Gas Solid Separation with Cyclones

Gas Solid Separation with Cyclones is one of ten short courses that the American Filtration and Separation Society (AFS) will be offering during its 20^th Annual Conference being held March 26-30, 2007 in Orlando, Florida.

Gas Solid Separations with Cyclones is a four hour course that is being held 8:00 am to Noon on March 26^th. Attendees are awarded a certificate with .4 CEUs.

For registration and more information go to:

http://www.afssociety.org/shortcourse/

Professor B. Pitchumani and Dr. R. Pitchumani are the instructors for the course. Professor B. Pitchumani is head of the Particle Science and Technology Laboratory in Chemical Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India. Dr. R. Pitchumani is a post doctoral research fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, USA.

The training course will cover:

Types of reverse flow cyclones

Performance characteristics

The effect of design variables

The effect of operating variables

Design of cyclone procedure

The effect of inlet duct shape

The importance of auxiliaries

Importance of Vortex breaker

Uniflow cyclone performance

Uniflow cyclone application

Applications of reverse flow cyclone

There will be case studies for the following industries:

Pharmaceutical

Cement

Coal Thermal Station

Mineral

Dairy

Polymer

Following the AFS short courses is the AFS 20^th Annual Conference that consists of dozens of technical presentations on filtration and separation. The conference runs March 27-29. The event is co-located with the WQA Aquatech 2007 exhibit that runs March 28-30.

For registration and more information go to:

http://www.afssociety.org/shortcourse/