12 - 13 October 2006 - Compiègne - France
Call for papers
ECFS2 (2nd European Conference on Filtration and Separation) will be held in Compiegne under the responsibility of the Filtration and Separation Working Party of European Federation of Chemical Engineering, Filtration Society, French Society “Génie de Procédés Industriels” and French Filtration Society, Pôle Régional “Génie des Procédés”, Institut de la Filtration et des Techniques Séparatives Liquide-Solide, University of Techology of Compiegne. 
The conference will be organized on the following topics : 
Towards predicting filtration and separation (including computer modeling, imaging, process monitoring, testing and validation, equipment selection) 
Technical developments in filter media (for example, in woven and non-woven media, membranes, composite media, filter aids) 
Advances in industrial filtration equipment (in, for example, thickeners, vacuum filters, pressure filters, filtering and sedimenting centrifuges, gaz filters, membrane filtration including microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nonofiltration, cyclones) 
Emergent technologies  (field assisted : electrical, magnetic, acoustic, vibrational methods in separation processes, and in pre-treatment / post-treatment operations ; bio- and chemical enhancement / coagulation and flocculation) 
New filtration and separation applications (in, for example, water and waste water treatment, paper making, chemical and food industries) 
The official language will be English 
The Conference includes 3 types of presentation : 
Invited papers on the main topics of the conference selected by the Scientific Committee 
Oral presentations 
Posters 
Proceedings
The Conference Proceedings will include the papers accepted by the Scientific Committee.
Selected papers from the Conference will be published in FILTRATION the international journal for filtration and separation). 
Authors have to follow these instructions. 
Registration fees
Standard registration (before 30 July 2006 ) : 350 euros 
Late registration (after 30 July 2006 ) : 390 euros 
Students (incl. PhD students) : 180 euros 
The registration fee includes attendance at all scientific sessions, the full proceedings of the conference, mid-session coffee breaks, lunches 12 and 13 October, cocktail at the City Hall and the dinner on Thursday evening. 
Registration form (paper) , or registration form (in line) 
Contacts
Organisation : 
ILC/pôle technologique 
Tel : 33 (0)3 44 23 45 10 
Fax : 33 (0) 44 86 39 46 
E-mail : ilc-congres@utc.fr  Scientific Secretariat :
Jean-Louis Lanoiselle/Josette Lemaitre 
Tel : 33 (0)3 44 23 44 49 
Fax : 33 (0) 44 23 19 80 
E-mail : ecfs2@utc.fr 
http://www.utc.fr/ecfs2006/index.html