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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2006
Applicant:
Peter Holme Jensen, Copenhagen Ø, DK;
Inventor:
Peter Holme Jensen, Copenhagen Ø, DK;
Assignee:
Aquaporin A/S, Copenhagen, DK;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 65/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides methods for producing salinity power using pressure retarded osmosis and a biometric membrane (e.g., a liquid bilayer membrane or a lipid membrane containing multiple bilayers of fused deposited lipid vesicles) containing aquaporin water channels. The invention also provides power plants for producing salinity energy using pressure retarded osmosis and a biometric water membrane containing functional aquaporin channels.