Hardware, high technology

There are many technical problems to be considered when developing a new commercial and viable filter. However, the filtration hardware in itself is not enough, as the control of a continuous pressure filter is much more difficult than that of its equivalents in vacuum filtration the necessary development may also include an automatic, computerized control system. This moves pressure filtration from low to medium or even high technology. Disk Filters. 

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A viable real-time recording disk medium was developed in the mid 1980s, which became known as WORM (Write Once Read Many). However, there was no common standard for the medium, hence media produced by different manufacturers were incompatible, each requiring its own unique hardware. It is therefore not surprising that growth in this area was restricted and prices remained high.196 This is in direct contrast to the industry-wide standards which helped lead to the successful introduction of CD technology. 

Operation of cells at higher temperatures such as 80°C, as in membrane fuel cells, is not encouraged here because of the corrosion instability of the hardware, manufactured from titanium or titanium alloy. Even without such constraints, however, this high temperature would be unwelcome as the water produced is present as steam - without the conductive bridge of the liquid phase it would be necessary to bond the catalytic particles to the membrane with all the associated problems of technology and cost. 

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