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AFS offers a number of unique filtration and separations training short courses. Educational opportunities on these topics are difficult to find, especially with the level of expertise that you will receive here. Leading experts from the filtration and separations industry are instructing the courses. Upon completion, attendees receive certificates of completion and earn CEU credit.
Product familiarization and technical training of new and existing filtration products is an integral and essential part of doing business. An investment in knowledge is a key ingredient in understanding a customer's business and being able to recommend cost-effective system solutions.
Understanding the damaging role that contamination plays in system failure and machine downtime is typically one of the many topics covered as well as correct filter sizing and understanding filter media types and uses.
Filtration & Separations Media Use and Market, .4 CEUs,
May 6, 2013
8 AM - 12 PM
Hilton Minneapolis/St. Paul
Mall of America, 3800 American Blvd. East
Bloomington, MN 55425
USA
Course Description:
Filtration and separation media is the heart and soul of every filter and filtration process. This course covers eight major categories and over twenty distinctive types of filtration media. The construction of each medium is unique with specific design and functional advantages clearly described.
The presentation is heavy with visual examples and descriptions of multiple advantages and disadvantages along with in-depth application details not found elsewhere in the industry. Market size, new developments, trends, un-met needs and future outlook ties the course together. A must attend course if filtration media expertise and market information is important to the success of your job.
Edward C. Gregor is Managing Director of Edward C. Gregor & Associates, LLC, a consulting company specializing in the creation of growth for companies having new or under-exploited technologies and manufacturing capabilities in performance materials, specialty polymers, technical textiles and filtration. He has developed several of the industries most advanced filtration media, fiber, textile, nonwoven fabric technologies with client companies over the years.
Ed Gregor is co-founder of the American Filtration & Separations Society in 1987, and has served as past Chairman in 1990 and again in 2004 and was awarded the AFS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. Mr. Gregor is the chairman of Filtration News magazine technical advisory board and on the textile advisory board of the Journal of Industrial Textiles and Coated Fabrics. He was the co-founder and Editorial Consultant of the magazine Technical Textile Technology (T³) formed in 2002 for the North American market.
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- Agrilectric Research
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