Upper Arlington city officials hope spending more than $60,000 on a new PVC membrane system for Devon Pool will extend its life by at least a decade and reduce potential safety hazards for swimmers.

Filtering water is an incredibly important process, but it's not as simple as it seems. As the pores in a membrane inevitably get clogged with material, it takes time and energy to clean or replace ...

Researchers are developing a new filter membrane that is highly efficient at filtering and inactivating a wide variety of air-borne and water-borne viruses. Researchers at ETH Zurich are developing a ...

Switzerland-based university ETH Zurich announced last month that its researchers had developed a new water filtration system that efficiently removes a number of toxic heavy metal ions and ...

Scientists have known for years that membranes can do things such as act as a filter for saltwater. When salty ocean water is moved through a membrane, clean water comes out the other side that can be ...

Filtering and treating water accounts for about 13 percent of all electricity consumed in the US every year and releases about 290 million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually. New research ...

High-performing water filtration systems — necessary for reducing water scarcity — can also reduce cost and energy consumption, a new Northwestern University-led analysis finds. In the new study, ...

Mia Heller of Virginia said she got the idea after learning that government agencies were not funding filtration programs Mia Heller/YouTube; A high schooler in Virginia invented a home filtration ...

(Nanowerk News) Micropollutants in water often are hormones that accumulate in the environment and may have negative impacts on humans and animals. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ...

Viruses can spread not only via droplets or aerosols like the new coronavirus, but in water, too. In fact, some potentially dangerous pathogens of gastrointestinal diseases are water-borne viruses. To ...

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