A radiation curable composition for preparing a polymeric membrane includes a) a membrane polymer selected from the group consisting of a polysulfone (PSU), a polyether sulfone (PES), a polyether etherketone (PEEK), a polyvinylchloride (PVC), a polyacrylonitrile (PAN), a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), a polyimide (PI), a polyamide (PA) and copolymers thereof; b) a hydrophobic monomer or oligomer having at least two free radical polymerizable groups independently selected from the group consisting of an acrylate group, a methacrylate group, an acrylamide group, a methacrylamide group, a styrene group, a vinyl ether group, a vinyl ester group, a maleate group, a fumarate group, an itaconate group, and a maleimide group; and c) an organic solvent for the membrane polymer and the hydrophobic monomer. A polymeric membrane and a method for manufacturing the membrane are also disclosed.

The present invention provides a composite separation membrane having a separation layer formed of SPAE on the surface of a porous support membrane wherein the porous support membrane and a coat of SPAE are firmly adhered with each other so that separation property and water permeation property continue for a long period. The present invention is a composite separation membrane having a separation layer on the surface of a porous support membrane, characterized in that said porous support membrane contains 50% by mass or more of polyphenylene ether, and that said separation layer is formed of a sulfonated polyarylene ether copolymer constituted from a repeating structure of a specific hydrophobic segment and a specific hydrophilic segment. The composite separation membrane of the present invention is suitable as a liquid treating membrane such as a nanofiltration membrane and a reverse osmosis membrane.

The present invention relates to an acid-resistant nanomembrane with an improved flow rate and a method of producing the acid-resistant nanomembrane, and more particularly, to an acid-resistant nanomembrane with an improved flow rate, which can also be used under strong-acid and high-temperature conditions for the recovery of rare metals, valuable metals, and the like generated in a smelting process and which exhibits both excellent flow rate and excellent acid resistance, and a method of producing the acid-resistant nanomembrane.

A forward osmosis membrane characterized in that a thin membrane layer having the performance of a semi-permeable membrane is laminated on a polyketone support layer.

Provided is a linear compressor. The linear compressor includes a cylinder disposed in a shell to define a compression space for a refrigerant, a piston installed to reciprocate in the cylinder, a motor assembly that allows the piston to move in an axial direction of the cylinder and thereby to compress the refrigerant introduced into the compression space, a nozzle which is provided in the cylinder and through which a portion of the refrigerant introduced into the compression space passes, and a cylinder filter installed in the cylinder and disposed at an inlet-side of the nozzle. At least one or more surfaces of the cylinder filter are oil-repellent coated.

Polymer membranes include a polymer material that is selectively permeable to acidic gases over methane in a gas stream, such as natural gas. The polymer material may be a polymer membrane comprising a fluorinated polytriazole polymer. The fluorinated polytriazole polymer may further comprise a substituted phenyl or a substituted benzenaminyl. The substituted phenyl or substituted benzenaminyl may be substituted with hydrogen, bromo, fluoro, chloro, iodo, hydroxy, methyl, trifluoromethyl, dimethylamino, tert-butyl, or difluoromethoxy groups. The polymer material may have a degree of polymerization of from 100 to 175. The polymer membranes may be incorporated into systems or methods for removing separable gases, such as acidic gases, from gas streams, such as natural gas.

The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a method for purifying a liquid using a porous polyimide and/or polyamideimide membrane having excellent impurities (e.g., metals) removal performance which is preferably compatible with a flow rate, and also having an excellent stress, an excellent breaking elongation and the like; a method for producing a chemical solution or a cleaning solution employing the purification method; a filter medium comprising the porous membrane; and a filter device equipped with the porous membrane. A method for purifying a liquid, comprising causing a portion or the whole of the liquid to pass through a porous polyimide and/or polyamideimide membrane having communicated pores from one side of the membrane to the other side of the membrane by the action of a differential pressure between the two sides.

Disclosed are a copolymer, porous membranes made from the copolymer, and a method of treating fluids to remove metal ions using the porous membranes, for example, from fluids originating in the microelectronics industry, wherein the copolymer includes monomeric units I and II, wherein monomeric unit I is of the formula A-XCH.sub.2B, wherein A is Rf(CH.sub.2)n, Rf is a perfluoro alkyl group of the formula CF.sub.3(CF.sub.2).sub.x, wherein x is 3-12, n is 1-6, X is O or S, and B is vinylphenyl, and monomeric unit II is vinylpyridine.

Polyethers (A), whose main chain essentially consists of repeating units of the formulae (1) and (2) in alternating order, are useful as an additive to a porous polymer membrane, or as the main polymer constituent of a porous polymer membrane, for stabilizing said membrane against detrimental effects of oxidizing agents and/or for improving the stability of a filtration module comprising said membrane against detrimental effects of oxidizing agents. ##STR00001##

Membranes, methods of making the membranes, and methods of using the membranes are described. The membranes can comprise a support layer, and a selective polymer layer disposed on the support layer. The selective polymer layer can comprise an oxidatively stable carrier dispersed within a hydrophilic polymer matrix. The oxidatively stable carrier can be chosen from a quaternary ammonium hydroxide carrier (e.g., a mobile carrier such as a small molecule quaternary ammonium hydroxide, or a fixed carrier such as a quaternary ammonium hydroxide-containing polymer), a quaternary ammonium fluoride carrier (e.g., a mobile carrier such as a small molecule quaternary ammonium fluoride, or a fixed carrier such as a quaternary ammonium fluoride-containing polymer), and combinations thereof. The membranes can exhibit selective permeability to gases. The membranes can selectively remove carbon dioxide and/or hydrogen sulfide from hydrogen and/or nitrogen. Further, the membranes can exhibit oxidative stability at temperatures above 100 C.