Overview

Membranes are used for Clarification of Sugar Solutions, recovery of starches, and egg-white concentration. Brewing industry has also been using membranes for many years with the recovery of beer from yeasty sediments.

Essential step for the production of fruit (or vegetable) juices, alcohols, wines… membrane filtrations are more and more used in these areas. New processes have for objective to extract the maximum of liquid while reducing, and / or eliminating, clarifications steps of conventional treatment.

Benefits

Our resins offer the membrane producers the following benefits:

Thermal and mechanical benefits:

• High fiber strength.
• Continuous use up to 150^oC for SOLEF^® PVDF
• Tg of 185^oC for UDEL^® PSU

Chemical benefits:

• Withstands the majority of membrane-cleaning methods.
• Tolerates feeds containing various contaminants.
• Excellent hydrolytic and oxidative stability.
• Readily soluble in industrial solvents used in membrane manufacturing.

Manufacturing benefits:

• Easy to process
• Reliable results
• Allow reproducible formation of good quality membranes
• Controllable pore sizes (for membranes ranging from RO to MF)
• Wide range of molecular weights available to create various solution viscosities.

Solvay Advanced Polymers. Let the benefits filter down to you, your products, and your customers.