Our R&D budget is committed to problems our clients have described but nobody has solved yet — which is a slower path than product-line extension, and a more useful one.
Characterisation and development of filtration media — pore structure, surface energy, fibre morphology and their effect on retention and dirt-holding.
Computational work on droplet coalescence, particle capture mechanisms and flow distribution, validated against physical rigs.
Purification for electrolyser and fuel cell systems, where purity thresholds and material behaviour differ fundamentally from hydrocarbon practice.
Turning differential pressure and flow data into change-out forecasts, so filtration becomes planned work rather than reactive work.
Reducing the lifetime environmental cost of filtration through longer service life, lower pressure drop and recyclable construction.
Qualification of sintered metal, ceramic and fluoropolymer systems for temperatures and chemistries beyond conventional media.
Published because clients ask what is coming, and because collaborators occasionally recognise their own problem in the list.
An element in which media, core, cage and end caps are all the same polymer, so the spent cartridge is a single-stream recyclable rather than a composite going to landfill.
Six-month field trial on three client sites, concluding Q4 2026.
A model that classifies the shape of the differential pressure curve to distinguish blinding from bypass and forecast change-out date three to five weeks ahead.
Validating against 14 instrumented installations across four industries.
Coalescing media for alkaline electrolyser product gas that survives the electrolyte carryover without degradation or contaminant contribution.
In qualification with two European electrolyser manufacturers.
Sintered 316L elements with a thermal regeneration cycle, targeting semiconductor abatement duties where consumable change-out is a contamination event.
Cycle-life testing to 500 regenerations underway.
Collaboration
Most of our useful research started as a client problem that had no catalogue answer. Where the problem is general enough to matter beyond one site, we will fund a share of the programme in exchange for the right to commercialise the result.
Terms are agreed before work starts: who owns what, who may publish, what stays confidential and how long exclusivity runs. We have never had a dispute about it, because the document exists first.
What we look for
A measurable failure
Something currently going wrong that can be quantified before and after.
Access to the real stream
Laboratory surrogates rarely reproduce what actually fouls a filter.
Generality beyond one plant
If it only ever applies to one site, it is engineering work, not research.
Patience for a real timeline
Media development and qualification take twelve to thirty months. There is no shortcut.
Research
If it is measurable, general and you can give us access to the real stream, there is a good chance we will fund part of the work.
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