Solid-Liquid Filtration

1. Introduction 2. Filtration Testing 3. Types of Filtration Systems 4. Combination Filtration 5. Filtration Selection 6. Commissioning and Operation 7. Conclusion

Barry A. Perlmutter is President of Perlmutter & Idea Development LLC, P&ID. He has 40 years of technical engineering and business marketing experience in solid-liquid separation, filtration, centrifugation, and process drying. His skills focus on process solutions, innovation strategy and business development and market expansion. Barry has published and presented worldwide and is responsible for introducing many European technologies into the marketplace. He is an author of Elsevier's "Solid-Liquid Filtration: Practical Guides in Chemical Engineering? and a new E-book "Framework for Selecting Automated Filtration Technologies for Clarification Applications .?

Barry began his career with the US Environmental Protection Agency and then entered the world of solid-liquid separation at Pall Corporation. For eleven years, he continued at Rosenmund Inc. as VP of Engineering and Sales including Comber and Guedu Dryers and Ferrum Centrifuges. From the process industries, Barry joined Process Efficiency Products, now part of Amiad USA, as a Director of Marketing and Sales for the manufacturing of filtration, separation and adsorption technologies for cooling tower and HVAC water, process fluids, and water and wastewater treatment. He then became President & Managing Director of BHS-Filtration Inc. (BHS-Sonthofen Inc.) where he grew the filtration, drying, mixing and recycling business of BHS for more than 20 years including the integration of AVA GmbH dryers. His current company, P&ID, allows Barry to provide consulting services for process and project development with operating companies and business development, marketing & sales strategies for process technology suppliers.

He received a BS degree in Chemistry from Albany State (NY) University, MS degree from the School of Engineering at Washington University, St. Louis and an MBA from the University of Illinois, Chicago.