Ken Sutherland

The rise of membrane bioreactors

The membrane bioreactor has become an important processing tool in the treatment of waste liquids and of suspensions of waste solids. Ken Sutherland reviews its history, looks at its current...

Medical: Filtration developments push healthcare improvements

This fourth article, in Ken Sutherland's series on the smaller end-use equipment application sectors, features the use of filtration equipment in the medical and healthcare sectors. These are vital to...

Mechanical engineering: The role of filtration in the machinery manufacturing industry

The next in Ken Sutherland's series of articles, on the smaller end-use equipment application sectors, features the use of filtration equipment in the manufacture of machinery, including the...

Food and beverage: Filtration in the food and beverage industries

In the second of his series of articles on the smaller end-use equipment application sectors, Ken Sutherland reviews the equipment marketplace for the processing and production of human and animal...

Mining and metallurgy: The role of filters in mining and quarrying

In the first of a series of articles, Ken Sutherland looks at one of the minor end-use sectors, which, although important industries in their own right, actually have relatively small shares of the...

Ken Sutherland's 'What's new' series on filtration and separation

In his series of articles, Ken Sutherland covers new developments in a number of broad classes of filtration and separation.

Performance of new membrane material

To match the series of articles appearing through 2009 in Filtration + Separation covering separation equipment, Ken Sutherland looks at recent developments in the key component of filtration...

Air and gas filtration industry developments

The next in Ken Sutherland's series of articles, covering progress in a number of broad classes of filtration and other separation equipment types, looks at recent developments in air and other gas...

Oil & Gas

Oil production: Filtration and efficient petroleum production

Ken Sutherland looks at the importance of filters in the production of crude oil, both on- and offshore.

Food & Beverage

Filtration and separation technology: What’s new with centrifuges?

Continuing his series of articles covering new developments in a number of broad classes of filtration and other separation equipment types, Ken Sutherland looks now at recent developments in...

Water and sewage: The membrane bioreactor in sewage treatment

The membrane bioreactor has become an important processing tool in the treatment of waste liquids. Ken Sutherland looks at its technology and applications.

Filtration overview: A closer look at depth filtration

Ken Sutherland looks at the characteristics of depth filtration, at the range of equipment used to implement the filtration process, and at how it is used, with a special look at biotechnological...