Can You Find Novel Applications for a New Membrane Technology?
Calling all innovators and creative smarts. IdeaConnection has a fascinating innovation contest for you to get stuck into, from Strategic Allies.
The UK-based company is looking for novel applications for a new membrane material in a few specific industrial sectors of interest: automotive, packaging and dosing. If your solution is selected, €1,000 (approx. $US 1,000) is yours.
This is a unique PTFE-based microporous membrane technology that is gas permeable and liquid tight with adjustable elasticity and/or 3D mouldable. For more information about the innovation, click here.
Potential application areas may include (but are not limited to):
- Pressure stabilisation / emergency outgassing
Selective gas filtration
Reactive product packaging
Closed system chemical dosing with gas release / entry
Enabling technology for use with pneumatic, hydraulic & vacuum technologies
Acoustic protection
Sensor protection
Fluid transfer
Moisture removal / reducing condensation
Hot bottling
Microfiltration / dynamic filtration
To enter the contest, click here. The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2015. Good luck!
Even More Contests
This is just one of several third party contests covering numerous fields that are currently featured on IdeaConnection’s website. Among them is a search for new ideas in the passenger world, which offers an award of $45,000 and the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition.
The page is constantly updated, so if you don’t see a contest that matches your skills, knowledge and interests, come back from time to time to discover what’s available.
Reader Comments
I remember reading that dairy farmers were covering the cow excrement with a membrane to control methane. These tarps were filling up like balloons with methane. If you could use this product in the middle of the original membrane and a tank could you capture the methane for fuel?
Posted by Nate Wightman on October 17, 2015
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