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Re: MFIC from another poster on another board:

By: bigearloil
19 Feb 2007, 06:19 AM EST
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New Key Oil Pipeline Drag Reduction Slurry Patent App.

Baker Hughes INC.(BHI) a $20 billion oil service company and MFIC (MFIC.OB)have come up with a major new pipeline drag reducing slurry using the MFIC Microfluidizer technology and processes.

From a recent Baker Hughes patent application:

This new polymer slurry "provides for optimum pipeline drag reduction" and also "serves as an anti-agglomeration agent".

"Preparation of the Size-Reduced Polymer Slurry

[0033] With respect to the size-reduced polymer slurries described herein, it will be appreciated that the terms "size-reduced" and "size reduction" contemplate a number of different or alternative processes for reducing the size of discrete bulk polymer pieces, whatever their size. Suitable size-reduction techniques include, but are not necessarily limited to, grinding, homogenizing, milling, shear processes (e.g. high shear material processors such as MICROFLUIDIZER.RTM. high shear processors of MFIC Corporation)"

This new slurry production method, as described, in the patent application is expected to result in significant, specially designed, large scale, production Microfluidizer orders from MFIC over the course of the next 2 years.

More information on this key breakthrough can be found in the following US Patent and Trademark office patent application web link.

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FP....

For a flash demo of the MFIC Microfluidizer see:
http://www.microfluidicscorp.com/microflash.html

MFIC CORPORATION

MFIC recently reported record quarterly sales and annual sales.

MFIC also signed a new 5 year lease for the Company's administrative, sales, and manufacturing facilities to allow for a major expansion and improvement of production space and operations and to commence construction on a new, upgraded Applications Laboratory.

MFIC Corporation, through its Microfluidics subsidiary, provides patented and proprietary high performance Microfluidizer® materials processing equipment to the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, chemical, cosmetics/personal care, and food industries. The equipment enables the manufacture and formulation of numerous nanomaterials and nanoscale products. MFIC applies its 20 years of high pressure processing experience to produce the most uniform and smallest liquid and suspended solid structures available, and has provided manufacturing systems for more than 15 years.

The Company is a leader in advanced materials processing equipment for laboratory, pilot scale and manufacturing applications, offering innovative technology and comprehensive solutions for nanoparticles and other materials processing and production. More than 3,000 systems are in use and afford significant competitive and economic advantages to MFIC equipment customers.


Baker Hughes

Pipeline drag reducers have proven to be an extremely powerful tool in fluid transportation. Baker Hughes Incorporated has developed a complete line of high molecular weight polymers to reduce the friction pressure loss in pipelines in a wide variety of applications.

By reducing the frictional pressure loss, FLO pipeline boosters can increase throughput by more than 90% of the pipeline's mechanical capacity.


For more information on Baker Hughes see:
http://www.bakerhughes.com/bakerhughes/