 Staffan Linnersten TDC Filter Product Technology Manager Visit Website |
Born in Stockholm, Sweden Staffan Linnersten joined the Swedish Air Force as a Weapons and Aircraft Mechanic. Staffan graduated with a Masters of Mechanical Engineering Degree from Linkoping University in 1980. He started his professional career in Filtration in 1980 when he moved to the United States. Staffan developed a passion for all aspects of filtration and has for the past 31 years received exceptional training, knowledge and expertise in liquid, gaseous, coalescing and chemical filtration. The markets he has served include Aerospace, Military, Commercial, Agricultural, Industrial, Dust Collection and Environmental control.
His filtration experience include design, development, manufacturing, testing (laboratory and field), standards, qualification, durability, reliability, application, specifications (interpreting as well as writing), materials, industry and academic filtration organizations.
More than 20 of Staffan’s inventions resulted in US and International patents. These innovations range from Cabin Air Filters (Commercial Air Liners), Nested Filters (Concentric Conical and Cylindrical Filters), Chemical Filtration (personnel protection and Fuel Cell Technology), Air-Oil separation (air compressors) and Electrostatic dissipation of compressor fluid (flash fire prevention).
As Product Technology Manager at TDC Filter, Staffan is responsible for direction and oversight of all Product Technology including Research & Development, Product Engineering and Product Management.
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Dust Collection Q&A
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Is there any rule of thumb for the length of a paint powder room to its width when a collector such as a Farr collector is in a corner discharging 15,000 cu ft/m along the length of the room to avoid a venturi effect in the two powder booths? The room proposed is to be 24 ft wide x 80 ft long.Answered February 9th, 2012 by Expert:Each situation is different depending on the discharge velocity, proximity to structures that will cause turbulence, change in velocity and direction of the air flow. It is important to insure that there are no “hot spots” in terms of flow velocities and changes in velocity as well as direction in the booth.
It is therefore never a bad idea to control flow velocities (ducting sizes at the discharge) and flow directions (baffles, vanes, flow directors) to create the motion of the air that is desired for the paint booth.