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Filtration Consultant and Expert

Steve Tarleton

The following papers have been authored or co-authored by Steve Tarleton and presented at conferences. A button link to a preprint version of each paper is provided and all can be viewed for free. For convenience the papers are grouped into 3 sections.

Topics in this section:

Solid/liquid separation; Cake filtration; Filtration of binary particle mixtures; Process modelling of filters; Filter cake consolidation, deliquoring and washing; Selection, scale-up and simulation of filters and separators; Computer software.

Equipment selection and process design for solid/liquid separation

Electrically enhanced removal of solutes from filter cakes

Computer software for the specification of separation equipment

The use of stepped pressure tests in filtration scale-up

New software for the selection of solid/liquid separation equipment

The influence of sedimentation during downward cake filtration

A philosophy for the selection, scale-up and process simulation of filters

Prediction of process scale vacuum filter cycles from laboratory scale tests

Software applications in filter control, data acquisition and data analysis

The control of pressure in constant rate cake filtration

Pressure leaf filter control and the prediction of performance

The use of fractal dimensions in filtration

Predicting the performance of pressure driven filters

Using tomography to interpret the filter cycle

A mechatronics approach to solid/liquid separation

The importance of cake compressibility in deadend pressure filtration

Using chematronics to improve filtration equipment

Aspects of modelling in compressible filter cake formation

Understanding filter cake formation with electrical impedance measurements

The imaging of filter cakes through electrical impedance tomography

Influence of particulate and process variables in compressible cake filtration

Compressible cake filtration

A new experimental technique for the analysis of cake filtration

The simulation, modelling and sizing of pressure filters

Sensitivity analysis for solid/liquid separation equipment selection

Computer based selection of solid/liquid separation equipment

Expert system for solid/liquid separation equipment selection

Effects of particle surface properties on filter cake formation and consolidation

Effects of the solid/liquid interface in filter cake formation and consolidation

Modelling, simulation and process design of the filter cycle

The roles of particle and liquid properties in expression - Experimental study

Topics in this section:

Permeate flux and solute rejection in microfiltration and ultrafiltration; Charge modified membranes; Solvent resistant nanofiltration; Modelling of crossflow filtration; Use of electric, ultrasonic and magnetic fields in filtration and separation.

Catalyst crosslinked membranes for use in solvent resistant nanofiltration

Nanofiltration: Improving the purity of fuels and non-aqueous solvents

Solvent resistant nanofiltration: Understanding transport mechanisms

Nanofiltration - a method for solute removal from fuel simulants

Materials for the nanofiltration of organic/organic liquids and scaleup options

Swelling effect in non-aqueous nanofiltration with PDMS membranes

The removal of solutes from organic solvents using nanofiltration

New method for the evaluation of swelling in polymer membranes

Nanofiltration
of organic solvents

Using particle-liquid interfacial phenomena to augment crossflow microfiltration

Crossflow micro- and ultrafiltration augmented by electric and ultrasonic fields

Using particle-liquid interfacial phenomena in augmented filtration

Electro-acoustic crossflow microfiltration

Factors affecting the fouling of membranes in crossflow microfiltration

The relevance of fouling models to crossflow microfiltration

Colloidal fouling of microfiltration membranes during the treatment of aqueous feeds

Microfiltration enhancement by electrical and ultrasonic force fields

Modelling crossflow electro- and micro- filtrations

Experiments using electricity to prevent fouling in membrane filtration

Topics in this section:

Extraction; Fractal dimensions of agglomerates; Gas filtration.

Effect of face velocity, pleat density and pleat orientation on HEPA filter performance

Characterising Kuwaiti atmospheric dust & synthetic dusts: Effects on HEPA filters

Effect of pleat count & air velocity on the pressure drop & efficiency of HEPA filters

Separation of pharmaceutical products with reverse micelles

Fractal properties of 2 & 3 dimensional simulated agglomerates

Fractal dimensions of computer simulated agglomerates

Colloid science in solid/liquid separation technology - Is it important?

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