Ken Sutherland

Water & Wastewater

50 years of developments in filtration: Ten of the best

In our series of articles celebrating the 50th anniversary of Filtration+Separation, Ken Sutherland suggests a 'Top Ten' of equipment developments, including people and events that have had a major...

Bulk and fine chemicals: Hazardous and aggressive environment filtration

One of the features of the chemicals sector (especially its bulk, fine and petrochemicals components) that distinguishes it from the remainder of industrial processing is the frequent occurrence of...

Drinking and pure water: Filtration improvements progress global clean water provision

Water is a vital resource – literally and metaphorically – for human life and for most human activity. As a resource it is largely undervalued, until it becomes scarce, when it could easily become...

Oil and gas: Separation processes in oil and gas extraction

The systems involved in the extraction of crude oil and natural gas from their sources are a vital industrial application for filtration and related separation equipment. The processes involved are in...

Energy materials processing: Filtration and the fuels of the future

The processing of the fossil energy materials – coal, oil and gas – is an important industrial sector for the employment of separation equipment. To these fossil fuels have been added the renewable...

Electrical and electronics: Filtration is key for electrical equipment and semiconductors

In the final article in a series looking at the smaller end-use application sectors for filtration and separation equipment, Ken Sutherland reviews the manufacture of electrical and electronic...

Separation activities in wood pulp and paper making

This last-but-one article, in Ken Sutherland's series on the smaller end-use equipment application sectors, covers the uses in the whole forest products sector, which effectively means the manufacture...