We are honored to have Dr. Thomas Caesar, Vice President, Freudenberg Filtration Technologies, speaking from Germany in the session of Regulatory Trends and Standards Updates at the upcoming World Filtration Institute 2024 Annual Conference (WFI 2024), December 3–4, 2024, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST.
Dr. Caesar is a renowned air filtration expert with almost 25 years of experience in the global filtration industry. He received a diploma in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Karlsruhe and his doctorate degree in thermodynamics and fluid dynamics from the University of Aachen (RWTH). Since 1999, Dr. Caesar has been employed by Freudenberg Filtration Technologies, a globally leading manufacturer of filtration solutions, where he has held various positions in sales and engineering. As Vice President Global Filter Engineering Industrial, he is currently responsible for the global technical product management and filter engineering in industrial filtration.
Dr. Caesar is actively contributing to industry guidelines at VDI, VDMA, and Eurovent. He co-authors various European standards at CEN and international standards at ISO. In ISO, he serves as Convenor of WG12 “Sustainability” and was as project leader of part 1, intensely involved in the development of ISO 16890. Dr. Caesar is Chairman of the Product Committee “Air Filters” at Eurovent Certita Certification and Vice Chairman of the Product Group “Air Filter” at Eurovent Association.
Date: December 4, 20240
Time: 9:35AM - 09:50AM EST
Title: Future ISO standards on sustainable air filtration
Abstract: Sustainability in air filtration is gaining more and more importance, but there is still little standardization on how to assess this topic. The carbon foot print of an air filter is on one hand defined by its raw material, production and transportation. But this portion only makes about 10% of the overall carbon foot print of filtration. Carbon foot print is important to protect our climate, but climate action is only one out of the 17 sustainability goals of the united nations. There are other important goals like good health and well-being, quality education or sustainable cities and communities, just to name some. The aim of air filtration is in very close alliance with most of these goals, hence, air filters by nature are sustainable with their handprint. It is a classical engineering task to maximize the ratio of handprint to footprint. To help engineers to assess this task in a standardised way and to hand them the right tools, CEN and ISO are working on new standards to achieve this goal. In Europe, the European Standardization Organisation (CEN) with its working group (WG) 7 as part of the technical committee (TC) 195 is working on standards to define the content of Environmental Product Declarations (EPD). In parallel, the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) is working in WG12 within the technical committee (TC) 142 on standards to assess the life cycle cost, energy consumption and the life cycle assessment of air filters.
About WFI 2024:
The World Filtration Institute 2024 Annual Conference (WFI 2024) will be held online, December 3–4, 2024, from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST. The theme of this conference is "Sustainable Filtration Solutions for a Cleaner and Healthier World." It will be an internationally leading expert conference addressing the latest advances in filtration and separation technologies and their critical roles in healthy living, surrounding environments, and a clean, sustainable world for current and future generations. The virtual conference will feature the following sessions:
1. Sustainable Filtration for A Healthier Indoor Environment
2. Filtration Advances for Emerging Technologies
3. Innovative Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Filtration
4. Circular Economy and Sustainable Water Solutions
5. Regulatory Trends and Standards Updates
6. Artificial Intelligence in Advanced Filtration Solutions
