The world of membranes has fundamentally changed in the last five years. It started in 2015 with the acquisition by GE of IMT, the specialist Dutch manufacturer of a seven-bore PES fibre similar to inge. This acquisition represented the first […]

Is the membrane water market becoming more litigious? There seem to be more court cases in the last few years, so this would suggest that it is. However, this trend masks another change. The first application to explode on to […]

I remember being told by a BP membrane researcher in 1990 that membrane flux needed to be very low to minimise fouling. In fact, impractically low. To avoid particle fouling mechanisms, the trans-membrane pressure needed to be less than 0.05 […]

I have been involved in membranes since starting work in 1981 at BP Research. For the first few years, membrane filtration made no impact in water treatment. However, the efforts of Memcor, Aquasource, and Xflow meant that by the end […]

Since the advent of Covid 19, we all know it’s a good idea to wash our hands. In 1840, a Hungarian medic called Semmelweis noticed that mortality rates on two seemingly identical maternity wards were three times higher for the […]