New series of Powder Handling Workshops 25 – 28 February at Wolfson Centre

At the Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, we use many different processes and pieces of specialist equipment to characterise and test powders and particulates to identify why issues occur in their handling and flow. Testing of particle strength, size, wear, flowability, dustiness, to name a few, can all be undertaken in our pilot plant. Some of this equipment is not available anywhere else in the world.

Join our series of workshops to gain first-hand experience with some of the practices on offer.

Our experts will be on hand to demonstrate and guide attendees through the various sessions so that, by the end of each workshop, delegates will be armed with the knowledge to identify ways in which to prevent flow and handling issues occurring.
Each workshop can be attended as a stand-alone session and runs from 10am to 3pm each day.

Workshop Week:

Tuesday 25 February: Understanding Powder Flow
Course Leaders: Dr Vivek Garg and Barry Ridley (Ametek)
Sessions covered: Measuring techniques, Case Studies, Testing, Analysis and Interpretation of data, Use of Virtual Tools

Wednesday 26 February: Characterisation Techniques
Course Leader: Dr Vivek Garg
Sessions covered: Case Studies, Particle Size Analysis, Particle Shape Analysis, Density Measurements, Use of data to solve the case study, Use of Virtual Tools

Thursday 27 February: Dust Containment Methods and Filtration
Course Leader: Dr Baldeep Kaur
Sessions covered: Dust emission and dust extinction moisture measurements, Filter media, Particle size analysis wt basis and volume basis, Impact of degradation and segregation on dust generation, Measures to reduce dust generation in processes

Friday 28 February: Segregation Methods
Course Leader: Dr Vivek Garg
Sessions covered: Measuring Techniques, Case Studies, Testing, Analysis and Interpretation of data, Use of Virtual Tools
PPE will be provided for all attendees.

Full details and online registration can be found here. Registration fees begin at £485 per person. We would be pleased to look at options for group bookings, although numbers will be limited for each session for H&S reasons.

Contact wolfson-enquiries@gre.ac.uk for more information.