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In cooperation with Italian partners, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences recently developed a new type of anti-fouling coating on membranes with scalable retention to improve the quality of purified water while reducing the costs involved in cleaning, maintaining and replacing the membranes. Pore sizes and thus separation efficiency and chemical properties of the novel PBM coated membrane surface can be individually adjusted to the composition of the water to be purified. The PBM coated ultrafiltration membranes were successfully tested in membrane bioreactor (MBR) systems using real wastewater.

The new Soft Switching Three Level Inverter (S3L – Inverter) is of striking simplicity and is therefore inexpensive. Because of the underlying principle, it works without losses and thus with maximum efficiency. The inverter is easily controlled, has EMC friendly inherent di/dt- and du/dt limitation, and can be built using low-cost standard semiconductors.

Field of use: electric drives, solar power inverter, wind power inverter, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS).

The invention describes a process for the production of fiber-
reinforced aluminum foam. The composite has advantages
compared to the non-reinforced foam like higher mechanical
properties and greater stiffness. By the fibers the influence of
the non-homogeneous pore distribution can be reduced. Withe
respective reinforcement fibers the energy absorption can be
increased to without increasing the global density.

By implementing an axial hydro cyclone desilting can be done within the pressure pipe of hydropower plants.
The device produces a heavy swirling flow, the particles are carried radially outwards due to the centrifugal force and extracted after a short pathway.

The development of receptor tyrosine-kinase inhibitors (TKIs) in recent decades was a major step forward in cancer treatment. However, despite their clinical efficacy, therapy with TKIs is limited by strong side effects (such as skin rash) and development of resistance. New approaches are required
to overcome these drawbacks. Complexing the TK Inhibitor with Cobalt (Co3+) inactivates the inhibitor until it is released under the hypoxic conditions in the target tumour tissue. This approach promises effective treatment with considerably limited side effects. These complexes can be used as an alternative to existing
Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Inhibitors, and were effective in tumour cells that have become resistant to conventional Treatments due to EGFR mutations like T790M.

The bone drilling apparatus effectively prevents overheating of the bone tissue by individually adjusting the coolant supply to the heat developed during a procedure. It implements a real-time measurement device, drill and regulating device for the coolant
pumping system.