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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.
Filter Aid Permeability Test Method
Permeability is a measure of rate of liquid flowing through a porous medium or a particulate filter cake. It is an important […]
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Measurement of Porosity Using a Custom-made Pycnometer
Introduction Porosity, permeability, and pore size distribution are three closely related concepts important to filter design and filter performance. Porosity is a […]
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Measurement of Filter Permeability Using Frazier Air Permeability Tester
Introduction Permeability is a measure of the ease of a fluid that passes through the filter medium. It is one of the […]
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Beta Ratios Explained and Applied to Liquid Filter Selection
Liquid Filter Beta Ratios Absolute rated liquid filter selection is tied to the media micron rating, materials of construction, construction design, and […]
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What is Slip-flow and How Does it Affect Filter?
Recent scientific interest in nanofibers have many people exploring their use in filter media. One of the advantages of nanofibers for gas […]
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What is Electret?
Electret is a counter term of magnet. A magnet is a ferrous material that possesses a quasi-permanent internal and external magnetic field. […]
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What Actually is a Membrane?
My dictionary answers that question with “any thin pliable sheet of material” – but the true answer is much more complicated than […]
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Nano This and Nano That
Several terms, each with the prefix “nano-”, are now in use in the fields of filtration and its related separation processes, and […]
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Foam Hydrocarbon Traps in Automotive Air Induction Systems
Air pollution from automotives presents a serious problem and needs to be controlled. It is widely accepted that, in urban settings, 45% […]
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