Integrated three-dimensional filter separates nanoscale from microscale elements in a microfluidic chip

We report on the integration of a size-based three-dimensional filter, with micrometre-sized pores, in a commercial microfluidic chip. The filter is fabricated inside an already sealed microfluidic channel using the unique capabilities of two-photon polymerization. This direct-write technique enables integration of the filter by post-processing in a chip that has been fabricated by standard technologies. The filter is located at the intersection of two channels in order to control the amount of flow passing through the filter. Tests with a suspension of 3 μm polystyrene spheres in a Rhodamine 6G solution show that 100% of the spheres are stopped, while the fluorescent molecules are transmitted through the filter. We demonstrate operation up to a period of 25 minutes without any evidence of clogging. Preliminary validation of the device for plasma separation from whole blood is shown. Moreover, the filter can be cleaned and reused by reversing the flow.     

近红外吸收PC滤光片的制备与性能研究

使用染料-高聚物混合(dye-in-polymer)的方法将近红外吸收染料作为功能添加剂分散在聚碳酸酯(PC)中,采用注塑成型的方法制备了用于夜视兼容照明的近红外吸收滤光片.研究了近红外吸收剂在PC材料中的吸收行为,确定了近红外吸收剂的添加量,最终制备的近红外吸收滤光片在660～930 nm波长范围内有良好的吸收能力,在此波段范围内的光线透过率为0.15%,同时在450～630 nm波长范围内保持了较好的可见光透过性.按照标准测试手段对样品的耐热老化性能,耐光老化性能和力学性能进行了测试.结果表明,制备的近红外吸收滤光片性能稳定,强度大,具有良好的应用性能.     

Production of calibration standards for x-ray fluorescence analysis of aerosol particles precipitated on different filter materials

Calibration results are presented for a method producing filter standards of two different materials. The first filter type is a membranous filter, the second a quartz fibre filter. Multielement solutions with predetermined elemental concentrations have been produced by an aerosol generator and preciptiated onto the respective filter materials. Additionally, the particle size-distribution in the aerosol generator, depending on the salt concentration in the nebulized solution, is presented.     

Production of calibration standards for x-ray fluorescence analysis of aerosol particles precipitated on different filter materials

Calibration results are presented for a method producing filter standards of two different materials. The first filter type is a membranous filter, the second a quartz fibre filter. Multielement solutions with predetermined elemental concentrations have been produced by an aerosol generator and preciptiated onto the respective filter materials. Additionally, the particle size-distribution in the aerosol generator, depending on the salt concentration in the nebulized solution, is presented.     

天然河床渗滤取水滤膜研究

滤膜在渗滤取水水质净化中起重要作用,其生长特点关系到工程能否持久运行。通过实验测试及工程监测数据分析了滤膜的微观物质组成、演化特点,提出了滤膜对净化水质的贡献和对滤水能力的影响。     

Chemical reactive filter paper prepared by radiation-induced graft polymerization—I

Chelating filter papers with chemically bonded amidoxime groups were synthesized by radiation-induced grafting of acrylonitrile onto filter paper (W3) followed by chemical treatment with hydroxylamine. The effect of grafting conditions such as absorbed dose, dose rate, monomer concentration and filter paper thickness on the grafting yield was studied. It was found that the degree of grafting increases with increasing absorbed dose and dose rate, and then tends to level off at high doses. The order of the dependence of the initial grafting rate on the dose is found to be of 0.33. An increasing monomer concentration was accompanied by a significant increase in grafting. At high monomer concentration the initial rate of grafting is fast followed by a slow rate. The rate of grafting is controlled by the filter paper thickness and the diffusion of monomer into the interior of the filter paper. Mechanical properties of the prepared filter paper were improved over the ungrafted paper. The amidoxime filter papers were examined for adsorption of uranium concentration ranging between 10–100 ppm.     

Filter design for molecular factor computing using wavelet functions

Molecular factor computing (MFC) is a new strategy that employs chemometric methods in an optical instrument to obtain analytical results directly using an appropriate filter without data processing. In the present contribution, a method for designing an MFC filter using wavelet functions was proposed for spectroscopic analysis. In this method, the MFC filter is designed as a linear combination of a set of wavelet functions. A multiple linear regression model relating the concentration to the wavelet coefficients is constructed, so that the wavelet coefficients are obtained by projecting the spectra onto the selected wavelet functions. These wavelet functions are selected by optimizing the model using a genetic algorithm (GA). Once the MFC filter is obtained, the concentration of a sample can be calculated directly by projecting the spectrum onto the filter. With three NIR datasets of corn, wheat and blood, it was shown that the performance of the designed filter is better than that of the optimized partial least squares models, and commonly used signal processing methods, such as background correction and variable selection, were not needed. More importantly, the designed filter can be used as an MFC filter in designing MFC-based instruments.     

超疏水滤纸的制备与应用

对SiO2纳米粒子进行硅烷化改性,再将其修饰到滤纸上,制备出静态水接触角＞150°的超疏水滤纸,对制备条件进行了优化。 用热重分析及扫描电子显微镜对超疏水滤纸表征后发现,二氧化硅纳米粒子在滤纸纤维表面形成一层包裹层,即纳米级粗糙结构,这种结构对滤纸的疏水性具有关键作用。 对滤纸的油水分离性能进行了研究,发现其对非均相体系和高粘度油水混合物具有很好的分离效果。     

Matched filtering with background suppression for improved quality of base peak chromatograms and mass spectra in liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry

A time domain filter that combines the properties of matched filtering and two-fold differentiation is presented. The filter coefficients are given by the second derivative of a Gaussian model peak, controlled by the setting of two parameters related to the chromatographic system. The fundamental characteristics of the filter were derived, and its applicability demonstrated for real liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) data. The filter is primarily intended as a fast pre-processing step, for a mass chromatogram with 320 scans over 700 mass channels the computation time was 0.6 s on a standard PC. Base peak chromatograms with improved peak detection capability and mass spectra useful for compound identification were obtained with filtered data. The most significant effect of the described filter is background reduction due to the differentiation, which in combination with the matched filter can be performed with maintained or even improved signal-to-noise ratio.     

Catalytic Coatings for Active and Passive Diesel Particulate Filter Regeneration

Summary. This paper will give an overview how catalytic coatings are applied in diesel particulate filter systems to support filter regeneration by soot oxidation with nitrogen dioxide or oxygen. Catalytic coatings can be placed on a catalyst substrate in front of a diesel particulate filter, on a filter, or in a combined system on both. Strategies and conditions for successful filter regeneration of those systems will be discussed.This revised version was published online in February 2005. In the previous version the issue was not marked as a special issue, and the issue title and the editor was missing     

One-dimensional Kalman filter in a robot system for total analysis of solid dosage formulations

A one-dimensional Kalman filter for peak resolution is applied to a totally automated robot system for liquid chromatographic analysis of solid dosage formulations. Sample solutions were prepared from four tablets of clemastine fumarate (1 mg/tablet) and injected automatically at regular, short intervals onto the column by the robot system. The overlapped peaks in the resulting complicated chromatogram were resolved and evaluated quantitatively by the one-dimensional filter. The peak-resolving powers are shown to be reliable by comparison with a multidimensional Kalman filter. The applicability of the whole analytical system with the linear Kalman filter is discussed.     

SWNT-MWNT hybrid filter attains high viral removal and bacterial inactivation

We describe the concept and demonstrate the efficacy of a novel SWNT-MWNT hybrid filter for the removal and inactivation of microbial pathogens from water. The filter is composed of a thin SWNT layer (0.05 mg cm(-2)) on top of a thicker MWNT layer (0.27 mg cm(-2)) supported by a microporous support membrane. The SWNT-MWNT filter exhibits high log removal of several model viruses (MS2, PRD1, and T4 bacteriophages) by depth filtration, which predominantly takes place in the thicker and more uniform MWNT layer. The filter removes all bacteria by a sieving mechanism, with the top SWNT layer providing high levels of inactivation of model bacteria (Escherichia coli K12 and Staphylococcus epidermidis), as well as microbes from river water and treated wastewater effluent. The dual-layer SWNT-MWNT filter lays the framework for new possibilities in point-of-use water filtration.     

Trapping of volatile iodine by an activated carbon fiber filter

Model experiments for a simple and effective trapping device of volatile iodine that is generated during radioiodination of biomacromolecules were performed using an activated carbon fiber filter. Over 99.9% of the radioactivity was trapped by the first sheet, when a stream of the volatile radioactive iodine was passed through the layer consisting of several sheets of carbon fiber filter of pore-size 2nm preceded by two or three sheets of urethane foam filter to eliminate the water vapor. Since the carbon fiber filter has very little resistance to the gas flow, the device seems applicable to the small filter chamber for the radioiodination hood.     

氧化还原沉淀法制备Mn-Ce-Co-Ox/PPS滤料及其低温SCR活性

先用十二烷基硫酸钠（SDS）对聚苯硫醚（PPS）滤料进行表面改性,随后通过氧化还原沉淀法制得不同质量比的Mn-Ce-Co-O_x/PPS复合滤料。考察了复合滤料在低温选择性催化还原（SCR）反应过程中的催化活性,并通过XRD、FESEM、TEM和XPS等表征手段对复合滤料的结构及性能进行表征分析。结果表明,Mn-Ce-Co-O_x/PPS复合滤料在120-160 ℃时的脱硝效率达到86%-100%,明显优于超声法制备的Mn-Ce-Co-O_x/PPS-UM复合滤料的低温SCR活性,且1.2Mn-Ce-Co-O_x/PPS复合滤料的活性最优。1.2Mn-Ce-Co-O_x/PPS复合滤料中MnO₂、Ce₂O₃、CeO₂、CoO、Co₃O₄以蜂窝状形式均匀分散在PPS纤维表面,且呈弱结晶性结构;其较高的Ce³⁺/（Ce³⁺+Ce⁴⁺）比值和Co元素浓度是该1.2Mn-Ce-Co-O_x/PPS复合滤料具有优异低温SCR活性的主要原因。此外,与Mn-Ce-Co-O_x/PPS-UM复合滤料相比,1.2Mn-Ce-Co-O_x/PPS复合滤料也具有良好的抗H₂O和抗SO₂性能。     

Two general methods for the isolation of enzyme activities by colony filter screening

We describe two general methodologies, based on filter-sandwich assays, for isolating enzymatic activities from a large repertoire of protein variants expressed in the cytoplasm of E. coli cells. The enzymes are released by the freezing and thawing of bacterial colonies grown on a porous master filter and diffuse to a second "reaction" filter that closely contacts the master filter. Reaction substrates can be immobilized either on the filter or on the enzyme itself (which is then, in turn, captured on the reaction filter). The resulting products are detected with suitable affinity reagents. We used biotin ligase as a model enzyme to assess the performance of the two methodologies. Active enzymes were released by the bacteria, locally biotinylated the immobilized target substrate peptide, and allowed the sensitive and specific detection of individual catalytically active colonies.     

Study of properties of the glass batch melting filter dust

The filter dust from the container glass production was studied by the X-Ray powder diffraction, differential thermal analysis (DTA), X-Ray fluorescent spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy. The analysis of the elemental composition indicated that the major portion (≈96 wt%) of filter dust is comprised of sulfates. Predominant abundance of sodium sulfate was confirmed by comparative DTA of investigated filter dust. The characteristic redox property (COD—Chemical Oxygen Demand) was determined. The raw materials used in manufacturing of container glass in Vetropack Nem?ová with 0, 25, 50, 75 or 100 wt% of filter dust as a substitution of sulfate raw material were used for the preparation of samples of glass batch. Thermal properties of prepared samples were characterized by means of DTA. The substitution of sulfate raw material by filter dust does not significantly affect the thermal properties of the examined glass batches and consequently the course of the glass melting.     

Analysis of odorous compounds in water by isolation by closed-loop stripping with a multichannel silicone rubber trap followed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

An alternative technique for the isolation and concentration of odorous compounds found in potable water is described. The method currently employed by water authorities is closed-loop stripping with the collection of these substances on a small activated carbon filter. The compounds of interest are then extracted from the carbon using a suitable solvent. The authors offer a multichannel silicone rubber trap as an alternative to the carbon filter. The absorbed compounds are thermally desorbed from the trap, directly on to the gas chromatographic column for analysis by GC-MS, thereby eliminating the solvent extraction step required by the carbon filter. The multichannel silicone rubber trap, producing equivalent results, offers a number of advantages over the carbon filter.     

Reduction of Breakdown Pressure by Filter Cake Removal Using Thermochemical Fluids and Solvents: Experimental and Numerical Studies

The process of well cleanup involves the removal of an impermeable layer of filter cake from the face of the formation. The inefficient removal of the filter cake imposes difficulty on fracturing operations. Filter cake’s impermeable features increase the required pressure to fracture the formation. In this study, a novel method is introduced to reduce the required breakdown pressure to fracture the formation containing the water-based drilling fluid filter cake. The breakdown pressure was tested for five samples of similar properties using different solutions. A simulated borehole was drilled in the core samples. An impermeable filter cake using barite-weighted drilling fluid was built on the face of the drilled hole of each sample. The breakdown pressure for the virgin sample without damage (filter cake) was 6.9 MPa. The breakdown pressure increased to 26.7 MPa after the formation of an impermeable filter cake. Partial removal of filter cake by chelating agent reduced the breakdown pressure to 17.9 MPa. Complete dissolution of the filter cake with chelating agents resulted in the breakdown pressure approximately equivalent to the virgin rock breakdown pressure, i.e., 6.8 MPa. The combined thermochemical and chelating agent solution removed the filter cake and reduced the breakdown pressure to 3.8 MPa. Post-treatment analysis was carried out using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and scratch test. NMR showed the pore size redistributions with good communication between different pores after the thermochemical removal of filter cake. At the same time, there was no communication between the different pores due to permeability impairment after filter cake formation. The diffusion coupling through NMR scans confirmed the higher interconnectivity between different pores systems after the combined thermochemical and chelating agent treatment. Compressive strength was measured from the scratch test, confirming that filter cake formation caused added strength to the rock that impacts the rock breakdown pressure. The average compressive strength of the original specimen was 44.5 MPa that increased to 73.5 MPa after the formation of filter cake. When the filter cake was partially removed, the strength was reduced to 61.7 MPa. Complete removal with chelating agents removed the extra strength that was added due to the filter cake presence. Thermochemical and chelating agents resulted in a significantly lower compressive strength of 25.3 MPa. A numerical model was created to observe the reduction in breakdown pressure due to the thermochemical treatment of the filter cake. The result presented in this study showed the engineering applications of thermochemical treatment for filter cake removal.     

Comparison of robust regression methods based on least-median and adaptive kalman filtering approaches applied to linear calibration data

Five algorithms for data analysis are evaluated for their abilities to discriminate against outliers in small data sets (4–10 points). These methods included least-squares regression, the least absolute -deviation method, the least median of squares method, and two techniques based on an adaptive Kalman filter. For data sets consisting of 4–9 points with one outlier, the average errors in the estimation of the slope were found to be 18.9 % by least-squares, 17.7% by the least absolute deviation method, 0.5% by the least median of squares algorithm, 9.1% by an adaptive Kalman filter algorithm, and 0.9% by a zero-lag adaptive Kalman filter algorithm. Based on these results, the conclusion is that the zero-lag adaptive Kalman filter and the least median of squares approaches are best suited for the detection of outliers in small calibration data sets.     

含聚浓度对轴向动态反冲洗法过滤和反冲洗效能影响*

利用轴向动态反冲洗法处理含聚污水,研究考察了聚合物浓度对滤层阻力损失、油和悬浮物去除效能、反冲洗强度、反冲洗历时、及滤料反洗再生效能的影响规律。结果表明,聚合物浓度可以减少滤层成熟时间,过滤后期滤层阻力增长率大。含聚浓度对过滤效能影响较小,油和悬浮物去除率达到95.67 %和80.87%以上。聚合物浓度对反冲洗过程影响较大,通过提高反冲洗强度和增加反冲洗历时可以消除聚合物浓度对反冲洗过程的影响,反冲洗强度为10.5L/s.m₂和反冲洗历时22.0~25.0min时滤料可以获得较好的反洗再生效果,反冲洗后核桃壳滤料油量为0.21~1.34 mg(油)/g(干核桃壳)。