A system for generating sterile water is provided, including: a liquid holding container having thereon a container outlet; a filtration device including therein a low-pressure-differential pathogen filtration portion, wherein the filtration device has a filtration inlet and a filtration outlet; and a gas tube; wherein the container outlet is connected to the filtration inlet; wherein the filtration inlet has a gas hole with one end connected to the gas hole and the other end having a buoy; wherein the sterile water is substantially pathogen-free.

A device for purifying drinking water in multiple stages by combining orthogonal purification technologies in one module is described, where the device comprises a housing, a water inlet opening, a water outlet opening, a hollow cylinder which is filled with activated carbon, and a hollow cylinder with a semipermeable wall, wherein the hollow cylinder contains a chelating bactericidal gel or a chelating and bactericidal gel for removing heavy metals or bacteria or for removing heavy metals and bacteria.

This disclosure describes methods for purifying protein, and more particularly to methods for purifying protein that minimize the development of undesirable odors and flavors in the purified protein and increase protein yield.

The invention provides a system for sanitizing fluids such as water and air. In particular, the invention provides a combination of solid chlorhexidine and a polymer matrix, for which effluents are essentially free of leached chlorhexidine. The systems enable rapid disinfecting of fluids, including in line at the point of use, and can be employed for both high volume applications and disposable single-use applications.

The disclosure provides a method for extracting antibacterial peptides and albumin from pea whey wastewater, which includes following steps: in extracting the albumin, centrifuging with the pea whey wastewater generated during pea protein processing as raw material; controlling temperature and exchanging heat to adjust temperature of the raw material; sequentially performing a microfiltrating, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration and secondary nanofiltration to obtain an albumin slurry; performing a multi-effect concentration on the albumin slurry; adding an alkaline substances to adjust pH; sterilizing and drying to finally obtain the albumin, which realizes a targeted extraction of the albumin with small molecular weight in the pea whey wastewater and avoids resource waste. The albumin with small molecular weight and the antibacterial peptides in the pea whey water are effectively recycled, thus avoiding environmental pollution caused by improper treatment of the pea whey water and realizing resource reuse.

A technology that provides various modular biomimetic microfluidic modules emulating varieties of microvasculature in body. These microfluidic-base capillaries and lymphatic Technology modules are constructed as multilayered-microfluidic microchannels of various shapes, and aspect ratios using diverse biocompatible microfluidic polymers. Then, various semipermeable membranes are sandwiched in between these multilayered microfluidic microchannels. These membranes have different chemical, physical characteristics and MWCO values. Consequently, this design will produce much smaller dimension channels similar to human vasculature to achieve biomimetic properties like of human organs and tissues. By interchanging microfluidic-layers or the membranes various diverse modules are designed that act as building blocks for constructing various medical devices, various forms of dialysis devices including albumin and lipid dialysis, water purification, bioreactors bio-artificial organ support systems. Connecting various modules in diverse combinations, permutations, in parallel ad/or in series to ultimately design many unrelated medical devices such as dialysis, bioreactors and organ support devices.

A membrane separation process is described. The process comprises pumping of a fluid stream through a membrane module to produce a permeate during a plurality of membrane operating cycles. Each membrane operating cycle comprises a filtration cycle and a relaxation cycle. Concentration polarisation is controlled during the process by controlling duration of filtration cycles and relaxation cycles to relatively short duration to maintain the degree of concentration polarisation below a target.

A membrane separation process is described. The process comprises pumping of a fluid stream through a membrane module to produce a permeate during a plurality of membrane operating cycles. Each membrane operating cycle comprises a filtration cycle and a relaxation cycle. Concentration polarisation is controlled during the process by controlling duration of filtration cycles and relaxation cycles to relatively short duration to maintain the degree of concentration polarisation below a target.

The disclosure provides a method for extracting antibacterial peptides and albumin from pea whey wastewater, which includes following steps: in extracting the albumin, centrifuging with the pea whey wastewater generated during pea protein processing as raw material; controlling temperature and exchanging heat to adjust temperature of the raw material; sequentially performing a microfiltrating, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration and secondary nanofiltration to obtain an albumin slurry; performing a multi-effect concentration on the albumin slurry; adding an alkaline substances to adjust pH; sterilizing and drying to finally obtain the albumin, which realizes a targeted extraction of the albumin with small molecular weight in the pea whey wastewater and avoids resource waste. The albumin with small molecular weight and the antibacterial peptides in the pea whey water are effectively recycled, thus avoiding environmental pollution caused by improper treatment of the pea whey water and realizing resource reuse.

A liquid containing exosomes is filtered through a first filter that has a hole diameter that passes the exosomes and blocks cells, and is then stored in a first storage unit (rough filtration step). Next, pressure is applied to the inside of the first storage unit to pump the liquid to a pre-filtration chamber in a second filter that blocks the exosomes so that water in the liquid is filtered out into a post-filtration chamber. The exosome-containing liquid that was not filtered out is returned to the first storage unit, thereby increasing the exosome concentration in the liquid for extraction (concentration step). The exosome-containing concentrate in the first storage unit is then filtered through a third filter having a hole diameter that passes the exosomes and blocks bacteria, and is sent to a recovery unit (sterilization filtration step).