Membrane filtration unit and cassette, and method of making a membrane filtration unit.

摘要

A membrane filtration unit (6,42) comprises a stack (60) of rectangular membranes (61), arranged in pairs (62), where longitudinal edges of the membranes (61) define a surface, at which the interior (103) between the two membranes (61) of each pair (62) is open (at 104) in the entire length of the edges of the membranes, while the interior (105) between adjoining membranes (61) of each two consecutive pairs (62) is closed in a marginal zone by means of a cured binder (106). Advantageously, the stack (60) of membranes (61) may be enclosed in a cage-like structure, that may comprise a permeate collection chamber (70), solid end plates (65), a solid bottom plate (66) and supporting ribs (67) extending between the end plates. A membrane filtration cassette comprises a membrane filtration unit (6,42) as set forth above mounted in a cassette frame (1-5, 35-38). In a method of making a filtration unit as set forth above, envelope-shaped membrane units (62) are placed in a stack, a curable liquid binder (101) is introduced between the membrane units from at least one surface of the filtration unit to a predetermined depth (a), and upon curing of the binder a layer of the binder together with the marginal portions of the edges of the membrane units embedded therein is removed, such as by surface cutting or machining, up to a depth (b) smaller than the depth (a).