Apparatus with supported tubular membranes for the treatment of fluids
AssigneeRhone-Poulenc Industries
InventorsClaude Bardonnet, Robert Brun, Michel Pages
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Abstract
Apparatus of all types for the separation of fluids which comprise at least one semi-permeable tubular membrane mounted on a porous support, the membrane being kept out of contact with adjacent parts of the apparatus by at least one thread-like element wound spirally around the membrane.
Claims8
In an apparatus for the treatment of fluids which consists essentially of a plurality of flexible tubular porous supports on the outer surface of which is a semi-permeable membrane the improvement wherein membranes on adjacent supports are kept out of contact with each other solely by separation means consisting essentially of one or more thread-like elements wound spirally around and on the membrane.
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