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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.

What is Electret?

April 1, 2010

Electret is a counter term of magnet. A magnet is a ferrous material that possesses a quasi-permanent internal and external magnetic field. […]

What Actually is a Membrane?

January 1, 2010

My dictionary answers that question with “any thin pliable sheet of material” – but the true answer is much more complicated than […]

Nano This and Nano That

January 1, 2010

Several terms, each with the prefix “nano-”, are now in use in the fields of filtration and its related separation processes, and […]

Foam Hydrocarbon Traps in Automotive Air Induction Systems

January 1, 2009

Air pollution from automotives presents a serious problem and needs to be controlled. It is widely accepted that, in urban settings, 45% […]

Surface Wettability Affects Filtration

January 1, 2006

Wettability is a property that exists on every surface and influences the behavior of a fluid surrounding the surface due to the […]

Precision Monofilament Woven Filtration Media

January 1, 2006

Precision woven monofilament filtration fabrics can be classified many ways and into several broad categories, usually by their micron rating, fractional void […]

Porous Metal Filter Media

January 1, 2006

Most industrial companies that process fluids – such as chemical processing, pharmaceuticals, oil refining, automotive and others- utilize some type of filtration […]

Mist Elimination

January 1, 2006

Mist eliminators remove extremely fine liquid droplets from industrial gases to improve efficiencies of distillation columns and scrubbers. Also, to protect ducts […]

Coalescing Process

January 1, 2006

Coalescing is accomplished using a device for the separation of a liquid/liquid emulsion of dispersed small discrete droplets from a basically unstable […]