ERPT
Educational Resources
for Particle Technology

Since 1998 ERPT has provided on-line, just-in-time, world-wide, free-of-charge tutorials
in particle technology as a public service of the Particle Technology Forum of the AIChE.

TOPIC AREAS
The Significance of PT
Formation from Gas
Formation from Liquid
Comminution, Attrition
Size Enlargement
Particle Physics
Particle Characterization:
   Non-Optical Methods
   Optical Methods
Storage / Discharge:
   Mechanics: wall stress
   Dynamics: flow
Pneumatic Conveying
Fluidized Bed
Mixing
Separation by Size
P./Gas Separation
P./Liquid Separation
Dispersion in Fluids
Rheology
Reaction
Heating, Drying
Safety
Simulation, Modeling
Specific Applications
Outline of PT

Books on PT

Other Ed Resources:
      booklets
      technical reviews
      CDROM, video
      Web courses
      short courses
      museums
      teaching methods

Contents of ERPT
      Vol. 1 (1999)
      Vol. 2(1) (2001)
      Vol. 2(2) (2001)
      Vol. 3 (2002)
      Vol. 4 (2003)
      Vol. 5 (2005)

ERPT Authors' Guide
How ERPT Evolved


ERPT site WWW

technical publications and abstracts

What's Happened Lately? We have nothing new to report here as of 2008 September. The present plan is to maintain this site until 2010, with updates but no major extensions of material. Wikipedia is developing considerable material in the field of particle technology and may be a suitable replacement for this site, although the suppression of authorship and credentials and the lack of explicit review procedures and oversight and makes it hard to judge whether or not the material is reliable.
IN SEARCH OF AUTHORS: Have you prepared educational material in on some topic in Particle Technology? If so you may wish to consider publishing it in ERPT. See our guidelines for authors, read some of our articles, and then drop a note to the Managing Editor at erptmged@aol.com
WHAT IS ERPT? ERPT was launched in 1998 as a public education service of the Particle Technology Forum, a technical division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. This Web site provides on-line, just-in-time, world-wide, free-of-charge tutorials in particle technology as a public service. Our goal is to build a site that will eventually provide several hundred tutorials, each equivalent to one to three hours of classroom instruction at the third-year college level. These will be introductory in nature and in the ideal case will describe the main phenomenological and theoretical aspects of the topic, also noting industrial applications, large-scale equipment, typical industrial problems, and typical solutions to those problems.

ERPT provides
-- tutorials at the undergraduate and graduate level
-- ideas and examples for enriching classes and laboratories
-- typical solutions for common industrial problems
Professional oversight is provided by the Particle Technology Forum, a technical division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Web site design, editing, and maintainance is provided by
      Dr. Ralph D. Nelson, Jr., P.E., the Managing Editor of ERPT

Explanations and Disclaimers
Questions? Email the Managing Editor at
URL: http://www.erpt.org/default.htm