CFSS 2025 – Specialist Certification
Required Courses and Exam Schedule
In today’s world—where demand for cleaner air, safer water, and sustainable solutions is surging—the Certified Filtration & Separation Specialist (CFSS) credential sets you apart as a trusted industry expert. WFI is proud to launch the 2025 CFSS program, Air & Liquid Track, designed to empower professionals with advanced knowledge, credibility, and a competitive edge in the fast-growing filtration and separation market.
Led by renowned global experts, this prestigious certification is the new standard for professionals seeking career advancement, leadership opportunities, and recognition as thought leaders in the air and liquid filtration industry.
Why Earn the CFSS Title?
Prestigious Recognition – Gain industry recognition with a credential employers trust.
Stay Ahead – Learn directly from global experts about cutting-edge technologies, and trend
Unmatched flexibility: Learn live or on-demand, from your phone or computer.
Business Impact: Gain insights to drive innovation and market expansion
Required Courses for CFSS Exam
Global Filtration Market, Opportunities, and Trends is a comprehensive course offering a deep-dive into the evolving world of filtration, its demands, trends, and challenges. Guided by industry experts, you will explore various filtration applications, gain valuable insights into the latest market trends, and discover opportunities in this rapidly expanding field.
Air Filtration offers a comprehensive understanding of the principles, technologies, and practices involved in air filtration, exploring its numerous applications across different market segments. This course delves into the rising demands, challenges, and opportunities in air filtration, keeping a keen eye on future trends.
Air Filter Design is an advanced course dedicated to the principles and processes behind designing effective air filters. The course explores the role of application sensitivity, filter media selection, testing, and validating filters in various contexts, and discusses the ongoing developments, challenges, and opportunities in the field.
Nonwovens in Filtration is an in-depth exploration of nonwoven fabrics, their production, and their significant role in the field of filtration. Through a detailed study of nonwoven manufacturing processes, market trends, and their diverse applications, this course offers profound insights into the burgeoning sector of nonwovens, highlighting its future opportunities and innovations.
Particulate/Air Separation offers specialized knowledge about various particle removal techniques from air streams, including cyclones, electrostatic precipitators, and wet scrubbers. The course helps air filtration specialists comprehend these effective pre-filtration separation processes used in complex filtration systems.
FIlter Media Technologies is an all-encompassing guide to understanding the diverse types of filter media used in modern air and liquid filtration. This course sheds light on the competitive world of filter media technology, its market, emerging trends, challenges, and future development.
Gas Phase Filtration provides an all-encompassing understanding of the gas phase filtration market and technologies aimed at purifying air by removing harmful gases, VOCs, and odors. This course covers basic principles, types of adsorbents, delivery systems, evaluation methods, standards, and discusses the future developments and trends in the sector.
Air Filter Evaluation and Testing Methods aims to impart a thorough understanding of test methodologies and techniques involved in developing non-woven air filtration media and end products. The course offers insights into application-driven developments, use of published testing protocols, and emphasizes data quality assessment for significant project outcomes.
Liquid Filtration is a certification course designed to equip professionals with expertise in solid/liquid separation or liquid filtration. This course provides practical insights into liquid filtration systems, making it ideal for both newcomers to the filtration industry and experienced professionals seeking to refresh their fundamental knowledge.
Liquid Filter Design aims to certify professionals as specialists in solid/liquid separation or liquid filtration. The course focuses on the design, selection, and testing of different types of filters used for liquid filtration from an industrial perspective. It offers both foundational knowledge for newcomers to the industry and a refreshing perspective for seasoned professionals.
Solid Liquid Separation is a course focused on field separation processes. The course provides a comprehensive understanding of field separation and its applications in the industry, including pretreatment techniques used to enhance filtration and separation performances.
Liquid Filter Testing and Evaluation is an introductory course on liquid filtration testing, methods, standards, and equipment used. The course covers filter test techniques and standards for water, fuel, lube oil, and hydraulic fluids, as well as a review of particle characteristics, efficiency methods, and ratings.
CFSS 2025 Certification Exam Schdule
Location: Online (registrants will receive access information)
Date: November 11, 2025
Time: 8:00 – 10:00 AM ET