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Membranes, Volume 9, Issue 12

2019 December - 17 articles

Cover Story: Measles virus (MV) has gained broad interest due to its effectiveness in treating late-stage cancer. For cancer therapy, at least 108 infectious MV particles per dose with a defined purity are needed. A typical unit operation to concentrate viruses is tangential flow filtration (TFF). In this study, we successfully concentrated MV by TFF and determined the effect of cell culture media and membrane properties (cut-offs and materials). We conducted a fouling analysis and found correlations among membrane fouling, virus recovery, and impurity depletion. View this paper
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Articles (17)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,808 Views
14 Pages

Research on Operation Efficiency and Membrane Fouling of A2/O-MBR in Reclaimed Water Treatment

  • Fenfen Li,
  • Xinyue An,
  • Cuimin Feng,
  • Jianwei Kang,
  • Junling Wang and
  • Hongying Yu

17 December 2019

Taking the public building domestic wastewater as an example, the combination of the MBR (membrane bioreactor) process and the traditional A2/O (anaerobic-anoxic-oxic) process was established and analyzed in terms of the removal effect of the polluta...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,826 Views
20 Pages

Concentration Dependencies of Diffusion Permeability of Anion-Exchange Membranes in Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate, Monosodium Phosphate, and Potassium Hydrogen Tartrate Solutions

  • Natalia Pismenskaya,
  • Veronika Sarapulova,
  • Ekaterina Nevakshenova,
  • Natalia Kononenko,
  • Maria Fomenko and
  • Victor Nikonenko

10 December 2019

The concentration dependencies of diffusion permeability of homogeneous (AMX-Sb and AX) and heterogeneous (MA-41 and FTAM-EDI) anion-exchange membranes (AEMs) is obtained in solutions of ampholytes (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO3; monosodium phosphate, N...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,143 Views
15 Pages

Neutralization Dialysis for Phenylalanine and Mineral Salt Separation. Simple Theory and Experiment

  • Anton Kozmai,
  • Elena Goleva,
  • Vera Vasil’eva,
  • Victor Nikonenko and
  • Natalia Pismenskaya

10 December 2019

A simple non-steady state mathematical model is proposed for the process of purification of an amino acid solution from mineral salts by the method of neutralization dialysis (ND), carried out in a circulating hydrodynamic mode. The model takes into...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,066 Views
14 Pages

Oil Deposition on Polymer Brush-Coated NF Membranes

  • Anh Vu,
  • Naama Segev Mark,
  • Guy Z. Ramon,
  • Xianghong Qian,
  • Arijit Sengupta and
  • S. Ranil Wickramasinghe

6 December 2019

Membrane-based processes are attractive for treating oily wastewaters. However, membrane fouling due to the deposition of oil droplets on the membrane surface compromises performance. Here, real-time observation of the deposition of oil droplets by d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,472 Views
13 Pages

A Study of Ralex Membrane Morphology by SEM

  • Elmara M. Akberova,
  • Vera I. Vasil’eva,
  • Victor I. Zabolotsky and
  • Lubos Novak

6 December 2019

A comparative analysis of the effect of the manufacturing technology of heterogeneousion-exchange membranes Ralex CM Pes manufactured by MEGA a.s. (Czech Republic) on the structural properties of their surface and cross section by SEM was carried out...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,767 Views
17 Pages

Microalgae in Food-Energy-Water Nexus: A Review on Progress of Forward Osmosis Applications

  • Yusuf Wibisono,
  • Wahyunanto Agung Nugroho,
  • Luhur Akbar Devianto,
  • Akhmad Adi Sulianto and
  • Muhammad Roil Bilad

5 December 2019

Nowadays the world is facing vulnerability problems related to food, energy and water demands. The challenges in those subsystems are intertwined and thus require inter-discipline approaches to address them. Bioresources offer promising solutions of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,386 Views
7 Pages

5 December 2019

The effect of carbonic anhydrase (CA) on the separation performance of thin poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimer/poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hybrid membranes was investigated. CA, a type of enzyme, was used to promote CO2 hydration and dehydration reac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,002 Views
13 Pages

4 December 2019

We performed molecular dynamics simulations of water molecules inside a hydrophobic membrane composed of stacked graphene sheets. By decreasing the density of water molecules inside the membrane, we observed that water molecules form a droplet throug...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,662 Views
28 Pages

Ionizing Radiation for Preparation and Functionalization of Membranes and Their Biomedical and Environmental Applications

  • Maria Helena Casimiro,
  • Luis Mota Ferreira,
  • João Paulo Leal,
  • Claudia Cristina Lage Pereira and
  • Bernardo Monteiro

3 December 2019

The use of ionizing radiation processing technologies has proven to be one of the most versatile ways to prepare a wide range of membranes with specific tailored functionalities, thus enabling them to be used in a variety of industrial, environmental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,092 Views
16 Pages

Synthesis of Imidazolium based PILs and Investigation of Their Blend Membranes for Gas Separation

  • Thanasis Chouliaras,
  • Aristofanis Vollas,
  • Theophilos Ioannides,
  • Valadoula Deimede and
  • Joannis Kallitsis

3 December 2019

Polymeric (ionic liquid) (PIL) copolymers bearing cationic imidazolium pendants and polar acrylic acid groups (P(VBCImY-co-AAx)), which both favor the interaction with CO2 molecules, have been synthesized and blended with film forming, high glass tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,545 Views
19 Pages

2 December 2019

We investigated the impact of conditioning compositions on the way bacteria move and adhere to reverse osmosis (RO) membranes that have been pre-conditioned by organic compounds. We used humic acid (HA), bovine serum albumin (BSA), and sodium alginat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
10,246 Views
22 Pages

29 November 2019

The therapeutic use of oncolytic measles virus (MV) for cancer treatment requires >108 infectious MV particles per dose in a highly pure form. The concentration/purification of viruses is typically achieved by tangential flow filtration (TFF) but...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
9,125 Views
22 Pages

Reference Electrodes with Polymer-Based Membranes—Comprehensive Performance Characteristics

  • Peter Lingenfelter,
  • Bartosz Bartoszewicz,
  • Jan Migdalski,
  • Tomasz Sokalski,
  • Mirosław M. Bućko,
  • Robert Filipek and
  • Andrzej Lewenstam

29 November 2019

Several types of liquid membrane and solid-state reference electrodes based on different plastics were fabricated. In the membranes studied, equitransferent organic (QB) and inorganic salts (KCl) are dispersed in polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyurethan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,758 Views
15 Pages

Membrane Adsorber for the Fast Purification of a Monoclonal Antibody Using Protein A Chromatography

  • Chantal Brämer,
  • Lisa Tünnermann,
  • Alina Gonzalez Salcedo,
  • Oscar-Werner Reif,
  • Dörte Solle,
  • Thomas Scheper and
  • Sascha Beutel

27 November 2019

Monoclonal antibodies are conquering the biopharmaceutical market because they can be used to treat a variety of diseases. Therefore, it is very important to establish robust and optimized processes for their production. In this article, the first st...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,902 Views
37 Pages

A Bibliometric Survey of Paraffin/Olefin Separation Using Membranes

  • Débora Micheline Vaz de Miranda,
  • Luciana da Silva Dutra,
  • Débora Way,
  • Nicolis Amaral,
  • Frederico Wegenast,
  • Maria Clara Scaldaferri,
  • Normando Jesus and
  • José Carlos Pinto

26 November 2019

Bibliometric studies allow to collect, organize and process information that can be used to guide the development of research and innovation and to provide basis for decision-making. Paraffin/olefin separations constitute an important industrial issu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,091 Views
16 Pages

Concentration of 1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone in Aqueous Solutions by Sweeping Gas Membrane Distillation: From Bench to Industrial Scale

  • Ricardo Abejón,
  • Hafedh Saidani,
  • André Deratani,
  • Christophe Richard and
  • José Sánchez-Marcano

26 November 2019

Sweeping gas membrane distillation (SGMD) is a useful option for dehydration of aqueous solvent solutions. This study investigated the technical viability and competitiveness of the use of SGMD to concentrate aqueous solutions of 1,3-dimethyl-2-imida...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,242 Views
14 Pages

ZnO Microfiltration Membranes for Desalination by a Vacuum Flow-Through Evaporation Method

  • Shailesh Dangwal,
  • Ruochen Liu,
  • Lyndon D. Bastatas,
  • Elena Echeverria,
  • Chengqian Huang,
  • Yu Mao,
  • David N. Mcllroy,
  • Sangil Han and
  • Seok-Jhin Kim

23 November 2019

ZnO was deposited on macroporous α-alumina membranes via atomic layer deposition (ALD) to improve water flux by increasing their hydrophilicity and reducing mass transfer resistance through membrane pore channels. The deposition of ZnO was systemical...

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