Filtration and Separation in Water Treatment
August 5, 2025, Tuesday
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET, USA
$USD 350
$USD 175 (Member Only)
Course Objective
Water is a vital resource in many producing sectors, interacting with several steps of the value-added chain. Pressure-driven membrane processes typically offer reliable and resource-efficient solutions. This course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the operating principles, possibilities, and limitations of these membrane processes for the treatment of water, process fluids, and wastewater.
Upon completion, participants will gain essential knowledge to help identify and design suitable processes to address production-specific and product-relevant tasks related to water treatment. The course will also feature a panel discussion on new developments, challenges, opportunities, and trends in clean water solutions, and a Live Q&A session.
Course Outline
1. General aspects of water treatment with membrane technology
2. Technological fundamentals of the pressure driven membrane processes microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF), nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO)
3. Membranes as well-defined barriers
4. Strategies in water management and application examples for membrane processes in selected areas of water treatment
4.1 Production
4.2 Reuse
4.3 Protection
5. Example for improving operation of membrane processes
6. New developments, opportunities and trends (panel discussion)
Instructor Biography
Instructor
Dr.-Ing. Thomas Peters
Dr.-Ing. Thomas Peters is an internationally renowned expert in membrane technology and environmental engineering. He has over 40 years of experience in the field of pressure-driven membrane processes for the treatment of water, process fluids, and wastewater. Related pioneering work was focused between others on the use of reverse osmosis for desalination of seawater, for the purification of landfill leachate and water reuse in different areas. He earned his Ph.D. in 1980 at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg on the subject "Production of drinking water from seawater with reverse osmosis“. After leading management functions in a middle-sized and multinational company, he has been a high-level independent technology consultant since 1986, authored more than 100 publications and more than 50 oral presentations. He is co-editor of a landfill compendium. He received the Stanley Gray Award - Marine Technology 2000/2001 of the IMarEST, London, and the ATCP Award 2007, Concepción, Chile.
Mr. Scott Yaeger
Panelist
Mr. Scott Yaeger is currently President/CEO of Filtration and Separation Technology International, Inc. (FAST International, Inc.) He has over 40 years with a broad range of experience in Membrane Filtration with several market leading manufacturers and marketers including Sartorius, Cuno/3M, Gelman/Pall, and PTI Advanced Filtration/Parker Hannifin. He has held worldwide senior level positions in Sales, Marketing, Engineering, R&D, Manufacturing, and General Management. Since 2004 as President of FAST Consulting, LLC, he has assisted in the development of new membranes into new and existing markets, new membrane device technologies, and new membrane applications for multiple market leading filtration companies. Scott was the Founding Chairman of the American Filtration and Separation Society (AFS), a past Member of the Board of Directors, and Program Chair. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Electrocoat Association (EA). He was awarded the Wells Shoemaker Award from AFS and the Brewer Award from EA. He is the inventor on 4 US Patents and their International counter parts, has presented over 400 technical papers into more than 10 technical societies. Scott is on the Editorial Board for Filtration News.
Dr. Wu Chen
Panelist
Dr. Chen retired from a Fellow role at Dow Inc. in 2023 after 35 years of service. He has extensive industrial experience in engineering and process technologies, especially in solid-liquid separation and gas/air filtration. He also has expertise in project management, process design, plant/site startup and operation. His recent focus has been in sustainability which includes CO2 capture, plastic recycling and water sustainability. He has been teaching this course in numerous organizations and countries for 30 years. He has also been very active in technical communities. He constantly contributes to journal articles and books including the Perry’s Chem. Engr. Handbook. He has been Plenary and Keynote speakers at major conferences such as FILTECH, American Filtration & Separation Society (AFS) conferences, AIChE conferences, World Filtration Congresses and more. Dr. Chen had served as the chairman of AFS, board of directors, conference chairs, and currently leads the education programs of AFS. He was awarded numerous awards for his technical achievement, leadership and contributions. In 2024, he was awarded the AFS Lifetime Achievement Award which recognized his significant lifetime contributions to fluid/particle technologies and industry.
Penalists
Mr. Richard Lydon, Secretary General of The Filtration Society (UK), is a leading expert in the global filtration industry. He has led and held a number leadership positions at public and private businesses in a career spanning 35 years. Having both a business and technology background, he has helped companies grow and develop on global platform basis through SEED Funding, M&A, VC and PE. Businesses Richard has helped lead & grow include Molymem(UK), Veco/ Muon Group (The Netherlands, now part of IDEX Corp), Filtration Group (USA), Clear Edge Filtration (Globally), Madison Filter (UK) Scapa Group plc (UK) and Porvair plc (UK). Richard has also held a number of institutional roles including Visiting Professor roles at Loughborough & Leeds University. He is External Advisory Board Chair (Materials) at University of Manchester and IEO, TU Dublin. He is Advisory Board Member of WFI and co-chair of the WFI annual conference for the past 5 years.
Dr. Christine Sun, President of the World Filtration Institute, is a globally renowned technical and market expert in the filtration and nonwovens industry. With over 30 years of experience in academia and industry, she has in-depth knowledge of filtration and extensive hands-on expertise in product and business development, with over 100 technical publications and patents in the field. Dr. Sun worked for Freudenberg Filtration Technologies from 2004 to 2011 as an R&D manager and then served as Technology Director for Donaldson Company from 2011 to 2013. She was the Chair of the American Filtration and Separation Society (AFS) from 2016 to 2017 and received the AFS Fellow Award in 2019. She serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Industrial Textiles. Dr. Sun received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and her Executive Certificate from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, USA.