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Keep up to date with the latest AFS news, industry news, and our One Minute Filtration articles, a quick-read series designed to keep you up to speed on the latest innovations, insights, and industry trends in filtration and separation.

Whether you’re on the go or just need a quick dose of knowledge, these bite-sized news articles deliver valuable content.

Does Anyone Make Prefilters?

October 1, 2017

One of the best known and perhaps least examined products in the filtration industry is the unheralded “prefilter”. Advertisements in filtration trade […]

Cycle Rate Analysis for Filter Aid Selection

October 1, 2017

Filter aids are rigid, irregular shaped, non or little compactible particulate materials used as precoat or body feed to assist or enhance […]

Combination Filters

October 1, 2017

Simply defined, a combination filter is one that does at least one other processing job at the same time as filtering a […]

Is There Such a Thing as Surface Filtration?

October 1, 2017

It is often said that the range of filtration processes is divided into four classes, with one developing further into a fifth […]

Particulate Matter in Ambient Air

September 1, 2017

Particulate matter (PM) is a pollutant as a mixture of solid particles, liquid droplets and mixture of solid and liquid particles in […]

Coagulation, Flocculation, and Agglomeration

September 1, 2017

Agglomeration Agglomeration refers to the formation of more or less firmly bound primary particles by collision processes between primary particles, primary particles […]