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| List of
Speakers |
Mr. Peter Bolduan, Managing Director, Atech Innovations
Gmbh, Germany
Mr. Mike Grigus, Sales
Engineer, Niro Corporation, USA
Mr. Carl R.
Hoffman, Business Manager, Food/Dairy & Beverage,
Koch Membrane Systems, USA
Dr. S. Sefa Koseoglu,
President, Filtration and Membrane World LLC, USA
Dr. Gerold Luss, Technical Director,
Complete Filtration Resources Inc., USA
Mr. Sohail Mirza, President, Somicon AG, Switzerland
Mr. Lewis Pain, National Sales Manager,
PCI Membrane Systems Inc., USA
Mr. Dennis L. Schmidt, Manager Tech Service -
Membrane Systems, DiverseyLever US Food Group, USA
Dr. Navpreet Singh, Senior Separation
Scientist, The Solae Company, USA
Mr. Jamie
Vinsant, Applications Engineer, Ionics Inc.,
USA
Mr. Tom Wigfield, VP Marketing, Pall Corporation,
USA
Mr. Scott Wittwer, Product Manager,
Graver Technologies, USA
Dr. Jorge Yacubowicz,
Business Manager, Koch Membrane Systems, USA |
| Thursday,
May 18, 2006 |
| 8:00 |
Basic Principles of Membrane
Separations, (Dr. Sefa Koseoglu)
• Economics
• Terminology and definitions
• Limitations and comparison to other technologies
• Advantages: Efficiency, yield, new products,
and energy savings
• Purification, fractionation and/or separation
of selective compounds
• Pre-treatment: Importance, technologies, and
effect on yield and design
• Review of polymeric membranes: Properties, process
engineering, and equipment
• Practical aspects of membrane technology: Temperature,
pressure and pH combine effects
• Future Prospects |
| 9:00
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Practical Aspects of Membrane
Filtration Design and Control,
(Mr. Mike Grigus)
• Process optimization and design criteria
• Pilot Study and data analysis
• System process design
• System mechanics and control design
• Capital operating costs
• Membrane selection criteria, stages, and feed,
permeate and retantate section designs
• Modes of operation: Batch, one, two and multiple
stages
• Control schemes: Instruments for control and
process monitoring
• Review of commercial systems
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| 9:30 |
Parameter Optimization, System Design and
Components for Continuous Membrane System,
(Dr. Navpreet Singh)
• Automation of membrane systems
• Selection of proper components
• Factors affecting optimal processing conditions
• Volumetric concentration factors
• Design of multi-stage systems |
| 10:30 |
Coffee/Tea Break
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11:00
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Membrane Modules Systems,
(Dr. Sefa Koseoglu)
• Membrane modules:
• Tubular Membranes
• Hollow fiber membranes
• Plate and frame membranes
• Fine hollow fiber membranes
• Spiral membranes
• Ceramic and metallic membranes
• Solvent stable membranes
• Review of new membrane technologies |
|
11:30 |
How to Run a Pilot
Experiment, (Dr. Sefa Koseoglu)
•Preparation
for successful pilot experiments
• Data collection
• Optimizing pilot testing
• Fouling Studies
• Scale-up data collection
• Volumetric
concentration tests
• Membrane screening test
• Evaluation and interpretation of data |
|
12:00 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 |
Ceramic Membranes: Membrane
Selection, Design and New Case Studies, (Mr.
Peter Bolduan)
• Ceramic membrane materials
and their properties
• Successful application
in solvent purification (IPA)
• Other applications
in chemical industries
• Waste Water Treatment:
Review of most recent applications |
| 14:00 |
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| 14:30 |
Tubular Membranes: Design and
Applications, (Mr. Lewis Pain)
• Tubular
Membranes and Modules
• Case Studies: Antioxidant
Manufacturing
• Case Studies: Mineral Removal
and Desalting
• Case Studies: Waste Water from
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing |
| 15:00 |
Coffee/Tea Break
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15:30
|
Stainless Steel Membranes
and Their Applications,
Mr. Scott Wittwer)
• Membrane construction, materials, and module
design
• Multi stage systems, cleaning strategies, steam
treatments,
• Applications in PVA concentration, catalyst
recovery and metal finishing
• Applications i starch, wine, textile, sugar,
applications fruit juice
• How to use them in difficult streams
|
16:00
|
How to Prevent Fouling and Fundamentals
of Membrane Cleaning, (Dr. Gerold Luss)
• Process streams have the potential for massive
membrane fouling
• Membrane cleaning is intimately
related to feed stream properties and composition
• Successful Cleaning depends on knowledge of feed
stream chemistry
• Membrane materials and cleaning
• Common membrane "killers"
• Incorrect chemical, temperature and pH control
• Microbiological fouling
• Cleaning water quality |
| 16:30 |
Pervaporation Membranes for
Vapor and Liquid Separations,
(Dr. Sefa Koseoglu)
• Basic principles of Pervaporation
• Pervaporation membranes
• Performance criteria
• Applications: Water and organic removal
• Pervaporation and and Vapor Permeation
• Batch and Continuous Pervaporation
• Hybrid Systems: Distillation and Pervaporation
• Azeotrope Separations
• Case Studies: Ester Production, and methanol
azeotrope |
| 17:00 |
New Membrane Products for the
Beverage Industry,
(Mr. Carl R. Hoffman)
• Market opportunities
drive the development for new membranes
• Increasing
processing yields in juice clarification applications
• Combine filtration and absorbent technology higher
quality juice |
| Friday,
May 19, 2006 |
| 8:00 |
Shear Common
Sense - Effective Membrane Application,
(Mr. Tom Wigfield)
• How to design, coordinate, and execute membrane
application tests
• Critical parameters and pitfalls
• Case Studies: Vibrating Membranes - PallSep™
Vibrating Membrane Filter and Applications
• Case Studies: Plate and Frame Systems - ROCHEM
Technology and Applications |
|
8:45 |
Modification
of Membranes to Produce "Low Fouling Membranes" and/or
"High Selectivity / Flux Membranes" : Processing
of Difficult Food Streams, (Mr. Sohail Mirza)
• Reasons for Fouling
• Effects of Surfactants
and surface charges of the polymeric membranes
•
Modification of membranes to produce "Low Fouling
Membranes"
• Specifications of modified
membranes
• Case studies: Waste water from agricultural
facility |
|
9:15 |
Chemically
Stable Nanofiltration Membranes: Review of Case Studies
with Acidic, Basic and Solvent Systems for Chemical Industries,
(Dr. Jorge Yacobowicz)
• Chemically stable Nanofiltration
membranes and products
• Applications of chemically
stable membranes
• Case studies: Concentration
of Synthetic Penicillin, CIP Reclamation, and Organic
Liquid Streams
• Case studies: Alkaline Recovery |
|
10:00 |
Coffee/Tea
Break |
| 10:30
|
New Developments
and Applications in Electrodialysis,
(Mr.Jamie Vinsant)
• Anionic-Exchange membranes
• Cationic-Exchange membranes
• ED Cell Configurations and Stack Assembly
• Electrodialysis theory
• Case Study: Salt recovery and Baby Food Demineralization
• Commercialization and cost
• Emerging Technologies: Electrodeionization and
Bipolar ED |
| 11.00 |
Membrane Cleaning
and Sanitizing - Common Mistakes,
(Mr. Dennis L. Schmidt)
• Obvious Mistakes
• Cleaning Failure or Operator Failure
• Microbe in a Membrane System
• Is it Dirty or
Is it Fouled
• Cleaning Water
• Record
keeping and cleaning regimen |
| 12:00 |
Lunch (In order to
facilitate individual discussions among attendees and
speakers NO formal lunch planned) |
| 13:30
|
Appointments
(15 minutes) with Individual Equipment and Membrane Companies
(In order to set up an appointment you must register
for the short course and make the appointment one week
prior to the short course and will be on first come, first
served basis). |
| 16:00 |
The following
companies will be available for further discussions with
attendees. |
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Mr. Peter Bolduan,
Managing Director, Atech Innovations Gmbh, Germany
Mr. Mike Grigus, Sales Engineer, Niro
Corporation, USA
Mr. Carl R. Hoffman,
Business Manager, Food/Dairy & Beverage, Koch Membrane
Systems, USA
Dr. S. Sefa Koseoglu,
President, Filtration and Membrane World LLC, USA
Dr. Gerold Luss, Technical Director,
Complete Filtration Resources Inc., USA
Mr. Sohail Mirza, President, Somicon AG, Switzerland
Mr. Lewis Paine, National Sales
Manager, PCI Membrane Systems Inc., USA
Mr. Dennis L. Schmidt, Manager Tech Service,
Membrane Systems, DiverseyLever, USA
Dr. Navpreet
Singh, Senior Separation Scientist, The Solae
Company, USA
Mr. Jamie Vinsant, Applications Engineer,
Ionics Inc., USA
Mr. Tom Wigfield, VP Marketing, Pall Corporation,
USA
Mr. Scott Wittwer, Product Manager,
Graver Technologies, USA
Dr. Jorge Yacubowicz,
Business Manager, Koch Membrane Systems, USA |
| New Topics to be Included |
Technologies for Bottled Drinking Water, and Functional and Specialty Beverages
New Wine and Beer Applications
Unique Waste Water Treatment Technologies
Cheese Dairy Applications
Emerging Membrane Technologies in Oils and Fats
Membranes Suitable for Sugar and HFCS Processing
Purification
Use of Membranes in Biotechnology Applications - High Value Proteins, Enzymes and Other Bioactives
Nanotechnology and Membranes for Food Applications
Acid and Caustic Recovery with Membranes
None-Aqueous Applications of Membranes
Removal of Haze and Particulates from Liquid Streams
Membrane Bioreactors and Commercial Applications |
| Registration
Rates |
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Registration rate includes short course manuals, lunch
and coffee breaks: $795 |
| Contact
Information for Registrations |
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Ms. Keri Wrobel
BNP Media - Events
1710 N. Whipple, Chicago, IL 60647
Office: 773.227.1044
Fax: 248.786.1420
Toll Free Number: 1-888-530-6714
E-mail; wrobelk@bnpmedia.com
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| Hotel
Information |
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In order to receive special guest room rate,
please refer to
"FOOD ENGINEERING MAGAZINE MEMBRANE SHORT COURSE"
when you make reservations.
Single/Double Room U.S. $129 |
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| Registration forms
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