Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry offers consumers membrane equipment for ultra- and nanofiltration, filter materials and water purification units under a manufacturing agreement and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

A new reagent-free technology for cleaning aquatic environments has been developed, the key element of which is membrane units for ultra- and nanofiltration.

Automated modular membrane units provide continuous purification of surface and underground waters from colloidal, microbiological contaminants and high-molecular substances with a molecular weight of more than 100 kDa. Their operating principle is low-pressure dead-end ultrafiltration in combination with contact coagulation. Regeneration of membrane elements is carried out by backwashing and is fully automated.

A description of membrane technology (micro- and ultrafiltration) and membrane characteristics, water purification units based on filter elements developed by IFOC, a description of household filters for water purification can be found on the Institute's website in the section "Polymer membranes for separation of aqueous media MIFIL".

Information is posted in  Album of promising developments of the NAS of Belarus organizations for the real sector of the economy (2023), p. 167-168. (in Russian)

The water purification process is characterized by low reagent and energy consumption, compactness of the equipment, ease of its installation, simplicity in management and control of the water purification process. The modular design of the unit
allows to increase the capacity of the equipment used. Membrane technologies provide reliable barrier filtration, allow to obtain the necessary quality indicators in one stage of water treatment.

Advantages:
- independence of qualitative and quantitative purification indicators from temperature and seasonal fluctuations in the composition of surface waters;
- automatic disc filtration system AZUD as part of the unit provides additional protection of membrane elements from suspended mechanical particles;
- environmental factor: no additional salinization of waste water;
- reduction of capital and operating costs.

Provides a full replacement for products from foreign suppliers:
Microdyn-Nadir (Germany), Alfa Laval (Denmark), Millipore (USA), KOCH Separation solutions (USA), Hydranautics (USA), Nitto Group Company (Japan), Inge (Germany), X-Flow-Pentair (Netherlands), Toray Industries (USA), Norit Membrane Technologies (Netherlands).

The developed membrane equipment is safe for use in the food and pharmaceutical industries.

The advantages of using the developed membrane equipment for ultra- and nanofiltration also include the absence of phase transitions, low energy consumption, relative simplicity of hardware design, virtually reagent-free operation, the possibility of combining with other separation processes, ease of scaling and a high degree of automation.

Trademark "MIFIL"

The Institute is a world leader in the development, production and use of ion-exchange fibrous materials and artificial substrates for plant cultivation. The Institute's work in the field of membranes and membrane technologies is widely known. Membrane materials for ultra- and microfiltration in the form of continuous webs and capillaries, cassette, roll and hollow fiber elements for use in energy, food, pharmaceutical, electronic and other industries have been developed and manufactured.

The Institute's scientists have discovered and studied the reactions of: heterocyclization of azomethines with carbonyl compounds, hydroamination of oxygen-containing compounds, initiated decarboxylation of mercury acylates, construction of an isothiazole cycle from 2-nitropentachlorobutadiene and sulfur. Convenient methods for synthesizing benzoquinolines, amines, pyridines, organomercury compounds, electrochemical methods for obtaining p-complexes of transition metals, methods for synthesizing various functional substituted organohalogen compounds, carboranes and peroxides have been developed.

The catalysts developed at the Institute have been implemented at the largest chemical plants. An antiblock composition preventing cellophane film from sticking together during its production has been implemented on an industry-wide scale. An industrial radiation-chemical technology for obtaining the blood plasma substitutes "Rondeks" and "Neorondex" has been developed.

The Institute's activities are aimed at developing scientific principles and technologies for creating new polymeric materials with special properties (selectively permeable, sorption, ion-exchange, catalytically active) for use in industry, ecology, agriculture, water treatment; development of methods for the synthesis and technologies for obtaining medicinal substances based on amino acids and their derivatives, biologically active substances and compositions for medicine and agriculture, functionally substituted organic and organoelement compounds.

The Institute carries out international scientific and technical cooperation within the framework of direct agreements with scientific institutions of Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Sweden, China, etc. Much attention is paid to the implementation of contracts for the conduct of research and development work and the manufacture of high-tech commercial products based on its own developments with organizations and firms in Saudi Arabia, Germany, Korea, Russia, and the USA.

Consumers interested in purchasing membrane equipment for ultra and nanofiltration, filter materials and water purification units under a manufacturing agreement.

Partners interested in purchasing membrane equipment for ultra and nanofiltration, filter materials and water purification units under a distribution services agreement.