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New Product Developments

Filtration Industry Analyst April 2014

Financial Calendar2 May 2014 BASF Q1 2014 Analyst Conference and 2014 Annual Meeting, Mannheim, Germany

6 May 2014 Andritz Q1 2014 Results

8 May 2014 Lanxess Q1 2014 Interim Report Siemens Q2 Financial Year 2014 Results

9 May 2014 Merck Annual General Meeting 2014

14 May 2014 FLSmidth Q1 2014 Report

15 May 2014 Merck Q1 2014 Earnings

22 May 2014 Lanxess Annual Stockholders’ Meeting, Cologne, Germany

July 2014 GUD 2013/14 Financial Year Results Sartorius Half-Year 2014 Figures

17 July 2014 Alfa Laval Q2 2014 Report SKF Half-Year 2014 Report

22 July 2014 Sulzer Midyear 2014 Results

23 July 2014 Indutrade January–June 2014 Interim Report

24 July 2014 BASF Q2 2013 Interim Report

31 July 2014 Metso January–June 2014 Interim Review Siemens Q3 Financial Year 2014 Results Valmet January–June 2014 Interim Review

6 August 2014 Ahlstrom January–June 2014 Interim Report Lanxess Q2 2014 Interim Report

7 August 2014 Andritz Half Year 2014 Results Merck Q2 2014 Earnings

13 August 2014 FLSmidth Half Year 2014 Report

October 2014 Sartorius Nine-month 2014 Figures

15 October 2014 SKF Nine-month 2014 Report

16 October 2014 Sulzer Nine-month 2014 Order Intake

24 October 2014 Ahlstrom January–September 2014 Interim Report Metso January–September 2014 Interim Review Valmet January–September 2014 Interim Review

28 October 2014 Alfa Laval Q3 2014 Report

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories of Materials Science and Technology) and LG Electronics have developed a method to greatly increase the speed and efficient transmission of gas, liquid and water vapour through perforated graphene. The findings could lead to the future development of highly efficient filters to treat air and water. Scientists from ETH Zurich and LG developed a reliable method for creating 2D membranes using chemical vapour deposition (CVD) optimised to grow graphene with minimal defects and cracks to form graphene layers thinner than 1nm (nanometer). Using a focused ion beam (FIB), the researchers then drilled nanopores in double layers of graphene to produce porous membranes with aperture diameters between less than 10nm and 1um (micrometer). Testing various sized perforations, the researchers found that their graphene membrane resulted in water permeance five- to sevenfold faster than conventional filtration membranes and transmission of water vapour several hundred times higher compared to today’s most advanced breathable textiles. The team’s research paper Ultimate Permeation across Atomically Thin Porous Graphene has been published in Science, the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

www.ethz.ch, http://www.empa.ch/ www.lg.com and www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6181/289

BioLargo has been issued US Patent No 8 679 515, entitled “Activated Carbon Associated with Alkaline or Alkali Iodide”, by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The new patent provides protection for its BioLargo AOS (Advanced Oxidation System) Filter, and covers methods for activating carbon with advanced iodine technology to promote rapid oxidation that dismantles and eliminates contaminants in water. The AOS filter is currently undergoing industrial scale pilot testing at the University of Alberta’s Department of Engineering. Dennis Calvert, BioLargo’s president, said: “The patent for our AOS Filter provides added validation and protection to a valuable invention that we feel confident will be an effective solution to decontaminating water in a variety of industries. Our AOS

filter is a continuous flow device that instantaneously dismantles hard to manage, soluble contaminants as the water passes through the device. It requires very low power and we expect its capital cost to be highly competitive. Our AOS filter has a huge market opportunity as it provides a scalable and low-cost solution to the water industry’s need to process massive and varying volumes of water.

http://biolargo.comWesTech Engineering Inc has extended its filtration capability by introducing its rotary table vacuum filter and ceramic disc filter to the industrial and minerals markets. The WesTech rotary table vacuum filter is a continuous filtration unit suitable for handling large flow rates. The horizontal orientation of the rotary table enables a thick filter cake to form on the surface. The filter features a uniquely designed cake discharge system which utilises an extraction screw mechanism to remove the dewatered cake from the table and deposit it into a hopper. After discharge, the filter cloths are washed and the filtration process continues. The WesTech rotary table vacuum filter is an alternative to horizontal belt filters, rotary drum vacuum filters, and filter presses. WesTech says that its ceramic disc filter provides superior cake-drying performance while using only 10–25% of the power consumption used by comparable traditional disc filters. The one-piece, pressure-formed disc technology also provides higher backwash pressure and longer-lasting filter media.

www.westech-inc.commemsys and Horizon Environmental Technology Ltd have entered into a pilot plant agreement for a coal-to-chemical project in northern China. Horizon will use memsys’s membrane distillation technology to further concentrate the wastewater or brine solution from upstream unit processes so that the capital investment and operating cost of the downstream Zero Liquid Discharge technology can be significantly reduced. The pilot trial is due to start in May 2014. “We’re very excited to be working together with Horizon to solve one of China’s most serious water problems,” said Götz Lange, memsys’s chief operating officer. “We aim to have a major positive impact on the Chinese CTX water environment.”

www.memsys.eu