SBIR/STTR Research Award
Fouling-Resistant Ceramic Membranes for Treatment of Metastable Oil/Water Emulsions
Award amount
$220,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1995Award details
- Awarding agency
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Ceramem Corporation
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
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Research abstract
Billions of gallons of oily wastewaters are generated daily by a variety of industrial sources. A large fraction of these are oil/water emulsions for which current treatment technologies are often costly and ineffective. Although such emulsions can be separated using crossflow filtration technology, conventional crossflow membranes typically are uneconomic for performing such treatment due to strong membrane fouling resulting from interaction of emulsion constituents with membrane materials.
Technology keywords
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