A water processing device is provided for removing micro-pollutants, in particular medicaments, from water, the device comprising at least one housing and at least one adsorption unit which is arranged in the housing and which at least partially adsorbs the micro-pollutants in at least one operating state and which comprises at least one non-specific adsorption element, wherein the at least one adsorption unit comprises at least one specific adsorption element.

A hollow fiber membrane module 100 includes: a plurality of hollow fiber membranes 10; a container 20 storing the plurality of hollow fiber membranes 10; and a feed water inlet 201 provided at one end portion of the container 20 such that a direction in which feed water flows into the container 20 is parallel to a longitudinal direction of the plurality of hollow fiber membranes 10. A permeation flux of the hollow fiber membranes 10 at a transmembrane pressure difference of 0.1 MPa is higher than or equal to 850 liter/m.sup.2/h.

Disclosed is an oxygen generator with improved noise and vibration reduction, compactness, and user convenience. The oxygen generator includes a gas separation membrane module including: gas separation membranes formed of a bundle of hollow fiber membranes; an atmospheric air inlet, to one end of which one end of the gas separation membranes is bonded, sealed, and attached, and the other end of which air in the atmosphere enters; a nitrogen outlet, to one end of which the other end of the gas separation membranes is bonded, sealed, and attached, and the other end of which nitrogen exits; a guide rail where the gas separation membranes are wound in a coil and stored on an inner surface thereof; a gas separation membrane module casing containing the guide rail where the gas separation membranes are stored.

Disclosed herein is a perfusion filtration module or bioreactor for filtering a fluid, wherein the filtration module or bioreactor has a plurality of hollow fiber filter membranes that are splayed to reduce fouling of the filtration array.

Described herein are fluid treatment devices for use in tangential flow filtration, comprising a housing unit and a composite material, wherein the composite material comprises: a support member comprising a plurality of pores extending through the support member; and a non-self-supporting macroporous cross-linked gel comprising macropores having an average size of 10 nm to 3000 nm, said macroporous gel being located in the pores of the support member. The invention also relates to a method of separating a substance from a fluid, comprising the step of placing the fluid in contact with an inventive device, thereby adsorbing or absorbing the substance to the composite material contained therein.

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to filtration systems and methods for production of biologically-produced products, which may include pharmaceutical and/or protein products. Certain biomanufacturing systems described herein comprise a bioreactor (e.g., a perfusion bioreactor, a chemostat) and a filter probe comprising a filter bundle comprising a plurality of hollow fibers (e.g., longitudinally aligned hollow fibers). According to some embodiments, a center-to-center distance between any two hollow fibers within the fiber bundle at one or more points along a length of the fiber bundle is relatively large (e.g., greater than or equal to an average outer diameter of the hollow fibers of the fiber bundle, greater than or equal to 1.1 times a minimum diameter of the two hollow fibers). In some embodiments, the hollow fibers within the fiber bundle are arranged in an array (e.g., a hexagonal, linear, annular, or square array).

Disclosed herein is a perfusion filtration module or bioreactor for filtering a fluid, wherein the filtration module or bioreactor has a plurality of hollow fiber filter membranes that are splayed to reduce fouling of the filtration array.

Hollow fiber cartridges and components and methods of their construction.

A cell culture bioreactor has perfusion membranes and gas transfer membranes or a gas phase in an extra-membrane space in contact with a film on the perfusion membranes. Gas transfer membranes may travel through the perfusion membranes or through the extra-membrane space. Examples with hollow fiber and flat sheet membranes are shown. One or more of the membranes optionally has a responsive surface, for example a thermo-responsive surface. In some examples, membranes are located in X-Y planes while the length of the reactor extends in a Z-direction.

The disclosure provides a hollow fiber liquid filter device provided with exhaust fiber membranes. The hollow fiber liquid filter device comprises a shell, a liquid inlet end, a liquid outlet end, a melt-blown fiber filter element, a hollow fiber liquid filtering part and a hollow fiber gas filtering part, wherein the liquid inlet end and the liquid outlet end are respectively connected to the upper end and the lower end of the shell, the melt-blown fiber filter element is arranged on the inner side of the shell, the hollow fiber liquid filtering part and the hollow fiber gas filtering part are respectively arranged on the inner side of the melt-blown fiber filter element, a liquid inlet is formed in the liquid inlet end, and ,a liquid outlet is formed in the liquid outlet end.