Conference Speakers

Gurminder Minhas

Managing Director, Performance BioFilaments Inc

 Gurminder Minhas is a business and technical development specialist, with extensive experience in biofuels, biochemicals, chemical recycling, pulp and paper industries. He is well versed in new technology development in the chemical sciences space, as well as growing technologies from lab, into pilot scale then on toward commercialization. As Managing Director of Performance BioFilaments, Gurminder is responsible for developing commercial opportunities for nano-fibrillated cellulose products in filtration media, reinforced plastic composites and chemical applications.

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Wednesday 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Learning Luncheon

Nanofibrillated Cellulose for Improved Filter Media

Recent advancements towards commercial production and scale up of nano-fibrillated cellulose (NFC) have increased the opportunities for using these unique biomaterials to improve the performance and sustainability of filtration media. The presentation will summarize recent activities of Performance BioFilaments toward the commercial development of nano-fibrillated cellulose and its use as a functional additive in air laid and wet laid filtration media and engineered fabrics. The extremely high aspect ratio and surface area of nano-fibrillated cellulose allows for network formation of the nano-fibrils amongst other larger fibers. This enables the tailoring of pore sizes in the media, as well as increases in the bond strength between the larger fibers in the network. Combined, these two effects could result in improved filtration performance as well as improvements in the fiber network strength

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