Health Symposium at WFC 13 to Examine Role of Filtration in Current Challenges

As the filtration and separations industry continues to grow and innovate in response to a quickly changing technological landscape, experts from around the world will gather at the 13th World Filtration Congress (WFC 13) in October of 2022. Hosted by the American Filtration and Separations Society, WFC 13 will include significant programming focusing on human health and how filtration is helping to solve global challenges.

The following sessions are included in the Health Symposium at WFC 13:

“From Farm to (Operating) Table:  Air Quality and Health”
Plenary session: Mr. Geoff Crosby. In this plenary presentation, the value of air quality and health will be considered in various industries and across multiple assets, from agriculture to healthcare and food/beverage to pharmaceutics, and how filtration and separations are addressing industry challenges.

“Building an Implantable Artificial Kidney”
Keynote address: Dr. William Fissell, M.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Dr. Shuvo Roy, Professor, UCSF. Kidneys are paired vital organs that remove waste while regulating fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance, which is fundamentally a membrane separation process followed by regulated reabsorption of essential water and salts. Due to severe shortage of donor organs for transplant, most patients with kidney failure are treated with hemodialysis, a recurring membrane filtration process that partially replaces the failed kidney. In this keynote presentation, Dr. Fissell and Dr. Roy present their work on a novel membrane for blood separations that mimics the kidneys' own filters pore shape and size to develop an implantable artificial kidney.

Facemask and Respirators for Filtering Airborne Viruses, Harmful Aerosols
Moderated by Ranil Wickramasinghe, University of Arkansas, this oral technical session presents work on the following:

  1. “High Throughput Quality Control Filter Testing,” Presenter: Tim Johnson, TSI Incorporated
  2. “Influence of Tests Conditions on Filtration Efficiency of Medical Facemasks,” Presenter: Ala Bouhanguel, IMT Atlantique
  3. “Testing N95/KN95/FFP Particulate Respirator Masks for Resistance and Particle Efficiency,” Presenter: Gautam Patel, Air Techniques International
  4. “Influence of Particle Size on Penetration for Face Masks and Personal Protection Equipment,” Presenter: Martin Schmidt, Palas GmbH
  5. “An Outline of Face Mask Testing, Performance Requirements and Industry Trends,” Presenter: Sarah Smit, Nelson Laboratories

Antimicrobial, Harmful Gas Breakdown
Moderated by Tinoush Dinn, BASF, this oral technical session presents work on the following:

  1. “Breakdown of Harmful NOx and VOC by Photooxidation Using Whitewash,” Presenter: Wallace Leung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  2. “Fluid and Impurity Transport during Online Isolation Experiments Conducted with X-Ray Tomography,” Presenter: Sara Ottoboni, CMAC
  3. “A Different Type of Uv Provides Significant Advantages,” Presenter: George Diefenthal, NeoTech Aqua Solutions, Inc.
  4. “Antimicrobial Nano Zinc Ozide for Non-Woven Filter Media,” Presenter: Matt Utley, Great Lakes Filters
  5. “Filtration Media Functionalized With Zinc Oxide,” Presenter: Kevin Urman, Ascend Performance Materials

Biopharmaceutical Separation I
Moderated by Ranil Wickramasinghe, University of Arkansas, this oral technical session presents work on the following:

  1. “The Effect of Permeate Flux on the Clearance of Minute Virus of Mice,” Presenter: Ranil Wickramasinghe, University of Arkansas
  2. “Simplified Estimate of Cake Properties in Ultrafiltration of Protein Solution,” Presenter: Nobuyuki Katagiri, Meijo University
  3. “Exploring Monoclonal Antibody (mAb) Filtration through Virus Retentive Membranes,” Presenter: Matthew Billups, The Pennsylvania State University
  4. “Innovative Combination of Microwaves with Centrifugal Forces for Natural Products Extraction,” Presenter: Pascal Ginisty, IFTS Testing & Research
  5. “Integrated Filtration and Washing Modelling of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Impurities,” Presenter: Bhavik Mehta, Siemens Process Systems Engineering

Biopharmaceutical Separation II

Moderated by Sal Giglia, MilliporeSigma, this oral technical session presents work on the following:

  1. “Exploring Role of Anti-solvent Effects during Washing on Active Pharmaceutical Product Purity,” Presenter: Muhid Shahid, University of Strathclyde
  2. “Pioneering Continuous Automatic Piston Discharge Centrifuge for the Bioprocessing and Biopharmaceutical Industries,” Jing Liu, Celeros Separations LLC
  3. “Fructooligosaccharide Production using a Membrane Reactor and Subsequent Fermentation with Bacillus Coagulans,” Presenter: Rong Fan, University of Applied Sciences Mittelhessen
  4. “Novel Centrifugal Classification of Inclusion Body (IB) from Recombinant Protein,” Presenter: Wallace Leung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  5. “Defect Detection Sensitivity of Bubble Point Type Tests for Sterilizing Grade Filters,” Presenter: Sal Giglia, MilliporeSigma

Health Technologies

Moderated by KJ Choi, this oral technical session presents work on the following:

  1. “Filtering SARS-CoV-2 Virus Aerosols with Electret Nanofiber Filter,” Presenter: Wallace Leung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  2. “Automating the Final Filtration and Dispensing Process,” Presenter: Zach Welch, Parker Hannifin
  3. “Nanofiltration Must Be Combined with Laminar Vertical Flow to Minimize Virus Infection Risk,” Presenter: Andreas Mayer, NanoCleanAir GmbH
  4. “Exploring the Role of Anti-Solvent Effects during Washing on Active Pharmaceutical Product Purity,” Sara Ottoboni, CMAC

Detail on these presentations and presenters can be found in the detailed program here.

The Health Symposium is joined by symposia on Energy and the Environment.

About the World Filtration Congress

Held every four years (with the upcoming event having been delayed since 2020 due to the pandemic), World Filtration Congress is like no other filtration event due to the extraordinary array of technical and educational offerings and based on the number of countries and industries represented among the thousands of attendees. The International Delegation on Filtration (INDEFI) created the first World Filtration Congress in 1974. Its prime mission is to share information and keep up with the increasing problem-solving demands of filtration and separations technology. INDEFI now includes 13 member countries – Austria, Australia, China, Chinese Taipei, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Japan, South Korea, Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden), UK and the United States.

This exceptional technical forum attracts a wide variety of professionals, including scientists, researchers, academic professors, engineers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, end-users, university students of different disciplines and legislators.

Learn more at www.wfc13.com, WFC 13 LinkedIn page or WFC 13 Twitter feed.

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