AFS 2011 Annual Conference
May 9-12, 2011
Holiday Inn Hurstbourne
1325 South Hurstbourne Pkway
Louisville, KY 40222
USA
Tentative Schedule for 2011 Conference
Schedule is still subject to modification (updated 3/21/2011)
Conference Co-Chairs
Dr. K-J Choi
Email: kchoi228@gmail.com
Dr. B.K. Parekh
Email: bhuparekh@gmail.com
**Click on the links in the paper titles to view abstracts.**
| Time | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 |
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| 8:15 AM | Welcome |
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| 8:30 AM | |||
| 9:10 AM | Dr. Deb Wilfong, "Filtration Innovation for a Cleaner World" |
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| 9:50 AM | Break |
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Track 1 |
Track 2 |
Track 3 |
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Session/Paper Title |
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Solid/Liquid Separation I |
Air Filter - I |
Virtual Design of Filtration Processes |
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| 10:10 AM | K. Gaarder, "Investigation of Filter Cake Removal with Different Puff-back Cleaning Modes in a Panel Bed Filter" | Q. Ou, "Numerical Study of Pressure Drop across Pleated Filter Panels under Dynamic Particle Loading" | C. Cox, "Mathematical Modeling to Determine Cross Flow Filter Design Parameters" |
| 10:35 AM | B. Perlmutter, "A Treatise of Filter Cake Washing Mechanisms In Pressure and Vacuum Filtration Systems" | P. Tronville, "Charge-depletion effects from isopropyl alcohol treatment of electret fiber filter media" | S. Hosseini, "Transient Modeling Filtration Efficiency of Nanofiber Filters: 3-D Domains vs. 2-D Domains" |
| 11:00 AM | C. Peuchot, "Introduction to the characterisation of products prior to formulating a Solid -Liquid Separation problem" | B. McDonald, "PM Based Air Filter Efficiency and Rating" | A. Wiegmann, "Progress and Challenges predicting filtration and separation" |
| 11:25 AM | C. Peuchot, "How to reduce energy consumption in cartridge liquid filtration" | W. Poon, "Effects of Humidity and Wetting on the Penetration of Submicron Particles for Fibrous Filters" | |
| 11:50 AM | Award Lunch |
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Micro/Ultra/Magnetic Filtration |
Air Filter - II |
Air Filter III |
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| 1:10 PM | A. Scholz, "In-situ product removal (ISPR) of functional proteins from prokaryotic cultivations by high specific magnetic separation" | G. Bhat, "Advances in Meltblown Nanofiber Research for Filter Media" | T.J. Ptak, "Prediction of Air Filter Performance from Media Flat Sheet Testing" |
| 1:35 PM | R. Venkatadri, "Improvement of Cooling Tower Blowdown Water Treatment with Microfiltration/Reverse Osmosis Technology | P. Kulkarni, "Mixed hydrophilic/hydrophobic fiber media for water-in-oil coalescence" | T.J. Ptak, "Performance of Air Cleaning Systems in Residential Buildings" |
| 2:00 PM | S. Yaeger, "Tangential Flow Microfiltration - A Developing New Technology" | C. Shields, "Advances in Downstream BioPharmaceutical Purification" | J. Sturnfield, "Modeling of Non-Woven Fiber in Air Filtration" |
| 2:25 PM | C. Shields, "High Performance Synthetic Nanofiber Composite Media Design for Static and Back Pulse Air Filtration Applications" | G. Crosby, "Benchmark Testing of Air Filtration Media in Cartridges for Pulse Clean Applications" | |
| 2:50 PM | Break |
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Centrifuges/S&L Separation |
Air Filter - IV |
Centrifuges/ Membrane/SLS |
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| 3:05 PM | A. Kole, "Novel, low energy, compact hydrodynamic separation technology for industrial application" | R. Vijayakumar, "Filtration Media Performance at Low Pressures" | D. Romeo, "The Fundamentals of Screen & Disc Filtration" |
| 3:30 PM | J. Brouwers, "Rotational Particle Separator: an efficient method to separate micron-sized droplets and particles" | R. Vijayakumar, "High Efficiency Filter Standards and You" | R. Driscoll, "Scale-up of Liquid / Liquid Centrifuges for Separation and Extraction Processes" |
| 3:55 PM | H. van Kemenade, "Gas - gas separation by condensation and centrifugation" | R. Cummins, "Increase Air Filter Live, Reduce Energy Costs" | R. Youngs, "Low-Energy Dewatering of Biomass for Energy and Products" |
| 4:20 PM | B. Mullins, "Measurement and modelling of the force required to move coalesced oil droplets along oleophillic and oleophobic fibres" | B. Stanley, "Evaluating the Life Cycle Cost of Ozone Filtration" | T. Weaver, "Crossflow Tubular Microfiltration Membranes with Backpulse Capability" |
| 4:45 PM | R. Burkhead, "Birth of a new testing Protocol - ASHRAE 199" | Taylour Johnson, "Optimization of MBR Systems" | |
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| 6:00 PM | Networking Reception |
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| Time | Wednesday, May 11, 2011 |
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| 8:15 AM | Welcome |
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| 8:30 AM | Ed Gregor, "Sustainability...Shades of Green" |
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| 9:10 AM | Dr. Samual A. Morton III, "Phase Separation Challenges in the Energy Industry" |
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| 9:50 AM | Break |
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Track 1 |
Track 2 |
Track 3 |
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Session/Paper Title |
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Liquid Filter Media |
Air Filter Testing |
Air/Engine Filtration |
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| 10:10 AM | C. Sun, "Mastering Filtration of Modern Engine Oils with Advanced Synthetic Filter Media" | T. Johnson, "Influence of neutralization on Fractional Efficiency Filter Test Penetration results" | D. Copley, "Measurement methods used in the Development of High efficiency Engine blow-by Aerosol Separation Systems" |
| 10:35 AM | J. Billing, "Chemical cleaning of porous stainless steel cross-flow filter elements for nuclear waste applications" | D. Woodman, "Flat Sheet Testing and Correlation to Air Filter Performance" | S. Fotovati, "Transient Modeling of Dust-Loaded Pleated Air Filters" |
| 11:00 AM | D. Hennessy, "Hot Oil Durability of Phenolic Filter Media" | M. Schmidt, "Special requirements on the particle measuring device in filter testing according to ASHRAE 52.2 and EN 779" | S. Hosseini, "On the Drag Force and Collections Efficiency of Circular and Non-Circular, Clean and Loaded Submicron Fibers" |
| 11:25 AM | M. Schmidt, "Influence of the dust on the filter efficiency and emissions of cleanable filter media" | T. Johnson, "A new Particle Counter for Fractional Efficiency Filter Testing" | C. Muller, "Moving Closer to Net Zero Buildings with the IAQ Procedure of ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2010" |
| 11:50 AM | Lunch |
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Sustainability |
Engine Emission and Greenhouse Gas Control |
Air Filter V |
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| 1:10 PM | M. Willingham, "Self Cleaning Filters for Liquid Filtration Applications" | A. Stzelec, "Impact of Biodiesel on Particulate Emissions Control" | P. Tsai, "Semi-theoretical and Experimental Results Correlating the Filtration Efficiencies of Meltblown Electrets Challenged by Paraffin Oil, Dioctyl Phthalate, and Sodium Chloride Aerosols" |
| 1:35 PM | D. Hearl, "Innovations in Automatic and Backflushing Filtration" | S. Krishnan, "Dual Fuel Low Temperature Combustion - A Practical Strategy for In-Cylinder Emissions Reduction" | T. Mueller, "Measuring the single fiber efficiency of model fibers in parallel arrays - Loading kinetics under inertial conditions" |
| 2:00 PM | E. Mayer, "Use and Importance of Reusable Filters in the Process Industry" | B. Ranganath, "Explore zone coating options in Catalyzed Soot Filter (CSF) and study its impact on passive soot oxidation in a simulated environment" | P. Tsai, "Decreasing the Increasing Rate of the Resistance on High Efficiency Membrane Online-coated with Meltblown Fabrics Loaded with Particles" |
| 2:25 PM | D. Frick, "Filtration applications benefiting from reusable filter media" | A. Munnannur, "Uniformity Indices for Performance Evaluation of Aftertreatment Systems" | Q. Gu, "Ozone Removal at Micro-second Contact Time for Aircraft Cabin Air using Microfibrous Entrapped Catalysts" |
| 2:50 PM | Break |
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FiltrationSimulation/ Energy |
F&S in Transportation I |
Showcase Session |
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| 3:05 PM | T. Laminger, "Macroscopic modeling of liquid and air transport processes within a filtering mist separator" | A. Janakiraman, "Development and Application of CFD Discrete Phase Single Fiber Model" | Fiberweb Freudenberg |
| 3:30 PM | M. Knefel, "CFD Simulation of Woven Sand Control Screens" | A. King, "A new computational fluid dynamics solver to simulate capture, coalescence and drainage in coalescing filter media" | Keystone Filters Lydall |
| 3:55 PM | A. Chamkha, "Melting Effect on Mixed Convection Flow of a Non-Newtonian Fluid along a Vertical Cone in Porous Media" | B. Verdegan, "Progress in Diesel Fuel Filtration to Meet HPCR Cleanliness Requirements" | Quantachrome Instruments TSI |
| 4:20 PM | M. Lehmann, "Virtual filter media design -a study on representative domain size for fibrous structures" | S. Schwartz, "Improved Air Induction System Packaging Solutions for Diesel Engines" | AFS 2012 Annual Conference
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| 4:45 PM | A. Wiegmann, "Improved Control for Media-Scale Multipass Simulations" | S. Feng, "Characterization and Comparison between Dust from Field Tested Air Filters and ISO 12103-1 Test Dusts" | |
| Time | Thursday, May 12, 2011 |
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| 7:50 AM | Welcome |
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| 8:00 AM | Dr. Pushpinder S. Puri, "Opportunities for Microporous Membranes – Beyond Filtration Applications" |
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| 8:40 AM | Steve A. Witters, Esq., P.E., "Patents, to Love or Hate" |
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| 9:20 AM | Break |
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Biofuel/Membrane/S&L Separation |
F&S in Transportation - II |
Nanofiber |
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| 9:30 AM | R. Putt, "The Potential and Challenges of Algae Farming in the Southeast U.S." | P. Trautmann, "Water-Diesel Separation. Part 1: Advances in Testing and System Development" | B. Raghavan, "Fabrication of nanofibers using ForcespinningTM technology" |
| 9:55 AM | T. Kinnarinen, "Solid-liquid separation of hydrolysates obtained from enzymatic hydrolysis of recycled fibre" | S. Schutz, "Water-Diesel Separation. Part 2: Impact of Fuel Additives on the Physical Properties of Water-Diesel Emulsions" | C. Sun, "Polymeric Nanofibers, Methods to Make and Applications in Filtration" |
| 10:20 AM | E. Mayer, "Dry Filter Aid/Flocculant Addition to an Automatic Pressure Filter(APF) for Direct WWT" | P Hettkamp, "Validation of dust-loading simulations of pleated air filters by means of X-ray tomography" | G. Manzo, "Drop Motion on Superhydrophobic Surfaces" |
| 10:45 AM | Break |
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Biofuel/Membrane/S&L Separation |
Metal Filter |
Nanofiber |
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| 10:55 AM | P. Puri, "Membrane Bio-Reactors – Mystery Unfolded" | M. Campbell, "Reclamation of Shattered Metal used in Filtration Applications" | L. Shahreen, "Titania nanofibers based catalytic filter media for high temperature application" |
| 11:20 AM | M. Hanka, "Green Alternative to Diatomaceous Earth and Perlite" | S. Reynolds, "Cleaning and Validation of Metal Filters Used in Fluid Filtration Applications" | K. Nartetamrongsutt, "The effects of sodium chloride to electrospun polyvinylpyrrolidone nanofibers" |
| 11:45 AM | G. Grim, "A Novel Solid Liquid Separation Technique: 'The Dynamic Cross-flow Filter: It's Advantages and Benefits Demonstrated with an Example Process"" | S. Wang, "The hydrophilic property of polysulfone membrane blended with cellulose nanofibers" | |
