Patent 7713421 was granted and assigned to SEPARATION DESIGN GROUP, LLC on May, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The invention relates to a method of separating components of a fluid mixture comprising the steps of providing a fluid, providing a sorbent structure (120), sorbing a first component of the fluid, desorbing the first component, and electrokinetically biasing the first component in a direction other than the vector of the fluid mixture.