Program - ICOM 2008

Friday, July 18 – Afternoon Sessions
12:45PM Lunch Break
2:15PM
3:00PM
3:30PM
4:00PM
4:30PM
Pervaporation and
Vapor Permeation III
(Kaua’i)
Chair: Tadashi Uragami, Kansai
University, Japan
Co-Chair: Ivy Huang, Membrane
Technology and Research, Inc., USA
Vapor Permeation and Pervaporation
as Efficient Alternatives in the
Recovery of Fruit Aroma
Compounds
Ortiz, Diban, Urtiaga, University of
Cantabria, Stantander, Spain
Monitoring and Modelling of Aroma
Recovery from Fermentation Media
Using Pervaporation and
Fractionated Condensation
Brazinha, Teodoro, Crespo,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
Caparica, Portugal
Effect of Feed Solution
Characteristics on Flavour
Concentration by Pervaporation
Overington, Wong, Harrison, Institute of
Food, Nutrition and Human Health,
Massey University, Palmerston North,
New Zealand
Ferreira, Fonterra Co-Operative Group,
Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand
Concentration of Bioethanol by
Porous Hydrophobic Membranes
Uragami, Kansai University, Osaka,
Japan
Treatment of Gas Containing
Hydrophobic VOCs by a Hybrid
Absorption-Pervaporation Process:
The Case of Toluene
Carretier, Moulin, Université Paul
Cézanne Aix Marseille, Provence,
France
Heymes, Manno-Demoustier, Fanlo,
LGEI, Ecole des Mines d’Ales, Ales,
France
Drinking and
Wastewater
Applications V
(Maui)
Chair: Daniel Yeh, University of
South Florida, USA
Co-Chair: Chuyang Tang, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
The Development of a Household
Ultrafiltration System for Developing
Countries
Peter-Varbanets, Vital, Hammes,
Pronk, Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute
of Aquatic Science and Technology,
Duebendorf, Switzerland
Treatment Performance and
Detoxification of Coke Plant
Wastewater Using an Anaerobic-
Anoxic-Oxic Membrane Bioreactor
System
Zhao, Huang, Lee, He, Division of
Water Environment, Department of
Environmental Science and
Engineering, Taiwan
Time Course of Sub-Micron Organic
Matter in MBRs: Relation to
Membrane Fouling in MBRs
Kimura, Yamato, Miyoshi, Naruse,
Watanabe, Hokkaido University,
Sapporo, Japan
On the Lookout for A Fouling
Indicator A Critical Evaluation of
Various Methods for Fouling
Characterisation in MBR
Drews, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Importance of Membrane Reactor
Design for Membrane Performance
in Biofilm-MBR
Ivanovic, NTNU- Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, Trondheim,
Norway
Fuel Cells III
(Moloka’i)
Chair: James McGrath, Virginia
Tech, USA
Co-Chair: Michael Guiver, National
Research Council of Canada, Canada
Crystalline Order and Membrane
Properties in Perfluorosulfonate
Ionomers for PEMFC Applications
Moore, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg,
Virginia, USA
Model Studies of the
Characterization of the Durability of
Nafion® Membranes and
Nafion/Inorganic Oxide
Nanocomposite Membranes
Mauritz, Hassan, Patil, Rhoades,
University of Southern Mississippi
PBI Polymers for High Temperature
PEM Fuel Cells
Benicewicz, University of South
Carolina, USA
Novel Electrolytes for Fuel Cell
Electrodes
Muldoon, Hase, Toyota Motor
Engineering & Manufacturing, Ann
Arbor, Michigan, USA
Pintauro, Lin, Wycisk, Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio,
USA
Effect of Hydrocarbon Ionomer on
Electrochemical Performance of
MEA for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell
(DMFC)
Lee, Lee, Lee, School of Chemical
Engineering, Hanyang University,
Korea
Ultra- and
Microfiltration III -
Membranes
(Honolulu/Kahuku)
Chair: Willem Kools, Millipore, Inc.,
USA
Co-Chair: Andrew Zydney, The
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Pilot-scale Integrity Monitoring of
Microfiltration Processes Using a
Novel Multi-membrane Sensor
Wong, Wai, Su, Advanced Water and
Membrane Centre, Institute of
Environmental Science, Singapore
Fane, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore
Phattanarawik, Norwegian Univ. of Sci.
and Tech., Norway
Integrity Monitoring for Membrane
Bioreactor Systems through
Turbidity and SDI Measurement
Zha, Kippax, Phelps, Nguyen, Siemens
Water Techologies, South Windsor,
Australia
Membrane Characterisation :
Assessment of the Bacterial
Removal Efficiency
LeBleu, Causserand, Roques, Aimar,
Université de Toulouse, Toulouse,
France
Pore Size Determination of UF and
MF Membranes By Streaming
Potential Measurement
Nakamura, Yokohama National
University, Yokohama, Japan
Acoustic Investigation of Porous and
Membrane Structures
Wyart, Bonnet, Moulin, Université Paul
Cézanne Aix Marseille, Provence,
France
Leoni, Allouche, Ecole Centrale,
Marseille, France
5:00PM Ellipsometric Observation of
Ceramic Membranes
Wyart, Tamime, Siozade, Deumie,
Moulin, Université Paul Cézanne Aix
Marseille, Provence, France
Membrane Contactors
(O’ahu/Waialua)
Chair: Pierre Cote, Vaperma, Canada
Co-Chair: Kitty Nijmeijer,
University of Twente, The
Netherlands
Modelling Aroma Stripping Under
Various Forms of Membrane
Distillation Processes
Jonsson, Technical University of
Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Membrane Extraction for Acetic Acid
and Lignin Removal from Biomass
Hydrolysates
Wickramasinghe, Grzenia, Colorado
State University, Fort Collins, Colorado,
USA
Schell, National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA
Operational Flexibility of Gas-Liquid
Membrane Contactors for CO 2
Separation
Fischbein, Nijmeijer, Wessling,
University of Twente, Enschede, The
Netherlands
Effect of Spacer, Baffled and
Modified Hollow Fiber Geometries in
the Membrane Distillation Process
Chung, Bonyadi, Teoh, National
University of Singapore, Singapore
Gryta, Szczecin University of
Technology, Szczecin, Poland
Direct Contact Membrane
Distillation: Studies on Novel Hollow
Fiber Membranes, Devices,
Countercurrent Cascades and
Scaling
Sirkar, Song, Lee, He, Li, Kosaraju,
New Jersey Institute of Technology,
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Gilron, Zuckerberg Institute for Water
Research, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Ma, Liao, Irish, United Technologies
Research Center, East Hartford,
Connecticut
MEMFRAC - A New Approach to
Membrane Distillation
Sanchez, TNO (Netherlands
Organisation for Applied Scientific
Research), Delft, The Netherlands
Packaging and Barrier
Materials
(Wai’anae)
Chair: Anne Hiltner, Case Western
Reserve University, USA
Co-Chair: Eric Baer, Case Western
Reserve University, USA
New Developments in the
Measurement of Multi-Component
Sorption in Barrier Polymer
Materials: A Key Step Towards the
Modeling of Fuel Tank Permeability
Jonquieres, Clement, Kanaan, Lenda,
Lochon, Nancy Universite, Nancy
France
Brule, Arkema, Serquigny, France
Fundamental Exploration of Metal-
Catalyzed Oxidation in Styrene-
Butadiene-Styrene Block
Copolymers
Tung, Ferrari, Li, Ashcraft, Freeman,
Paul, The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, Texas, USA
The Effect of Reaction Conditions on
Oxidation of Metal-catalyzed
Poly(1,4-butadiene)
Li, Tung, Freeman, The University of
Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Stewart, Jenkins, Global PET
Technology, Eastman Chemical
Company, Kingsport, Tennessee, USA
On the Nature of Gas Barrier of
Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol Copolymers
Nazarenko, Chigwada, Brandt, Olson,
University of Southern Mississippi,
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
Jamieson, Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Confined Crystallization of PEO in
Nanolayered Films for Improved Gas
Barrier
Wang, Hiltner, Baer, Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio,
USA
Freeman, The University of Texas at
Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Relationship between Biaxial
Orientation and Oxygen Permeability
of Polypropylene Film
Lin, Dias, Hiltner, Baer, Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio,
USA
Chen, The Dow Chemical Company,
Freeport, Texas, USA