Chemical and Biological Engineering Students participate in the 2011 Granulation Workshop
June 2011, Lausanne, Switzerland
Not only was the Granulation 2011 Workshop organised and hosted by members of staff from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Faculty of Engineering, several of our students participated.
Presentations were given by some of our PhD students covering aspects of their current research:
Ranjit Dhenge: Twin screw wet granulation: Effects of liquid properties.
Kimiaki Washino: Meso-scale coupling model of DEM and CIP for nucleation processes in wet granulation.
Xavier Mesnier: A novel method to quantify tablet disintegration.
Christine Haider: Mechanical material properties and their influence on particle deformation and the formation of particle-particle contact points in agglomeration processes
Our students also presented the following posters:
Ranjit Dhenge: Twin screw granulation: Velocity of material.
James Osborne: Roller compaction: Change in particle bonding mechanisms with temperature.
Ei Leen Chan: Blade-granular bed stress in cylindrical high shear granulator: Online measurement.
Kimiaki Washino: DEM simulation of wet particles in a high shear mixer considering liquid bridge force.
Vikram Chouk: Effect of lubricant addition on granular velocity during early stage of tabletting &
Compact pore volume distribution and granular velocity during granular compaction.
Christine Haider: Influence of agglomeration process conditions on the sintering of amorphous model food particles.
Alessandra Alves Negreiros: Interactions of hydrophilic particles in hydrophobic media in presence of hydrophilic liquid - a preliminary study
Four poster competitions were held at the conference, sponsored by Unilever, GSK, TTC and RSC Process Technology Group.
Congratulations go to Christine Haider who won the ‘Special Award for Innovative Application of the Chemical Sciences to Granulation Technology’ and also to Ei Leen Chan, who won a prize for the ‘Best Pharmaceutically Relevant Poster’.
