Celgard Inc.

Hoechst Celanese Corporation

Charles J Runkle

Ravi Prasad

Harry F Shuey

Amitava Sengupta

Martin J Weinstein

Linus I Holstein

J Clift Delozier

Xiaoyan Huang

Kwantai Cho

Tony R Vido

James J Lowery

Anthony W Mancusi, Iii

C William Fulk, Jr

Robert H Carroll

William K Jackson

Paul A Peterson

Clifton James Delozier

Frederick E Wiesler

Jonathan P Bennett

R Allen Pittman

Richard A Sodaro

The present invention is directed to a contactor for degrassing a liquid. The contractor includes a perforated core and a microporous membrane fabric wrapped around the core. The fabric includes a polymethyl pentene hollow fiber as a weft fiber and a warp yarn. A tube sheet secures the ends of the wound fiber and a shell encases the tube sheet and fabric. The shell has at least one opening to permit fluid flow through the shell and an end cap. In a further embodiment the invention is directed to a contactor for degrassing a liquid wherein the contactor is adapted to withstand pressures greater than 0.4 MPa and temperatures greater than 50&deg; C.

Hollow fiber membrane contactor

The present invention is directed to a thermoplastic, unibody transfer device. This transfer device includes a membrane, and a housing surrounding the membrane. The housing includes a thermoplastic end cap and a thermoplastic shell. The end cap and shell are butt welded together. Additionally, there is a method of manufacturing with the aforementioned device. The method includes forming a bundle of a membrane, inserting the bundle into a shell, butt welding an end cap to the bundle and the shell so that the cap, bundle, and shell are fused together.

Thermoplastic, unibody transfer device

A shell-less fluid contactor and a process for transferring a fluid component between a shell-side fluid and a lumen-side fluid. The shell-side fluid is introduced through a fluid distribution tube and discharged from the tube into contact with a surrounding bundle of microporous hollow fiber membranes. A fluid component is transferred by diffusion, through the walls of the hollow fiber membranes, from the shell-side fluid to the lumen-side fluid. Multiple contactors can be combined into an assembly for multi-stage processing of fluids.

Shell-less hollow fiber membrane fluid contactor

The present invention is directed to a contactor having a microporous membrane and a shell surrounding the membrane. A shell has a fluoropolymer inner surface and a composite structural body. The fluoropolymer inner surface is integrated into the composite structural body.

Fiber-reinforced, composite body contactors

A contactor for degassing liquids includes a perforated core, a plurality of microporous hollow fibers, and a shell. The fibers surround the core and have two ends. A tube sheet affixes the ends of the fibers. A baffle is located between the tube sheets. The hollow fibers are closed at the baffle. The shell encloses the fibers, tube sheets, and the baffle. The system for degassing liquids includes a source of liquid containing a gas, a source of vacuum, and the contactor.

Contactor for degassing liquids

This invention provides spiral-wound hollow fiber membrane fabric-containing cartridges and modules for separations and other phase contact applications, in which the cartridges contain baffles that induce radial feed fluid flow in the shell side of the hollow fiber membrane bundle; and methods for fabricating such cartridges.

Spiral-wound hollow fiber membrane fabric cartridges and modules having

This invention provides spiral-wound hollow fiber membrane fabric-containing cartridges and modules for separations and other phase contact applications, including tube sheets having improved solvent resistance and mechanical durability which are fabricated by extrusion of thermoplastic resins having particular defined characteristics, and methods for making the same.

Hollow fiber membrane fabric - containing cartridges and modules having

Method of making spiral-wound hollow fiber membrane fabric cartridges

This invention provides spiral-wound hollow fiber membrane fabric-containing cartridges and modules for separations and other phase contact applications, in which the cartridges contain a turbulence-promoting fibrous web which is substantially-co-extensive to the fabric-like array, that induces turbulent fluid flow in the shell side of the hollow fiber membrane bundle; and methods for fabricating such cartridges.

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Charlotte, NC, United States of America

Charles J Runkle