Composite asymmetrical membranes
AssigneeForschungsinstitute Bergof GmbH
InventorHeinrich Strathmann
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Abstract
Novel composite asymmetrical membranes, comprising a support membrane and a filtration membrane, and process for making the same. The novel membranes are formed by making a sequence of two-stage membranes, one formed upon the other. The process makes possible the formation of both a support membrane and filtration membrane from the same material rather than, as was necessary in the prior art, formation of a filtration membrane only from a different polymer soluble in solvent media which would have no substantial effect on the support membrane.
Claims4
Process for the manufacture of composite asymmetrical membranes in the form of film, hollow fibre or tube membranes from polymers, by applying a thin film as filtration membrane onto a porous supporting membrane, characterized in that the supporting membrane and the filtration membrane of the composite asymmetrical membrane are prepared from the same polymer material and in such a way that from a solution of the first stage of a two-stage polymer, there is prepared an integral-asymmetrical porous supporting membrane which is then converted into the insoluble second stage of the two-stage polymer by means of a thermal or chemical cyclisation reaction, whereupon a solution of the first stage of the two-stage polymer is applied onto the surface of the supporting membrane thus formed, and the solvent is then evaporated, the filtration membrane being thus formed by conversion of the polymer into the insoluble second stage.
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