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Nanofiber filtration challenges and opportunities
Earlier this year during a conversation with our sister publication, International Fiber Journal, R Vijayakumar, Ph.D., president of AERFIL, chair of the IFN peer-review program and one of our editorial …
‘Protecting places and spaces’ – Lydall drives on innovation as filtration rises into the mainstream consciousness
Lydall, Inc., headquartered in Manchester, Conn., has global manufacturing operations producing specialty engineered products for the thermal/acoustical and filtration/separation markets. The company’s Performance Materials business segment includes filtration media solutions …
Student Spotlight: Highly selective membrane filtration
Ryan DuChanois is a fourth-year graduate student at Yale University, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in chemical and environmental engineering under the supervision of Professor Menachem Elimelech. Prior to …
A sea change in the filter industry is underway
The true cost of one filter as opposed to another has been traditionally limited to considerations of energy cost vs performance. Health has been a factor in filter decisions, but …
Why is meltblown the material of choice for PPE and facemasks?
Meltblown has risen from a commodity nonwoven material for select applications to front-and-center in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Meltblown is created via an integrated extrusion process. It utilizes …