide dope solution composition comprising polyhydroxyimide, polythiolimide or polyaminoimide, spinning the composition to prepare a hollow fiber, and thermally rearranging the hollow fiber, and the hollow fiber prepared by the method.

In accordance with the method, a hollow fiber made of a high free volume polymer membrane can be prepared by spinning the dope solution composition to prepare a hollow fiber and thermally rearranging the hollow fiber via thermal treatment. The hollow fiber thus prepared exhibits excellent gas permeability and selectivity, thus being suitable for use as a gas separation membrane.

A device for removing substances from blood or other body fluids, comprising a bundle of semi-permeable hollow fibers, the ends of which are embedded and held in a pottant, and a tubular casing surrounding the hollow fiber bundle. At the ends of the casing, inlet and outlet pipes are connected with partitioned fluid chambers formed in the casing. Different aspects are provided to improve the flow properties, for increasing the filtering efficiency, such as varying packing density along the length of the fiber bundle, a distributor disc within a cap, apertures on the circumference of the pottant and an ordered structure of the rippling of the hollow fibers.

PCT No. PCT/JP96/03677 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 18, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 18, 1998 PCT Filed Dec. 17, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/22405 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 26, 1997A hollow fiber filter membrane where the inner surface comprises a three-dimensional network structure having thick trunks of 10-30 mu m in maximum diameter and the average pore diameter of a minimum pore diameter layer of the membrane is 0.01 mu m or more and less than 1 mu m.

The present invention provides a filtration assembly in the form of a disposable cartridge. A key feature of the invention is a filtration chamber having a porous membrane also referred to as a filter, a sample inlet to the filtration chamber, and an outlet for outflow of the fraction of sample that does not penetrate the membrane. The membrane can be used in any configuration, for example a hollow fiber. The fraction of sample that penetrates the membrane is referred to as the filtrate, and the fraction that does not penetrate the membrane is referred to as the retentate or concentrate. Some uses of the cartridge are to prepare plasma from blood, and to prepare a plasma ultra-filtrate from plasma, without the need for centrifugation. Many therapeutic drugs are highly protein bound, and a plasma ultra-filtrate is sometimes required to measure the unbound biologically active drugs.

A gas separation membrane module has a vessel housing a hollow fiber element including a hollow fiber bundle consisting of a number of hollow fiber membranes (1) and a tube sheet (2) holding one end of the hollow fiber bundle. The interior of the vessel is partitioned by the tube sheet (2) into two spaces consisting of a raw gas chamber and a permeate gas chamber. A high-pressure mixed gas is fed into the raw gas chamber where gas separation is carried out. The gas separation membrane module has a configuration where during operation, the tube sheet (2) is supported by means of a perforated plate (8) in the vessel by a pressure from the mixed gas fed to maintain airtightness between the two spaces and when the tube sheet (2) receives a pressure in the reverse direction to that applied during the operation of the gas separation membrane module, the tube sheet (2) is forced to move within the vessel by the pressure in the reverse direction, thereby losing airtightness between the two spaces.

The invention discloses a high-throughput hollow fiber composite nanofiltration membrane. The high-throughput hollow fiber composite nanofiltration membrane is composed of a supporting layer and a separating layer; the supporting layer is prepared from a higher molecular hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane; the separating layer is a polyamide layer obtained via interfacial polymerization of multi-amines and multi-acyl chlorides; pure water flux of the high-throughput hollow fiber composite nanofiltration membrane is high, and removing rates of the high-throughput hollow fiber composite nanofiltration membrane on NaCl in NaCl aqueous solution, and MgSO4 in MgSO4 aqueous solution are both high. A preparation method of the high-throughput hollow fiber composite nanofiltration membrane comprises following steps: nonsolvent induced phase separation method is adopted so prepare a high molecular hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane; the high molecular hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane is immersed into a multi-amine aqueous solution containing an acid-binding agent so as to obtain a nanofiltration memebrane precursor; the nanofiltration memebrane precursor is contacted with an organic solution of multi-acyl chlorides so as to form the polyamide separation layer and obtain hollow fiber composite nanofiltration membrane wires; and at last an oxidizing agent is used for oxidation treatment, and curing treatment is carried out so as to obtain a finished product. The high-throughput hollow fiber composite nanofiltration membrane is high in water flux, low in cost, and excellent in performance, and is convenient to prepare.

A membrane supported bioreactor arrangement and method for anerobic conversion of gas into liquid products including membrane modules having hollow fibers, each of the hollow fibers formed from an asymmetric membrane wall having a porous outer layer defining biopores for retaining a porous biolayer about the outer surface of the membrane wall and a less permeable hydration layer around the hollow fiber lumen; a membrane vessel for retaining the membrane modules in a process gas for formation of the biolayer on the outer surface of the hollow fiber wall by interaction of microorganisms with a process gas and for the production of a liquid product, wherein the membrane vessel retains the membrane modules in a common horizontal plane; provides a seal between contents of the membrane tank and ambient atmosphere; and includes a liquid supply conduit for communicating the process liquid with the hollow fiber lumens of the hollow fibers.

Disclosed is a method for making pH sensitive PVDF hollow fiber intelligent film and products made thereby, wherein the making process comprises the steps of, (1) steeping the film in pure water for 24 hours, (2) preparing 10-20% alkali solution, and charging 3-4gl/L of tetrabutylammonium bromide, charging immersed film in alkali solution, heating by water bath, (3) preparing 1-2 mol/L of AAC solution, charging dimethyl formamide solution by 40-50ml/L, mixing uniformly, charging alkali-treated film in the mixed solution, steeping 10-20 minutes at room temperature, preparing solution of crosslinking agent 0.01-0.09mol/L and K2S2O3 0.1-0.3g, charging the readily made film into the solution, filling N2 and sealing, water-bathing, heating and washing with deionized water, the crosslinking agent is MBAA or diacrylic acid ethylene glycol ester.