Message-ID: <960109095309_110924588@mail02.mail.aol.com> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 09:53:11 -0500 From: Mike Mychajlonka <mailto:StrutInst@AOL.COM> Subject: Novel Membrane Materials and Operations To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
DATE: January 9, 1996
TO: Members of the DEVEL-L Listserv
FROM: Mike Mychajlonka, Ph. D.
Executive Director
Struten Institute (mailto:strutinst@aol.com)
P. O. Box 162
Saline, MI 48176-0162
RE: Semipermeable Diamond Membrane and Electrically Coupled Molecular
Scrubbing Device.
The Struten Institute is a bona fide, nonprofit organization based in the
U.S. and recognized under U.S. law [I.R.S. Code 501(c)(3)]. The purpose of
this organization is to bring technically-trained individuals from the
newly-independent (Former Soviet republic of) Ukraine in contact with
American and other Western companies. This business level, technical contact
mediated through the Struten Institute is a dividend some businesses will
realize from the fall of communism.
Ukraine has recently produced two very interesting technologies that may have
significant application in a variety of areas including environmental such as
remediation of industrial waste waters as well as for the recycling of used
oil or for composite wastes such as grinding swarf and certain sludges.
Other applications include biotechnology, chemical engineering and indeed
many areas currently using microporous membrane filtration. In addition, one
of these technologies - a diamond "membrane," may conceivably have its pores
filled with either a conductive or a semiconductive material resulting in
electronic components essentially impervious to abrasion and vibration and
highly resistant to heat.
A Ukrainian research institute has developed methods to produce a
semi-permeable membrane made of synthetic diamond. This material may be
emplaced upon a variety of substrates, including ceramics. These methods
permit the making of a semipermeable membrane that simultaneously shows high
resistance to heat, abrasion and pressure.
In an independent but highly relevant development, another Ukrainian
institute has perfected a method for "scrubbing" the surface of semipermeable
membranes. From a physical chemistry standpoint, it is now possible to
continually and economically stir-up the so-called "unstirred layer." This
method has so far been applied to polymeric membranes where it has made
possible reasonable rates of reverse osmosis at pressures as low as two to
five atmospheres.
Corporate members of the Struten Institute enjoy access to these and other
technology-transfer opportunities. They clearly understand the enormous
difference between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. They may also utilize
the Struten Institute as their connection to very economical R&D partners and
a newly-emerging market of 52 million people.
For further information, please Email or write to the address given above.
Happy New Year!
Mike Mychajlonka