West Palm Beach, Fla., February 21, 2024 – PSP.US, Inc. will showcase its PolyCera® organic metal membranes at the 2024 Membrane Technology Conference & Exhibition, Booth #105. The event takes place on March 4-7 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, West Palm Beach, Florida.

Developed in the U.S., PolyCera membranes employ Nobel Prize-winning technology that provides highly robust and reliable performance characteristics at a better cost-benefit comparable with that of leading polymeric and ceramic membranes. In 2020, following the successful product launch of PolyCera ultrafiltration and nanofiltration membrane products, the assets of PolyCera, Inc. were acquired by PSP.US, Inc. However, this timing coincided with the rise, spread, and fall-out from COVID-19 and declaration of a pandemic by the World Health Organization in 2020.

“The COVID pandemic caused us to temporarily delay our plans to market these differentiated and highly effective organic metal membranes around the world. Instead, we concentrated our sales efforts on China during the pandemic. While not what we had envisioned, this yielded a great opportunity to closely observe and listen to the market and our customers. As a result, we gained valuable insights and leveraged these findings in keeping with our commitment to ongoing improvement and innovation in our technology and products,” said Jinwen Wang, Vice President of Product, PSP.US, Inc.

In 2023, the cumulative installed capacity of PolyCera membranes rose from 10 MGD in 2022 to 30 MGD, and according to Mr. Wang, the outlook for 2024 is very strong. “We now look forward to reintroducing PolyCera Membranes to the North American market and ultimately, growing our business around the world,” he added.

Manufactured in California, PolyCera membranes are available in three product lines:

• The Hydro ultrafiltration (UF) product line delivers high fouling and chemical resistance. These membranes are suitable for industrial wastewater treatment for suspended solids removal, with up to 10,000 mg/L suspended solids. Features include a high sustainable flux, fouling resistance, and easy cleaning. PolyCera Hydro UF membranes provide a low-cost, stable process opportunity that yields a high-quality treatment product for OEMs, integrators and owners/operators.
• The Titan series oil tolerant UF membranes is designed for oily water treatment due to their oil tolerance of up to 3% oils. PolyCera Titan membranes enable a shorter treatment process, a smaller footprint and better treatment efficiency. They have been used in a variety of oily water treatment regimens, such as produced water and industrial process condensate.
• PolyCera Titan nanofiltration (NF) membranes feature sub-nanometer pore size with MWCO of 500 Da to 1,000 Da. Titan NF is designed for chemical-free color removal (typical rejection >99%) while allowing ~0% salt rejection, due to its low charged surface.

PolyCera membranes have been used in a number of markets and projects including: Clean Energy (e.g., Lithium extraction, solar panel production including ultrapure water production and wastewater recycling); Fossil Fuel Energy (e.g., coal mine wastewater, oil pipeline terminal station, produced water treatment for onshore and offshore oilfield, petroleum refinery plant wastewater treatment, hydraulic fracturing wastewater treatment); Industrial Wastewater (e.g., high saline Zero Liquid Discharge process, cellulose and PVDF production process wastewater, semiconductor production wastewater, cooling tower blowdown, palm oil production wastewater and dairy wastewater); Process Separation (e.g., pharmaceutical separation process, humic acid production process, fermentation broth concentration process and protein concentration process), and Municipal Water and Wastewater Treatment.