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US 10,933,377 B2Granted
Apparatus and apparatus assembly
AssigneeAquafortus Technologies Limited
InventorsDaryl Joseph Briggs, Samrith Kim
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and an apparatus assembly for assessing the suitability of a membrane, such as an osmotic membrane in an osmotic process. Furthermore, the apparatus, and apparatus assembly provide the means to optimise the parameters of an osmotic process, including the ability to gather key data for different membrane based osmotic systems to enable osmotic process and system optimisation.
Claims16
A cell suitable for use in membrane assessment, the apparatus comprising:
- a) a housing that provides a base supporting an adjustable piston system,
- b) a membrane support surface, wherein the piston system, in use being able to adjust the height of the membrane support surface relative to the base plate of the housing,
- c) a membrane being locatable on the membrane support surface, and
- d) a constant temperature anemometer being located on the membrane support surface, which in use measures the cross-flow velocity of a fluid flowing on one side of the membrane, and
- e) one or more laminar input flow channels that in use direct a fluid across one side of the membrane and
- f) one or more laminar output flow channels that in use collect the fluid that has passed across the membrane.
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