Kerasep® Mineral Membranes:

Our Solutions for your Cross-Flow Filtration Systems – your Benefits

Experience

With more than 40 years’ experience in purification process development, our team combines complementary talents to develop, design and offer optimized mineral membranes. We provide our filtration products from lab to industrial units ensuring easy and perfect process integration.

Versatility

We offer a broad range of filtration systems with the largest range of hydraulic diameter and cut-offs for micro and ultrafiltration, which can solve your key processing challenges: viscosity, molecule size, yield, reliability… 

Innovation

Over the past years, we have developed and launched many Kerasep® membranes to meet your evolving needs: the Kerasep® Diamond (BX, BH, BW) offers increased mechanical resistance; the new BE-Evolution provides improved channel/filtration area ratio for viscous liquids; and lastly, the new BK-Kompact provides the first honeycomb system for non-viscous fluids, with increased filtration area.

Typical Applications for Cross-Flow Filtration Systems

Our Kerasep® membranes are particularly suited to the following applications:

• Bulk fermentation (antibiotics, food additives, ferments, enzymes … )
• Milk and dairy products
• Sugars, sweeteners and derivatives
• Beverages (beer, wine, water, fruit juice … )
• Highly demanding pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical (vaccines) applications

Kerasep® Ceramic Membranes – Product Line

Name	BX	BE-Evolution	BW	BH	BK-Kompact
1 kD
5 kD
15 kD
50 kD
150 kD
300 kD
0.1 µm
0.2 µm
0.45 µm
0.8 µm

 

Name	BX	BE-Evolution	BW	BH	BK-Kompact
Number of Channels	7	8	19	31	44
Hydraulic Diameter (mm)	6	4.8	3.5	2.9	2.2
Filtration Area/ Monolith (m²)	0.15	0.21	0.25	0.34	0.50
Support	Monolithic  TiO2 - Al2O3
External Diameter/Length (mm)	25 /1178
Layers	ZrO2/TiO2
Bursting Pressure (bar)	> 80
Standard Service Pressure (bar)	6
Chemical Resistance	pH: 0-14 Compatible with all organic solvents (e.g.: ethanol, methanol, phenol resistance)
Sterilization – SIP	High pressure hot water up to 121°C
CIP Conditions	NaOH, HNO3, O3, NaClO,
Standard Process Temperature	up to 80°C
Quality	FDA approved materials, full documentation for cGMP

We also design, build and sell optimized modules and systems incorporating our mineral membranes.

Novasep Services for your Ingredient Process Development

We combine the complementary talents of chemical and process engineers as well as agrochemists to offer our expertise in process development services to help you solve your purification challenges.

Download our brochures for ingredient purification and production (bulk, food, functional).

For any questions on Novasep's purification/separation services and equipment for industrial biotech applications, please contact us.