Online ISSN : 1884-6440
Print ISSN : 0385-1036
ISSN-L : 0385-1036
33 巻, 5 号
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特集 : 日本膜学会第30年会特別講演
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  • 楠見 明弘, 鈴木 健一
    2008 年 33 巻 5 号 p. 194-200
    発行日: 2008年
    公開日: 2015/06/14
    ジャーナル オープンアクセス
    In recent years, “raft hypothesis”, in which hypothetical membrane domains, called lipid raft domains, might act as platforms where signaling molecules are assembled for their interactions and functions in/on the plasma membrane. Using single–molecule tracking, we have found such domains are only formed on–demand upon stimulation–induced clustering of receptors that can be associated with raft domains. Furthermore, signaling molecules are recruited to such induced rafts transiently (of the order of 0.1 s). Therefore, in this review, we propose that raft–related bulk intracellular signals that tend to last over 1000 s might be pulse coded or frequency modulated by the pulse–like digital activation of individual molecules, and that the intensity of the bulk signal might mainly be determined by the number of pulses at a given time. Such on–demand rafts are considered to be involved in bovine spongiform encephalopathy development, HIV infection, and Alzheimer disease pathogenesis, and this finding sheds new light on these processes.
特集 生体膜関連シンポジウム「手法で語る生体膜研究…今昔」
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特集 人工膜関連シンポジウム「水処理・気体分離膜技術開発の現状と今後の課題」
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  • 植村 忠廣, 谷口 雅英
    2008 年 33 巻 5 号 p. 233-238
    発行日: 2008年
    公開日: 2015/06/14
    ジャーナル オープンアクセス
    The water shortage and pollution have been in serious situation in the world, especially in Asia and Africa, and willbe more serious in USA, China and EU in the near future. In order to solve such water problems, rseverse osmosis(RO) and nanofiltration (NF) membranes have been developed and applied for the production of safe water. ROmembranes were developed in 1960’sfor seawater desalination, and improved for the higher performance and thelower cost, which realized large number of RO desalination plants to produce drinking water such as in the MiddleEast, Caribbean Islands, and the Mediterranean. In addition, the new RO membranes with low fouling propertieswere developed recently, and have been applied to the wastewater reclamation plants. On the other hand, NF mem-branes have been used for softening the hard water and for removing the toxic materialssuch as organic solvent andagricultural chemicals in the environment. The RO and NF membranes are expected to improve for the higher per-formance such as selectivity, water permeability and durability, which enables the lower cost water treatment, and itwill be achieved by the advanced polymer science and processing technologies.
  • 久保田 昇
    2008 年 33 巻 5 号 p. 239-246
    発行日: 2008年
    公開日: 2015/06/14
    ジャーナル オープンアクセス
    In this paper, I mention that how wide MF/UF technologies are used in many industries all over the world, the rea-son why MF/UF technologies are used in various industrial field, and future vision of MF/UF technologies in orderto contribute more strongly to the human life and the earth environment. The main reasons why MF/UF technolo-gies are expanding in many applications are follows; (1) MF/UF process is energy–saving process compared withother separation process such as distillation process, (2) by using MF/UF process, proteins does not denature withheating because MF/UF process does not require phase conversion, (3) in several cases, MF/UF technology is actu-ally the only one way at this moment to remove impurities such as micro–particles in ultra–pure water in semiconduc-tor field, and (4) MF/UF process can keep better water quality than conventional sand filtration process in the drink-ing water production. As mentioned above, I believe MF/UF technologies are useful and necessary for the earth in21stcentury. In order to reply the expectations, we must develop MF/UF technologies from the viewpoint as follows;(1) progress of economical efficiency, (2) thinking about not only membrane element but also total separation sys-tem.
  • 喜多 英敏
    2008 年 33 巻 5 号 p. 247-253
    発行日: 2008年
    公開日: 2015/06/14
    ジャーナル オープンアクセス
    This paperreviews the recent research and development of gas separation membranes. Gas separation propertiesbased on the relationship with the structure–property ofpolymeric materials are summarized and recent advances innew materials attemptingto create a molecular sieving property in order to improve the membrane performance aredescribed.
原著
  • 赤松 憲樹, 森谷 典子, 藤田 昌大, 中尾 真一
    2008 年 33 巻 5 号 p. 254-260
    発行日: 2008年
    公開日: 2015/06/14
    ジャーナル オープンアクセス
    Two–dimensional simulations for elucidating the mechanism of fouling phenomena due to particulates in dead–endmembrane filtration were described in this paper. In this simulation model, both the motion of particles and the fluidflow were simultaneously computed based on a Newtonian dynamics and the fluctuating Navier–Stokes equation,accounting for a variety of particle–to–particle and particle–to–membrane interactions, and particle–to–liquid hydro-dynamic interaction. In terms of particle property, the simulation results indicated that smaller magnitude of zetapotential set off aggregation and adhesion onto the membrane surface, resulting in severe fouling. Additionally interms of membrane structure and running conditions, it was elucidated that higher velocity of the fluid relative to thewall surfaces of the pores due to curved pore structures and due to larger pressure gradient caused severe fouling.Consequently we can conclude that it is effective to employ highly–charged membranes with straight pores and tooperate under low–pressure conditions for suppressing membrane fouling due to particulates or its aggregates adhe-sion.
製品&技術
  • 2008 年 33 巻 5 号 p. 261-263
    発行日: 2008年
    公開日: 2015/06/14
    ジャーナル オープンアクセス
    In the field of seawater desalination, the reverse osmosis (RO) method consumes less energy and has more com-pact facilities than the conventional evaporation method. Today, apart from applications relating to industry anddrinking water, it is also used for irrigation water and other agricultural uses, contributing thus to resolving watershortages. The proportion treated by the RO membrane method is also growing year by year. And the number ofseawater desalination plants equipped with boron-removal facilities is growing at a rate of over 50% a year and nowaccounts for 70% of all plants. We developed ES20B RO element that has the high boron rejection and alkali tolerance. This newly developed ele-ment can reduce the operation cost and the scale risk. In addition, the extension of the operation life can be expect-ed.
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