Ceramem Corporation

Veolia Water Technologies, Inc.

Richard J Higgins

Robert L Goldsmith

Bruce A Bishop

David E Gamache

Peter J Hayward

Stanton R Smith

A method for cleaning a ceramic membrane used in an oil recovery process. The cleaning method includes online and offline modes. In the online mode, the method includes periodically backflushing the ceramic membrane with an aqueous media. In the offline mode, the method includes backpulsing or statically cleaning the ceramic membrane by utilizing an aqueous alkaline media, an aqueous acidic media, and a liquid hydrocarbon solution.

Process for recovering oil and treating resulting produced water with ceramic membranes

A porous ceramic support for a gas separation membrane formed by sintering a green body containing grains of a refractory ceramic oxide with a high coefficient of thermal expansion and grains of a reactive binder precursor. Upon sintering, the reactive binder precursor reacts with at least one gaseous, liquid or solid reactant to create a reaction bond that binds the refractory ceramic oxide grains. The support configuration can be a tubular, flat plate, hollow fiber, or multiple-passageway monolith structure.

High CTE reaction-bonded ceramic membrane supports

A process and system for the production of inorganic nanoparticles by precipitating the inorganic nanoparticles by a precipitating agent from a microemulsion with a continuous and a non-continuous phase; and concentrating the precipitated nanoparticles employing an ultrafiltration membrane.

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Richard J Higgins