Wastewater Treatment & Filtration

Wastewater Treatment & Filtration 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.

Wastewater Treatment & Filtration is an eight hour course that is being held 8:00 am to 5:00 pm on March 26^th. Attendees are awarded a certificate with .8 CEUs.

You will learn wastewater treatment from biological treatment to sludge handling. State of the art sludge handling technology will be presented along with effective effluent control.

For registration and more information go to:

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

Stephen Constable and Dr. Ernest Mayer are the instructors for the course.

Stephen Constable is a senior consultant in the Wastewater Group in DuPont Engineering Research & Technology’s Environmental section. He has 22 years experience in wastewater treatment operations and design, with the last 17 years for DuPont Company’s business and production sites. Work experiences include developing numerous conceptual design and cost estimates for wastewater improvements; conducting treatability studies, assisting regulatory negotiations for water discharge permitting, assuring plant environmental compliance, and regulatory advocacy through various industry trade associations and professional organizations.

Dr. Ernie Mayer is a Senior Consultant with DuPont, Wilmington, DE specializing in SLS technology since 1980. He received his B.S. and M.S. Chem. Eng. Degrees from Columbia University, New York City, NY and Ph.D. in Chem. Eng. From U. of Delaware, Newark, DE. Dr. Mayer has a brilliant professional career, among his numerous awards are Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Deans’ Lists, 3 Eng. Excellence Awards, 7 Environmental Respect Awards; Class ‘A’ bonus, AFSS Frank Tiller award in 1996, AFSS Fellow award in 2000, and Lifetime Achievement award in 2005 (first non-academic to receive it). He is a member of AWWA, AlChE, WEF, and AFSS (Board of Directors since 1988, Chairman of Chapter Affairs/Users Committee; plus member of three other committees). He has organized/chaired three technical conferences and was the Co-chair of World Filtration Congress in 2004..

The training course will cover:

Wastewater Dewatering Equipment

Classification/Selection Schemes

Filter Presses

Centrifuges

Vacuum Filters

Belt Filter Presses

Leaf, Tubular Candle Filters

Rapid Setting Systems

Clarification of Liquids

Wastewater Filtration

Wastewater Dewatering – Testing

Biological Treatment Processes

Biological Sludge Management

Heavy Metals Removal Technologies

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/