Abstract: Ion exchange resin granules containing a crosslinked polymerized &agr;,&bgr;-unsaturated acid, like acrylic acid, or a vinyl monomer containing an amino group, like polyvinylamine, and methods of manufacturing the resin, are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 11, 2000
Date of Patent:
May 27, 2003
Assignee:
BASF Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Ralph Spindler, Thomas W. Beihoffer, Michael M. Azad, Constance M. Noe
Abstract: A method of manufacturing a support media from a cross-linked polymerisate based on vinyl compounds, and exhibiting residual vinyl groups. The characteristic feature of the method is that the polymerisate is subjected to a heating step that preferably is carried out under reduced access of oxygen. The use of the support media is also described.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 5, 2001
Date of Patent:
May 27, 2003
Assignee:
Amersham Biosciences AB
Inventors:
Torunn Arntsen, Jan Roger Karlson, Geir Fonnum, Steinar Hagen
Abstract: A Polymer Electrolyte Membrane is formed by hot air drying of a membrane formed with an acidic main-polymer having proton conductivity and capability of forming an electrolyte membrane (S12), and then immersing it into a basic polymer solution to polymer (S14). The basic polymer is introduced in a large quantity into a site acting as a proton conduction pass of the main-polymer to take charge of the proton conduction. Since in the Polymer Electrolyte Membrane, a base polymer takes charge of proton conduction as compared with the case where proton takes charge of the proton conduction as a hydrate, the base polymer shows favorable proton conductivity even in a low humidity state at an elevated temperature exceeding boiling point of water.
Abstract: This invention relates to ion exchange resins that have a reduced amount of physically adsorbed organic compounds, as well as methods of producing and using such resins. In particular, the amount of extractable total organic carbon on the resins may be less than about 200 parts per trillion by wet weight, as measured using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. This invention also relates to methods of treating water that use such resins.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 6, 2001
Publication date:
March 13, 2003
Inventors:
Gregory W. Bachman, Robert G. Loken, Julie G. Sterling, Thomas K. Mallmann
Abstract: A sulfur-containing water insoluble hydrogel polymer for selectively removing trace amounts of dissolved metal species is produced from a reaction product of nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) and polyethylenimine (PEI) which is then treated in a water-swollen state with carbon disulfide. The polymer has a physical configuration that facilitates formation of a porous stationary bed through which water can pass for treatment.
Abstract: A method and materials are described for purification of DNA using ion exchange resins. This ion exchange method provides the means to remove salts and low molecular weight contaminants from DNA in solution without binding or removing the DNA of interest.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 5, 2001
Date of Patent:
January 7, 2003
Assignee:
Edge Biosystems, Inc.
Inventors:
Eva Kristyanne, Reyes Candau, John L. Seed
Abstract: Graft polymeric membranes and methods for making graft polymeric membranes have one or more trifluorovinyl aromatic monomers that are radiation graft polymerized to a polymeric base film. The membranes comprise a polymeric base film to which has been graft polymerized substituted &agr;,&agr;,&bgr;-trifluorostyrene and/or &agr;,&agr;,&bgr;-trifluorovinylnaphthylene monomers, which are activated towards graft polymerization. As ion-exchange membranes, the membranes are suitable for use in electrode apparatus, including membrane electrode assemblies in, for example, fuel cells. The membranes can also be crosslinked.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 21, 2001
Publication date:
September 26, 2002
Inventors:
Charles Stone, Alfred E. Steck, Biswajit Choudhury
Abstract: A method of removing ammonium ions or amines from contaminated water includes treating the water with sodium tetraphenylborate under acidic conditions. Advantageously, the tetraphenylborate is immobilized on polymer beads and the water is contacted with the beads or passed through a bed of the beads.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 2, 2000
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2002
Assignee:
Dalhousie University
Inventors:
T. Stanley Cameron, Osvald Knop, Neil S. Cameron, Elinor M. Cameron, G. Ronald Brown
Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of monodisperse ion exchangers, particularly monodisperse anion exchangers or monodisperse chelating resins, for the selective removal of arsenic and/or antimony in the form of AsF6− ions or SbF6− ions from aqueous solutions.
Abstract: Graft polymeric membranes in which one or more trifluorovinyl aromatic monomers are radiation graft polymerized to a preformed polymeric base film are provided, as well as ion-exchange membranes prepared therefrom. Preferred monomers include substituted &agr;, &bgr;, &bgr;-trifluorostyrenes and trifluorovinyl naphthalenes which are activated towards the grafting reaction or facilitate the introduction of more than one ion-exchange group per monomer unit in the grafted chains. The ion-exchange membranes are useful in dialysis applications, and particularly in electrochemical applications, for example as membrane electrolytes in electrochemical fuel cells and electrolyzers.
Abstract: A highly productive and environmentally friendly method of loading pharmaceutically active substances onto ion exchange resins using water and, if desired, a water miscible or water-immiscible solvent.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing novel, monodisperse crosslinked bead polymers having thiourea groups and their use for adsorbing metal compounds, in particular heavy metal compounds or noble metal compounds.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 21, 2000
Date of Patent:
December 11, 2001
Assignee:
Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Reinhold Klipper, Werner Strüver, Ulrich Schnegg, Heiko Hoffmann, Dieter Mauer, Bernhard Lehmann, Bruno Hees, Holger Lütjens
Abstract: The present invention relates to iodine demand disinfectants. It relates in particular to a process for preparing a polyiodide-resin for use as an iodine demand disinfectant wherein a porous strong base anion exchange resin in a salt form, is contacted with a material capable of donating a member absorbable by the resin so as to convert the resin to the polyiodide-resin. The adsorbable member is selected from the group comprising I2 and polyiodide ion having a valence of −1. The process is characterized in that conversion of the anion exchange resin to the polyiodide-resin is effected at elevated temperature and elevated pressure, the elevated temperature being 100 degrees C. or higher, the elevated pressure being greater than atmospheric pressure. The present invention also relates to disinfectant substance comprising an iodine (impregnated) resin as produced by the above process.
Abstract: The present invention pertains to a process for the cross-linking of modified engineering thermoplastics, in particular, of polymeric sulfinic acids or sulfinic acid salts.
In particular, the invention pertains to a process for the preparation of cross-linked polymers, characterized in that solutions of polymeric sulfinic acids or sulfinic acid salts (—SO2Me), optionally in the presence of organic di- or oligohalogeno compounds [R(Hal)x], are freed from solvent and cross-linked to polymers, wherein
Me stands for a monovalent or polyvalent metal cation;
R stands for an optionally substituted alkyl or aryl residue containing from 1 to 20 carbon atoms; and
Hal stands for F, Cl, Br or I.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 4, 1997
Date of Patent:
April 24, 2001
Inventors:
Werner Schnurnberger, Jochen Kerres, Wei Cui
Abstract: A method of purification of physiological liquids of organism has the step of passing a physiological liquid through a material which has a size, a shape, and a structure selected so as to remove toxic compounds from the physiological liquid and is composed of a partially chloromethylated porous highly crosslinked styrene or divinylbenzene copolymerwhich initially have surface exposed chloromethyl groups in which thereafter chlorine is replaced with an element which forms different surface exposed functional groups with a greater hydrophilicity and greater biocompatibility than that of the chloromethyl group.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 6, 1998
Date of Patent:
October 24, 2000
Assignee:
Renal Tech International, LLC
Inventors:
Vadim Davankov, Maria Tsyurupa, Ludmila Pavlova, Dzidra Tur
Abstract: Process for separating off a peptide or a nucleic acid by an anion exchanger (I) characterized in that a) the anion exchanger (I) exhibits ligands, which (i) contain a primary, secondary or tertiary amino group and (ii) are covalently bound to an organic polymer (matrix), b) there on a carbon atom at a distance of 2 or 3 atoms away from an amino nitrogen in the ligands is a hydroxyl group or a primary, secondary or tertiary amino group, and c) the maximum elution ionic strength in the pH range 2-14 for at least one of the proteins transferrin, ovalbumin 1, ovalbumin 2, .beta.-lactoglobulin 1 and .beta.-lactoglobulin 2 on the anion exchanger is higher than the elution ionic strength required for a quaternary comparative ion exchanger.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 29, 1998
Date of Patent:
July 18, 2000
Assignee:
Amersham Pharmacia Biotech AB
Inventors:
Rolf Berglund, Jan Bergstrom, Makonnen Belew, Lennart Soderberg
Abstract: Disclosed herein are a class of anion exchange resins containing two different exchange sites with improved selectivity and sorptive capability for chemical species in solution, such as heptavalent technetium (as pertechnetate anion, TcO.sub.4.sup.-). The resins are prepared by first reacting haloalkylated crosslinked copolymer beads with a large tertiary amine in a solvent in which the resin beads can swell, followed by reaction with a second, smaller, tertiary amine to more fully complete the functionalization of the resin. The resins have enhanced selectivity, capacity, and exchange kinetics.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 2, 1997
Date of Patent:
May 9, 2000
Assignee:
Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation
Inventors:
Spiro D. Alexandratos, Gilbert M. Brown, Peter V. Bonnesen, Bruce A. Moyer
Abstract: A method for preparing non-agglomerating mixed bed ion exchange resin systems without affecting the ion exchange kinetics of the anion exchange resin component of the mixed bed system is disclosed. Pretreatment of the anion exchange resin component with a sulfonated poly(vinylaromatic) polyelectrolyte is particularly effective in providing non-agglomerated mixed bed systems without affecting ion exchange kinetics. Treatment levels of 10 to 800 milligrams per liter of anion exchange resin with sulfonated poly(vinylaromatic) polyelectrolyte having number average molecular weight from 5,000 to 1,000,000 are particularly preferred.
Abstract: Ion exchange materials, as particulate and membranes, are modified by permanently attaching counter ions to a portion of the ion exchange sites. The permanent attachment of the counter ions forms semiconductor junctions which act as mini anodes, or cathodes, to significantly increase the ability to oxidize or reduce a species to be treated, or split water, in an electrolytic reactor. The non-converted transfer sites in the ion exchange material also significantly increase the mobility of the ionic species in the electrolyte. The ion exchange material may be a monobed of either modified anion exchange material or modified cation exchange material, or a suitable mixed bed of both, depending upon the application. When the anode is in direct contact with a modified cation exchange material and under the influence of direct current, free radical hydroxyl and regenerant hydrogen are formed.
Abstract: Polymers of improved surface quality are obtained by polymerization of microencapsulated monomer droplets suspended in an aqueous phase if the monomer and/or the aqueous phase contain a polymerization inhibitor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 12, 1997
Date of Patent:
February 1, 2000
Assignee:
Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Olaf Halle, Wolfgang Podszun, Robert Bloodworth, Werner Struver, Axel Ingendoh
Abstract: Novel organic ion-exchange polymers and membranes formed from these polymers provide improved performance in electrolytic cells. The membranes exhibit an expanded micro-structure as the result of the removal of organic groups previously reacted with the ion-exchange groups of the polymer. The polymers are also useful in finely divided form as catalysts or deposited on a catalyst support. When formed into sheets, the polymers are useful as membranes in the separation of miscible liquids and in the separation of gases.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 2, 1998
Date of Patent:
January 4, 2000
Assignee:
The Dow Chemical Company
Inventors:
Marius W. Sorenson, Robert A. Cipriano, Jose J. Longoria, John D. Weaver
Abstract: Anion-exchanging molded bodies and a method of manufacturing the same. The aim is to find anion-exchangers which can be produced in any shape simply, cheaply and reproducibly, without the use of carcinogenic chloromethyl ethers. It has been established that halogenated polyethers, preferably epichlorhydrin polymers, can be treated with tertiary amines together with inert polymers to produce such anion-exchanging molded bodies by a phase-inversion process or evaporation of the solvent. These molded bodies can be in the form of blocks, balls or films.
Abstract: This invention relates to a process for making an ion exchange material, the process comprising:(A) forming an aqueous solution comprising a water-soluble polymer containing pendent carboxyl groups and a water-soluble polyol, the number of carboxyl groups provided by said polymer being in excess of the number of hydroxyl groups provided by said polyol;(B) forming a thin film or a composite with the solution from step (A), the composite comprising the solution from step (A) in contact with a support material;(C) drying the solution to form a dried polymer;(D) heating the dried polymer from step (C) under esterification conditions to produce a water-insoluble partially esterified crosslinked polymer; and(E) contacting said partially esterified crosslinked polymer from step (D) with alkali or alkaline earth metal ions to form said ion exchange material.
Abstract: A process for making a cation exchange membranes includes impregnating a film of highly fluorinated sulfonic acid polymer in sulfonyl fluoride form with a compound selected from the group having the formula R-SO.sub.2 F, wherein R is a straight chain, branched or cyclic, highly fluorinated alkyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms. The impregnated film is irradiated with the radiation dose being in the range of 0.1 to 15 MRad. After irradiation, the film is hydrolyzed to form the membrane. The membranes have enhanced electrochemical properties when employed in electrochemical cells including improved performance under low humidity conditions.
Abstract: A method of reducing the volume of a mixture of filter fibers and a powder-form ion-exchange resin, produces a waste product that is particularly suitable for ultimate disposal. A solvent which dissolves the filter fibers is added to the mixture and a mixture which is thus formed is first dried and then given an additional heat treatment.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 16, 1996
Date of Patent:
March 2, 1999
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Klaus Blinn, Karl-Heinz Kleinschroth, Dietmar Bege
Abstract: A process for preparing an N-oxide of pyridine or a halopyridine, said process comprising reacting a reaction mixture of said pyridine, or said halopyridine, and hydrogen peroxide in a reaction conducted at an elevated temperature in the presence of a catalytically effective amount of a heterogeneous catalyst, said heterogeneous catalyst being insoluble in said reactants, to form said 2-halopyridine-N-oxide or pyridine-N-oxide.
Abstract: Monodisperse crosslinked polymers prepared by seed/feed polymerization have less tendency to tack when a microencapsulated monodisperse crosslinked polymer has been used as seed. Compared with the seed used, the seed/feed polymer obtained exhibits substantially less broadening of the particle size distribution when microencapsulated seed has been used.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 22, 1997
Date of Patent:
November 10, 1998
Assignee:
Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Robert Bloodworth, Werner Struver, Holger Lutjens, Olaf Halle, Wolfgang Podszun
Abstract: The present invention concerns the synthesis of several biomimetically important polymer-supported, sulfonated catechol (PS-CATS), sulfonated bis-catechol linear amide (PS-2-6-LICAMS) and sulfonated 3,3-linear tris-catechol amide (PS-3,3-LICAMS) ligands, which chemically bond to modified 6% crosslinked macroporous polystyrene-divinylbenzene beads (PS-DVB). These polymers are useful for the for selective removal and recovery of environmentally and economically important metal ions from aqueous solution, as a function of pH. The Fe.sup.3+ ion selectivity shown for PS-CATS, PS-2-6-LICAMS, and PS-3,3-LICAMS polymer beads in competition with a similar concentration of Cu.sup.2+, Zn.sup.2+, Mn.sup.2+, Ni.sup.2+, Mg.sup.2+, Al.sup.3+, and Cr.sup.3+ ions at pH 1-3. Further, the metal ion selectivity is changed at higher pH values in the absence of Fe.sup.3+ (for example, Hg.sup.2+ at pH 3). The rates of selective removal and recovery of the trivalent metal ions, e.g. Fe.sup.3+ Al.sup.3+ ion etc.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 17, 1997
Date of Patent:
November 10, 1998
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California
Abstract: A modified polymeric cation exchange membrane for use in an electrochemical cell, the said membrane having a salt selected from the group consisting of silver, tungsten, molybdenum and a mixture thereof deposited within the polymer matrix, the said salt being insoluble in the electrolytes which, in use, contact either side of the membrane.The membranes are of particular use in electrochemical cells and combine a low electrolytic resistivity with a high permselectivity.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 12, 1996
Date of Patent:
November 3, 1998
Assignee:
National Power PLC
Inventors:
Graham Edward Cooley, Vincent F. D'Agostino
Abstract: The present invention provides an ion selective resin templated for Pb(II) ion, said resin synthesized by the steps of: copolymerizing styrene monomers with lead vinylbenzoate complexes; cross-linking said complexes with divinylbenzene; removing said Pb(II) ion by acid washing thereby creating cavities templated for Pb(II) ion. Also provided is an ion selective electrode which utilizes a Pb(II) ion templated ion exchange resin.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 16, 1996
Date of Patent:
September 29, 1998
Assignee:
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Abstract: A solid sorbent material comprising cellulose which has been modified by hydrolysis with a cellulase enzyme for a duration sufficient to increase the protein adsorption capacity of the solid sorbent material and methods for preparing the sorbent material. Methods for purifying a protein include passing a liquid medium containing the protein over the solid sorbent material are also included.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 7, 1995
Date of Patent:
September 15, 1998
Assignee:
Purdue Research Foundation
Inventors:
Michael Ladisch, Christine Ladisch, Karen Kohlmann, Ajoy Velayudhan, Richard Hendrickson, Paul Westgate, Jiyin Liu
Abstract: The present invention is concerned with improved chelating resins. More particularly, the present invention is concerned with macroporous, aminoalkylphosphonic or iminodiacetic acid chelating resins having improved stability and capacity in the removal of cations (e.g. calcium, magnesium, barium and strontium) from brines and in the removal of metals (e.g. nickel, copper and zinc) from waste streams.
Abstract: A sorbent for removing toxicants from blood or plasma includes a plurality of beads composed of hyper-crosslinked polystyrene-type resin and having a surface which is modified so as to prevent adsorption of large proteins and platelets and to minimize activation of blood complement system without affecting noticeably accessibility of an inner adsorption space of the beads for small and middle-sized toxicant molecules.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 25, 1996
Date of Patent:
June 30, 1998
Assignee:
White Eagle International Technologies Group, Inc.
Inventors:
Vadim A. Davankov, Maria P. Tsyurupa, Ludmila A. Pavlova, Dzidra R. Tur
Abstract: A method for hydrophilizing a hydrophobic plastic surface which exhibits a hydrophobic polymer that has hydrogens that bind to sp.sup.3 -hybridized carbon atoms, characterized by the steps of: (i) contacting the plastic surface with a liquid having dissolved therein (a) a hydrogen-abstracting UV-initiator and (b) a hydrophilic polymer which has one or more alkene groups; and (ii) irradiating the solution with UV light which activates the initiator.
Abstract: Novel organic ion-exchange polymers and membranes formed from these polymers provide improved performance in electrolytic cells. The membranes exhibit an expanded micro-structure as the result of the removal of organic groups previously reacted with the ion-exchange groups of the polymer. The polymers are also useful in finely divided form as catalysts or deposited on a catalyst support. When formed into sheets, the polymers are useful as membranes in the separation of miscible liquids and in the separation of gases.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 31, 1996
Date of Patent:
May 5, 1998
Assignee:
The Dow Chemical Company
Inventors:
Marius W. Sorenson, Robert A. Cipriano, Jose J. Longoria, John D. Weaver
Abstract: A process for the preparation of an anion exchange resin is described, which comprises reacting an aromatic crosslinked haloalkyl-containing copolymer with an amine in the presence of at least 100 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the copolymer, of water and at least 5 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of water, of a water-soluble inorganic salt. A process for the preparation of an anion exchange resin is also described, which comprises acting a haloalkylating agent on an aromatic crosslinked copolymer, separating an unreacted portion of the haloalkylating agent from the aromatic crosslinked haloalkyl-containing copolymer so obtained, and reacting the resulting haloalkyl-containing copolymer with an amine in the presence of at least 100 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the copolymer, of water and at least 5 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of water, of a water-soluble inorganic salt.
Abstract: Cation exchange resins are prepared by sulfonating copolymer beads in the presence of a swelling solvent under pressure. Pressure sulfonation shortens cycle times and requires less energy while maintaining or improving product quality.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 27, 1997
Date of Patent:
February 24, 1998
Assignee:
The Dow Chemical Company
Inventors:
Kenneth L. Foster, Natalie N. Westphal, Suresh Subramonian
Abstract: An ion exchange resin is disclosed that is comprised of an insoluble copolymer onto which are grafted pendent groups that provide 1.0 to about 10 mmol/g dry weight phosphorous. The pendent groups have the formula ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen, a cation or mixtures thereof; and R.sup.1 is hydrogen or an C.sub.1 -C.sub.2 alkyl group. The resin also contains zero to about 5 mmol/g dry weight of pendent aromatic sulfonate groups. Processes for making and using an ion exchange-resin are also disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 3, 1997
Date of Patent:
January 27, 1998
Assignees:
ARCH Development Corp., University of Tennessee Research Corp.
Inventors:
Andrzej W. Trochimcznk, Ralph C. Gatrone, Spiro Alexandratos, E. Philip Horwitz
Abstract: A method of preparing a modified cation exchange membrane in which a sulfide of silver, tungsten, molybdenum or a mixture thereof is deposited within the polymer matrix, which method comprises the steps of:i) forming within the polymer matrix of the membrane a complex of silver, tungsten, molybdenum or a mixture thereof with a water soluble compound containing an --SH group; andii) converting the complex formed in step (i) into the insoluble sulfide of silver, tungsten, molybdenum or a mixture thereof.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 4, 1996
Date of Patent:
January 6, 1998
Assignee:
National Power plc
Inventors:
Vincent F. D'Agostino, Graham Edward Cooley, John Michael Newton, Karel Bouchal
Abstract: Described are anion-exchange materials having extraordinarily high affinity for plutonium anions such as plutonium (IV), and technetium anions such as pertechnetate. Preferred inventive resins are highly divinylbenzene-crosslinked polyvinylpyridine resins exhibiting a macroreticular bead form, which have been quaternized to contain a substantial amount of 1-alkyl-pyridinium groups wherein the alkyl group has 4 to 8 carbon atoms. The inventive resins can be used in preferred processes for recovering plutonium and/or technetium anions from aqueous mediums, for example nuclear waste streams or groundwater related to civilian or defense-related nuclear operations.
Abstract: Anion exchange resins including at least two positively charged sites and a ell-defined spacing between the positive sites are provided together with a process of removing anions or anionic metal complexes from aqueous solutions by use of such resins. The resins can be substituted poly(vinylpyridine) and substituted polystyrene.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 7, 1995
Date of Patent:
September 23, 1997
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California Office of Technology Transfer
Inventors:
Gordon D. Jarvinen, S. Fredric Marsh, Richard A. Bartsch
Abstract: The present invention describes polymers having high nitrogen content and high cationic charges derived from dicyanimide, dicyandiamide or guanidine and inorganic ammonium salts. The new compositions are useful in the pulp and paper industries as pitch control agents, as well as adjuvants such as in felt cleaner applications. The new materials are also useful in paper sizing, as retention aids, as antistatic agents, and as coagulants and flocculating agents.
Abstract: A monomer having cationic groups and a monomer having anionic groups are introduced into polymeric substrates such as fibers, woven fabrics, nonwoven fabrics and membranous materials through radiation-initiated graft polymerization, thereby producing polymeric electrolyte complexes that have good physical properties and which can be formed into shapes that suit specific uses. Also disclosed is a process according to which hydrophilic groups and/or ion-exchange groups are introduced into polymeric substrates such as fibers, woven fabrics, nonwoven fabrics and membranous materials through radiation-initiated graft polymerization. To introduce hydrophilic groups and/or ion-exchange groups, two or more monomers are used as selected from among hydrophilic monomers, monomers having cation-exchange groups (e.g. acrylic acid, methacrylic acid and styrenesulfonic acid salt), and monomers having anion-exchange groups (e.g. vinylbenzyltrimethyl ammonium salt and diethylaminoethyl methacrylate).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 16, 1995
Date of Patent:
July 15, 1997
Assignees:
Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Nikki Chemical Co., Ltd.
Abstract: The present invention relates to ion exchange membranes comprising soluble graft copolymer comprising a backbone of a first polymer having a main chain containing aromatic rings and a polymerizable vinyl or ring containing compound which contains at least one functional group which displays ion exchange functionality or may be converted to display ion exchange functionality, which is grafted onto said first polymer on at least one of said aromatic rings or on at least one benzylic carbon atom of said aromatic rings. The copolymer components may be selected to produce membranes for a variety of uses including electrodialytic processes such as electrodialytic concentration and separation processes, electrodialytic water splitting, electrolysis or electrolytic splitting of water and fuel cells for electrical generation; and pressure or chemical potential driven membrane processes such as ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, piezodialysis, diffusion dialysis and pervaporation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 23, 1994
Date of Patent:
July 1, 1997
Assignee:
The Graver Company
Inventors:
Christopher Andreola, Frederick P. Chlanda, Jian-Ping Huang
Abstract: A modified polymeric cation exchange membrane for use in an electrochemical cell, the membrane having a salt selected from the group consisting of silver, tungsten, molybdenum and a mixture thereof deposited within the polymer matrix, the salt being insoluble in the electrolytes which, in use, contact either side of the membrane.The membranes are of particular use in electrochemical cells and combine a low electrolytic resistivity with a high permselectivity.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 7, 1995
Date of Patent:
May 6, 1997
Assignee:
National Power PLC
Inventors:
Graham E. Cooley, Vincent F. D'Agostino
Abstract: The present invention concerns the synthesis of several biomimetically important polymer-supported, sulfonated catechol (PS-CATS), sulfonated bis-catechol linear amide (PS-2-6-LICAMS) and sulfonated 3,3-linear tris-catechol amide (PS-3,3-LICAMS) ligands, which chemically bond to modified 6% crosslinked macroporous polystyrene-divinylbenzene beads (PS-DVB). These polymers are useful for the for selective removal and recovery of environmentally and economically important metal ions from aqueous solution, as a function of pH. The Fe.sup.3+ ion selectivity shown for PS-CATS, PS-2-6-LICAMS, and PS-3,3-LICAMS polymer beads in competition with a similar concentration of Cu.sup.2+, Zn.sup.2+, Mn.sup.2+, Ni.sup.2+,Mg.sup.2+, Al.sup.3+, and Cr.sup.3+ ions at pH 1-3. Further, the metal ion selectivity is changed at higher pH values in the absence of Fe.sup.3+ (for example, Hg.sup.2+ at pH 3). The rates of selective removal and recovery of the trivalent metal ions, e.g. Fe.sup.3+ Al.sup.3+ ion etc.
Abstract: An ion exchange resin is disclosed that is comprised of an insoluble copolymer onto which are grafted pendent groups that provide 1.0 to about 10 mmol/g dry weight phosphorous. The pendent groups have the formula ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen, a cation or mixtures thereof; andR.sup.1 is hydrogen or an C.sub.1 -C.sub.2 alkyl group. The resin also contains zero to about 5 mmol/g dry weight of pendent aromatic sulfonate groups. Processes for making and using an ion exchange resin are also disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 6, 1995
Date of Patent:
April 8, 1997
Assignees:
Arch Development Corp., The University of Tennessee Research Corp.
Inventors:
Andrzej W. Trochimcznk, Ralph C. Gatrone, Spiro Alexandratos, E. Philip Horwitz
Abstract: Described are anion-exchange materials having extraordinarily high affinity for plutonium anions such as plutonium (IV), and technetium anions such as pertechnetate. Preferred inventive resins are highly divinylbenzene cross-linked polyvinylpyridine resins exhibiting a macroreticular bead form, which have been quaternized to contain a substantial amount of 1-alkyl-pyridinium groups wherein the alkyl group has 4 to 8 carbon atoms. The inventive resins can be used in preferred processes for recovering plutonium and/or technetium anions from aqueous mediums, for example nuclear waste streams or groundwater related to civilian or defense-related nuclear operations.