Filtration and Separation in Water Treatment
August 6, 2024, Tuesday
8:00am-10:00am, ET Canada & US
$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.
Panelist
Dr. Eric Hoek
Eric Hoek is a professor in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, specializing in nanomaterials, membrane technology, and electrochemistry for water, energy, and environmental applications. Dr. Hoek has advised over 50 graduate and post-graduate students, published over 160 peer-reviewed journal articles, and filed over 30 primary patents. He is the founding and former editor-in-chief of the Nature journal npj Clean Water and former associate editor of the Elsevier journal Desalination. He has authored books on Sustainable Desalination & Water Reuse and Oil & Gas Produced Water Management, and also was co-editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of Membrane Science. As an entrepreneur, Dr. Hoek has co-founded several successful technology companies, including NanoH2O, PolyCera Membranes, IntelliFlux Controls,Water Planet, SpecifX Lithium and Active Membranes. Dr. Hoek holds a Ph.D. from Yale, an M.S. from UCLA, and a B.S. from Penn State - all in engineering.
Panelist
Mr. Richard Lydon
Mr. Lydon is a leading expert in the global filtration & separation industry. He has led and held a number leadership positions at public and private filtration & industrial businesses in a career spanning 30 years. Having both a business and technology background, he has helped companies grow and develop on global platform basis through M&A, VC and PE. He is currently adviser and business lead at Molymem Ltd. Richard has held a number of institutional roles including Visiting Professor, previously at Loughborough University and currently at Leeds University in the UK. He is also Secretariat of The Filtration Society and previously lead this knowledge sharing network. He is also Chair of the External Advisory Board (Materials) at University of Manchester, helping & guiding the next generation of STEM graduates and nurturing potential spin-out businesses in the ESG space across the North West of the UK, where he resides. He is on WFI Advisory Board and served as WFI 2021-2023 Co-Chair.
Penalists
Mr. Scott Yaeger, President/CEO of Filtration and Separation Technology International, Inc. (FAST International, Inc.) 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. Christine Sun, President, Waterloo Filtration Institute, USA
Dr. Sun is a renowned technical and market expert in the global filtration industry. With over 30 years of experience in both academia and the industry, she has an in-depth knowledge of filtration, and extensive hands-on expertise in product development, with over 100 technical publications and patents. She is also actively involved in many air/liquid filter standard test developments. Dr. Sun received her Ph.D. from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and her Executive Certificate from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management. From 2004 to 2011, Dr. Sun worked for Freudenberg Filtration Technologies as the R&D manager and Technology Director for Donaldson 2011-2013. She was the AFS Chair from 2016 to 2017 and received the AFS Fellow Award in 2019, Sr. Scientist Award in 2012, and the best paper award from INDA in 2008. She is also an editorial board member for Textile Research Journal and Journal of Industrial Textiles.
Dr.-ing Nicolas PETILLON (CTO, IFTS, France)
Dr. ing Nicolas PETILLON is the CTO of IFTS (Institut de la Filtration et des Techniques Séparatives) in France. He has over 25 years of experience in liquid filtration testing and over 10 years of experience in cleanliness expertise. He serves as Convenor and expert at ISO committee, such as ISO TC 70/SC7; ISO TC 22/SC34; ISO TC 131/SC6. He worked as as an assistant professor at the University of CAEN and a research engineer at SOGEFI FILTRATION in the past. He gratuated from Chemical engineering, ENSIC – Université de Lorraine (1991) and received his Ph.D. in 1996, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, France.