Abstract: The invention provides a novel apparatus and method for removing liquid contaminant from a well to decontaminate a contaminated aquifer. The apparatus includes a pump capable of moving water and contaminant from below ground surface to a location above ground surface, a motor connected to drive the pump and means connected to power the motor. A water and contaminant inlet are located between the pump and the motor to accept inward flow of water and contaminant to the pump. An outlet pipe connects to the pump and extends above ground surface. A sleeve surrounds the inlet and connects between the inlet and the motor and has an opening to receive water and contaminant. The sleeve is sized to slide in and out of the well and is larger than the outlet pipe. The sleeve creates an annular space around the outlet pipe to permit passage of water and contaminant from the open end to the inlet.

Abstract: A tube liquid dispenser includes a resilient tube, a filter positioned in the tube at one end, a flange of sealing material extending radially around the outer circumference of the tube, and an opposite end closed except for a dispensing opening of a size through which liquid passes only upon the application of pressure to the liquid.

Abstract: In the on-line method of the invention, dialysis liquid which has been produced or prepared by a dialysis machine is taken from the dialyzer at the blood side and pumped, either by means of a blood pump of the machine or by the pump of the dialysis liquid circuit, through the blood tubes, optionally using the filling program specific to the machine. As a result, the extracorporeal blood circulation system need no longer be flushed and filled with a salt solution, which has so far entailed considerable costs.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of purifying native, intact fibrinogen from a liquid sample containing contaminants having molecular weights higher and/or lower than that of the fibrinogen. The method comprises subjecting the sample to filtration using one or more filters having a molecular weight cut-off such that the native, intact fibrinogen is separated from the contaminants.

Abstract: A method for the purification of Factor VIII from human plasma is described, wherein a solution comprising Factor VIII is purified by using ion exchange chromatographic columns. Factor VIII obtained by said method is also described.

Abstract: A method is provided for processing donated blood, particularly a platelet-containing solution such as platelet-containing plasma, involving separating blood into a red cell containing sediment layer and a supernatant layer, and passing the supernatant layer through a filter until the filter is blocked, thereby leaving platelets to be harvested. The preferred filter comprises a porous medium having a plurality of zones of progressively increasing density.

Abstract: A screen for filtering undesirable particles from a liquid has a flat parallel array of warp filaments spaced apart less than a preselected minimal linear dimension of the undesirable particles transverse to a parallel array of pairs of shute filaments, the shute filaments of each pair being oppositely woven about and twisted 180.degree. at the warp filaments to secure the warp filaments and maintain the spaces therebetween, the spaces between pairs of shute filaments being greater than the preselected minimal linear dimension of the undesirable particles so that the screen is characterized by rectangular flow apertures therethrough, the apertures being an access ratio ranging as great as 4 to 10, even for filaments having diameter ranging as small as 0.007 to 0.001 inches.

Abstract: A screen for filtering undesirable particles from a liquid has a flat parallel array of warp filaments spaced apart less than a preselected minimal linear dimension of the undesirable particles transverse to a parallel array of pairs of shute filaments, the shute filaments of each pair being oppositely woven about the warp filaments to secure the warp filaments and maintain the spaces therebetween, the spaces between pairs of shute filaments being greater than the preselected minimal linear dimension of the undesirable particles so that the screen is characterized by rectangular flow apertures therethrough, the apertures being an access ratio ranging as great as 4 to 10, even for filaments having diameter ranging as small as 0.007 to 0.001 inches.

Abstract: A unit for cleaning liquid contaminated with solids, including a housing having a tank section defining a compartment in which contaminated liquid is deposited. The solid contaminants tend to collect as a sludge layer on the bottom wall of the tank section. The housing includes a discharge section having a base wall which inclines upwardly away from one end of the tank section. A conveyor moves along the bottom wall and thence upwardly along the inclined base wall for moving the sludge layer upwardly out of the liquid for discharge at a discharge opening. A dryer is associated with the inclined base wall and includes a pressure chamber disposed under the sludge layer for ejecting plural streams of air upwardly through the sludge layer for effecting removal of moisture therefrom. A suction chamber is disposed directly adjacent the upper side of the sludge layer in opposed relationship to the pressure chamber for collecting the moist air passing through the sludge layer.

Abstract: Standing vortices are formed in a liquid flowing with a reversing but mean flow through a conduit, divided into a series of chambers with narrow inlet and outlets by appropriate selection of the chamber aspect ratio, Reynolds number and Strouhal number.

Abstract: A plasma separating apparatus comprising a housing provided with a blood inlet port, a plasma outlet port, and a blood cell outlet port; an rotor rotatably held in the housing; a blood separating space formed between the outside surface of the rotor and the inside surface of the housing and communicating with the blood inlet port at its upper part and with the blood cell outlet port at its lower part; a plasma passage enclosing at least a part of the circumference of the blood separating space and communicating with the plasma outlet port; and a plasma separating membrane disposed so as to partition the blood separating space and the plasma passage.

Abstract: An anti-thrombogenic blood treating system, comprising selectively permeable hollow yarn membranes made of a composition containing a copolymer with polyethylene oxide component, and headers, catheters and circuits respectively covered on the blood contact surface with a heparinized hydrophilic copolymer containing vinyl chloride as a component monomer or a hydrophilic copolymer with polyethylene oxide component, in combination. All the blood contact surfaces are made anti-thrombogenic to allow, for the first time, the long-time extracorporeal circulation without intracorporeal administration of heparin.

Abstract: A method for purifying blood plasma by treating said blood plasma with powdery or granular active carbon whereby the purification is carried out continuously by leading the blood plasma, having a pH of 2-5, through a column filled with active carbon, whereby the particle size of said active carbon substantially ranges from 50-500 .mu.m.

Abstract: There is disclosed an automated hemodialysis filtration system comprising one or a plurality of the following improvements, including a supply-regulated pump, an inverted drip chamber, a filtrate system communicating with a hemofilter and comprising a filtrate reservoir, a filter pump and pressure sensors, and a means for adding dry pellets to water to form the dialysate.

Abstract: A filter device and method are provided for treating parenteral nutrient fluids, particularly TNA systems containing lipids, glucose, and amino acids. The filter device comprises a housing and a microporous medium in the form of a synthetic polymeric microporous structure having a pore rating of less than 1.2 micrometers. A preferred microporous medium comprises, in series, a matrix of microfibers which has been radiation grafted to render the matrix wettable by parenteral nutrient fluids followed by a microporous membrane, also wettable by parenteral nutrient fluids, and having a finer pore rating than the microfibrous matrix.

Abstract: A composite article comprising, in the unexpanded form, a fibrillated PTFE matrix and a combination of energy expandable hollow polymeric particles and sorptive particles, which composite, on applying energy such as steam, heat, or laser energy, provides an expanded article having increased void volume and decreased density. The expanded articles are porous and efficient articles for separation and purification applications. In flat or rolled form, the composite article can be used in separation devices.

Abstract: An apparatus for the continuous treatment of liquids such as rainwater, sewage and drainage, comprised of a rotary separator having a centrally located freely rotating cylinder which creates positively and forcibly a circular flow of liquid within the rotary separator different from the circular flow of the liquid caused by its being charged within the separator. Solid and suspended materials in the liquid are drawn to the center of the separator for removal and containment within a reservoir respectively. The reservoir, for collection of suspended material, is formed as part of the rotating cylinder. The apparatus further may comprise a holder-separator for entrapping floating substances.

Abstract: A blood plasma-separating membrane formed of a porous membrane possessing a wetting time in the range of 3 to 500 seconds relative to water and a non-priming grade blood plasma separator using the same.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for filtering open drains, such as rain gutters, uses at least one elongated tube constructed from a plurality of strands of flexible, resilient, durable, corrosion resistant material. An affixing system removably affixes each of the elongated tube in the open drain. A method and a kit for filtering open drains also are disclosed.

Abstract: A liquid chromatography column protection system having a system pump, a bubble trap, and a column includes detectors for monitoring certain system conditions such as the presence of air or overpressurization and valves and controlling means for shutting down system operation when the conditions are detected.