NoFS

The Nordic Filtration Society

Wish you

A Happy New Year

The Nordic Filteration Society is a Chapter of the Filtration Society and it was founded in Gothenburg on August 1, 1995 in connection with the 1st Nordic Filtration Symposium. The inaugural meeting was supervised by the "godfathers" Cyril Smith (Chairman of the Filtration Society, UK) and Dr. Albert Rushton.

The basic objective for the Nordic Chapter is to arrange Nordic Filtration Symposia and thus to offer a forum where to discuss "Nordic" solid/fluid separation problems, to establish a Nordic filtration information network and to stimulate contacts between Nordic industries, research institutes and universities.

Like the Filtration Society itself (formed in London 1964) NoFS will be involved in all kinds of techniques used to remove contaminants and products from either a gas or a liquid. Some examples:

Industrial gas cleaning

Water purification

Vacuum and pressure filtration

Filter media

Membrane filtration

Settlers

Cyclones

Centrifuges

Scrubbers

The Filtration Society arranges seminars, symposia, and conferences and informs on all kinds of continuing development work. If you want to join the Filtration Society and the Nordic Filtration Society, you will have a cost effective way of keeping up to date with the developments in separation technology. As a further benefit you will receive the outstanding journal “Filtration” incorporating the transactions with refereed scientific papers. Application forms and other details can be found on the homepage of the Filtration Society Please mark that you would like to belong to the Nordic Chapter of the Filtration Society, NoFS.

The committee for 2007-2008 is:

Torleiv Bilstad, HiS, member email: torleiv.bilstad@uis.no

Bjarne Ekberg, Larox, treasurer email: bjarne.ekberg@larox.com

Urban Grén, Chalmers , member email: urban.gren@chemeng.chalmers.se

May-Britt Hägg, NTNU, member email: may-britt.hagg@chembio.ntnu.no

Gunnar Jonsson, DTU, chaiman email: gj@kt.dtu.dk

Mårten Lykkegaard, AAU, member email: mlc@bio.aau.dk

Marianne Nyström, LUT, member email: marianne.nystrom@lut.fi

Hans Theliander, Chalmers, secretary email: hanst@chemeng.chalmers.se

Events:

The second Nordic event was the2nd Nordic Filtration Symposium with 55 participants 11-13 August 1996 in Lappeenranta, Finland. The Third Symposium was enjoyed in Copenhagen on May 26-27, 1997. The 4th symposium was in Stavanger May 25-26, 1998 and the 5th symposium was held in Gothenburg August 26-27, 1999 and the 6th symposium took place in Lappeenranta on August 21-22, 2000 with some 100 participants. The 7th symposium was arranged in Copenhagen on August 27-28, 2001. In 2002 NoFS took part in arranging the first European Conference on Filtration and Separation in Gothenburg together with the Filtration Society. The 9^th symposium was arranged together with CST in Lappeenranta in 2005. The 10^th symposium was arranged in Trondheim 2006.

The next meeting of NoFS AGM will be held in Copenhagen in connection with the 11^th Nordic Filtration Symposium which is planned to be held in August 25-26, 2008.

It should be noted that you are welcome to participate in the symposia and other events arranged by NoFS also as a non-member.

Other interesting events:

10^th World Filtration Congress, Leipzig, April 14-18, 2008 (www.wfc10.com)

For further information please contact
the Secretary (hanst@chemeng.chalmers.se) or Urban Grén

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