Customer Value
CMS products enable large industrial capital-intensive operations to reduce risk, increase yield, lower costs, and operate in a greener, cleaner, and more efficient way: enabling the economic viability of newly emerging renewable sources of energy, and improving the efficiency and safety of the existing energy and industrial infrastructure.

CMS solutions are used in electrical generation, pharma synthesis, wind turbines, paper mills, nuclear power plants and more, each with products operating in mission critical applications.

CMS continues to address industry’s unmet needs in challenging separations with new product innovations, active research, and custom amorphous fluoropolymers.

Expertise
Technologically, CMS’ strength centers on membranes and thin films composed of highly fluorinated polymers with exceptional gas transport properties and chemical resistance, which provide performance and cost superiority to conventional alternatives.

CMS membranes are chemically compatible with a wide range of chemicals and are resistant to surface fouling. The polymer structure has a high free volume and can also be easily cast into very thin composite membranes (nonporous perfluoropolymer on a variety of porous supports) without sacrificing solute retention.

These two factors enable fabrication of membranes that provide a desirable combination of high permeation rates and high solute retention, minimizing membrane area requirements.

Customer Needs: Membrane Contactors
Many manufacturing processes require the separation of gases, removal of dissolved gases from liquids, or dispersion of gases into liquids. In addition to other technologies, CMS has developed membrane contactors specifically for gasification/degasification and dehydration applications. The highly gas permeable CMS membranes allow the application of either sweep gas or vacuum to remove unwanted gas or water vapors from liquids over a large surface area without the problems (bulkiness, foaming, material loss, channeling, pressure control, etc.) associated with mechanical gas-liquid contactors. Applications for gassing and degassing process fluids exist in dozens of industries and commercial areas including

energy & power production & distribution
semiconductor & microelectronics
food production and packaging
pollution control & environmental remediation
petroleum hydrocarbon processing
sterile humidification and dehumidification
feedstock and polymer chemical processes
fine chemicals
pharmaceutical & bioreactors
inkjet inks for commercial printing processes
micro-gravity
analytical

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