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December 12, 2016Our skid mounted membrane filtration systems are specifically designed to bring a new level of ease to bench scale testing of membrane filters and small batch processing. The goal for developing this product was to help our customer do what they do best – research and develop – and minimize time plumbing, wiring and waiting! We are also aiming to ship each skid mounted system within 2 weeks of purchase date.
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December 07, 2016Sterlitech Corporation is proud to announce the launch of gold-sputtered polycarbonate membrane filters. “Why gold? What is sputtered?” you may ask. Well, some particles are just too small to see with an ordinary light microscope, for these things we need get down to details not seen by traditional microscopy.
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October 26, 2016
PTFE Unlaminated 20 micron membranes are being discontinued by the manufacturer. We will be sure to update our web page and newsletter when/if more become available. Updated: 10/26/2016
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October 12, 2016
Parasites have met their match. Sterlitech, an industry leader in unique micro and sub-micron filtration products, announced today that its Kato-Katz Technique Diagnostic Kit is now available for immediate use in the field. The kit was developed in response to the unanimous difficulty among research groups, control programs, and health organizations to source a fecal-sample-based test kit. This kit enables field scientists to identify the presence of eggs from parasitic Soil-Transmitted Helminth (STH) worms in infected patients.
This is the first time that the kit has been made available from a source in the United States. Until now, research groups and health organizations alike had to rely on a limited availability of kits. Schistosome infections continue to be common where poverty prevails and hygiene behavior, water supply, and sanitation are often deficient. The worms live in the intestine of infected people and can cause a range of gastrointestinal and reproductive complications,
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July 12, 2016
Sterlitech teamed up with Senior Engineering Students at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) to evaluate the design of a tangential flow Air Gap Membrane Distillation (AGMD) test cell. Membrane Distillation (MD) is a thermally driven membrane separation technique used for desalination. In this process, the driving force is the difference in the vapor pressure on both sides of the membrane, where permeate travels through a hydrophobic membrane in a vapor phase. Advantages of MD process over conventional distillation or pressure driven separation processes are:
- Low Operating Pressures
- Low Operating Temperatures
- Less Susceptibility to Fouling
These all translate to lower energy requirements that make MD an energy efficient separation process. Scope of the Project: A bench-scale tangential flow test cell is configured in this project where feed solution is circulated tangentially to the membrane in the feed channel on one side and the coolant solution is circulated
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June 08, 2016
North American Membrane Society (NAMS) annual meeting was held in Bellevue, WA, during the last week of May. Due to the great collective interest shown by the membrane research community, only 40% of the abstracts submitted to the meeting could be accepted for podium presentation, which made up to about 140 talks! In addition, about 140 posters were presented in 5 parallel poster sessions. As a comparison, there were about 144 talks and 160 posters in NAMS 2015 meeting at Boston. Conference attendees were primarily researchers from industry and academia. Research was focused on the following topics:
- Membrane Distillation (MD)
- Biomimetic membranes
- Desalination and potable water production
- Gas separation
- Design and processing of polymeric and inorganic membranes
- Designs and processing of composite and hybrid membranes
- Novel membrane materials
Other topics of interest included:
- Pervaporation
- Membrane transport: theory and characterization tools
- Water treatment, reclamation, and reuse
- Energy
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May 20, 2016
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May 09, 2016
Filtering difficult biological solutions? Normally, using a thin membrane filter can pose serious questions:
- “How much liquid can I get through the filter?”
- “When will it clog?”
- “What if my solution is very critical to the project?"
Sterlitech Polyethersulfone (PES) membrane filters have a unique asymmetric pore structure that allows the user to take advantage of this feature; PES can be its own pre-filter and dynamically increase throughput!
Hold a sample piece of this material up to the light at an oblique angle, and you will see a glossy/shiny side, and a more matte/dull side. This sided-ness feature (see Figure 1) is helpful in that the more open area (matte side) has larger entry pores compared to the glossy side; and it should face into the incoming liquid stream for the best results with particulate-heavy liquids. If you were to view an SEM image of the matte side, you may quickly notice the pores seem much larger than the stated pore size, this is normal! Each pore’s ability to
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October 16, 2015Sterlitech was awarded as one of the Puget Sounds 100 fastest growing private companies in 2015!
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October 16, 2015
Inc. Magazine ranked Sterlitech Corporation on its 34th annual Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent entrepreneurs. Companies such as Yelp, Pandora, Timberland, Dell, Domino’s Pizza, LinkedIn, Zillow, and many other well-known names gained early exposure as members of the Inc. 5000.
