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Engineering Merit Award, left to right: Bill Midgette, CEO, Porex Corporation;
Ernie Mayer, Jeff Williams, VP/General Manager, Porex Filtration.
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over the years with a number of old
photographs of early events and participants
were also highlighted.
Forty-six AFS Corporate Sponsors
were presented 2012 Sponsorship
plaques for their continuing support
of the Society. Will Sarni of Deloitte
gave a compelling keynote address
on the topic of 21st Century Water –
Opportunities and Risks. All conference
attendees received a special AFS
25th Anniversary lapel pin as a memento
of the event.
Wednesday began with three plenary
speakers speaking on the topics
of Germicidal Irradiation and Surface
Disinfection, Liquid Filters in a
Green Environment and IP Protection
in China. The two-track session
platform continued Tuesday with session
on the subjects of Liquid Filtration,
Modeling/Design, Porous Metal
Filters and Engine Filtration. Prior to
the Tuesday luncheon Awards Banquet,
Deloitte’s Will Sarni, the 25th
Anniversary banquet speaker, hosted
a two-hour meeting for AFS corporate
sponsors where he went into
greater depth and answered attendee
question on the topic of water and its
implications on companies and society
in general. In what has become a
popular and continuing program at
each spring AFS conference, Rob
Bender of Lydall, once again, organized
the Latest and Best session. The
program consisted of 10-minute fastpaced
presentations on commercial
products from 18 leading filtration
industry related companies. For the
newcomer to the industry—comments
were made by several attendees
that the value of the session was
worth the price of admission to the
entire conference. Tabletop displays
continued to be quite busy with attendee
traffic throughout the day.
At the Tuesday Awards luncheon,
recognition was given to a number of
current and emerging industry leaders.
They included: Young Scientist
Award to Mathias Stolarski, Senior
Scientist Award to Christine Sun, and
the Fellow Member Award to Kyung-
Ju Choi. The AFS Users Committee
presented the New Product of the
Year Award to IFTS Testing & Research
for their Global Fuel Water
Separation Filter Efficiency Test
Stand, and the Engineering Merit
Award to Porex Filtration for their
TMF 61 Tube Module. KJ Choi received
an award for serving as AFS
Chairman in 2011. In addition, Joe
Israel, Don Largent, Sean Meenan,
Christophe Peuchot, Hooman
Tafreshi and Peter Ping-Yi Tsai were
awarded for their service on the AFS
Board of Directors for 2010 and
2011.
Wednesday saw three additional
plenary speakers on the topics of
Membranes in our Future,
Nanofibers in Filtration, and Indoor
Air Quality. Sessions on Indoor Air
Quality and Nanofibers followed.
The next AFS conference will be
held at the Embassy Suites hotel this
fall at the Philadelphia airport October
15-18. The theme of the conference
is Innovation in Research and
Applications with a heavy emphasis
on the timely topics of Shale Gas,
Fracking and Produced Water Filtration
and Separations. The co-chairs
for the conference include: Mathias
Stolarski, DuPont; Karsten Keller,
Solae, LLC; Shagufta Patel, PECO-
Facet; and Colin Tyrie, Clean H2O
Services, Inc.
The American Filtration & Separations Society
is the largest Filtration Society in the
world and the principal educator of the industry.
For further information, please visit
the AFS website: www.afssociety.org.
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