Americas -- North, Central, South
Latin America
Centro Latino Americano de Technologia de Particulas (CLAPARTEC)
-- Email the coordinator, Prof. Jose Sorrentino, at sorrentj@ucv.ve
United States
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Granular Flows Group has
-- numerous videos showing particle behaviour
(real and simulated) in vibration, shear flow, and hopper flow
-- links (most no longer working) to many research centers
Florida, University of
Engineering Research Center for Particle Science And Technology
Illinois Inst. of Technology
Powder Materials Lab
-- powder metallurgy
Massachusetts: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
Carl Gunnard Johnson Powder Metallurgy Research Center
projects incluide Density Distribution in Powder Metal Compacts:
Prediction & Control
Minnesota, University of
Direct Stimulation of the Motion of Particles in Flowing Liquids
Center for Interfacial Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
New Jersey Center for Engineered Particulates
New York, State University of (SUNY) at Stony Brook
Center for Thermal Spray Research
Pennsylvania State University (PSU)
Particulate Materials Center
Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh
Granular Transport Group
Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Minnesota
Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing
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Asia
Japan
Assoc. for Powder Processing and Industrial Equipment
Kyoto
Association of Powder Process Industry and Engineering
The Society of Powder Technology
Tokyo
Information Center of Particle Technology
The Powder Page, by Y. Taguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
has
-- video simulations of mixing and flow
-- links to research centers (longer than on this page)
-- links to lists of papers in journals covering Powder Technology
-- list of researchers (with Email, does not list specific interests)
Yamamoto Lab at Soka Univ. (English version)
-- novel preparations of immobilized enzymes, electrostatics:
computations and measurement via AFM
Powder Technology Lab at Himeji Institute of Technology (Univ. of Hyogo)
has a video of simulated deagglomeration in a flow field
and tutorials in Japanese on 1) How to Measure Powder Properties
and 2) How to Pack Powder
Australia and New Zealand
Newcastle, Australia
The University of Newcastle Research Associates (TUNRA)
Bulk Solids Handling Research Associates
Fine Particles Services Division
Wollongong, University of, Australia
Centre for Bulk Solids & Particulate Technologies
-- Pneumatic Conveying, Bin Design, Dust, Fume Control,
Explosions, and Flow Properties of Particles
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Europe and Africa
Europe
Solids Processing Industrial Network (SPIN)
-- a consortium of industries that funds projects
to solve commercially important problems involving solids.
Germany
Braunschweig, Technische Universitat
-- comminution, bulk solids technology and biology process technology.
Topics are listed for courses in Plant Design, Mechanical
Process Engineering, Bulk Solids Technology, and Particle Size Analysis.
Duisburg: Gerhard-Mercator Univ. Computational Physics Group
Fraunhofer Institut Chemische Technologie -- joint government-
and industry-funded research on high-energy products, environmental
engineering, polymer technology, applied electrochemistry, chemical
fuels/propellants, explosives, and airbags
Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
-- Comminution / Multiphase flow / Particle separation methods /
Particle Synthesis / Product Engineering / Interfaces.
Topics are listed for courses in Fundamentals of Particle Technology,
Process design, Sizing of equipment, and Particle Characterisation
Hungary
Research Institute of Chemical and Process Engineering
-- Integrated bioconversion systems, fluidized bed bioreactors,
enzyme-membrane bioreactors, membrane separation processes,
reversed micellar systems, enzyme-catalyzed esterifications
and oxidation reactions, new type biocrystals, utilization
of agricultural wastes, environmental engineering, biological
waste water treatment, microwave-assisted reactions, synthesis
of bioactive and other organic compounds in bench and pilot plant scale.
Netherlands
Delft University of Technology
-- Tomography, Light scattering, Aerosol time of flight mass /
photo-correlation spectroscopy, Particle strength, Electrohydrodynamic atomisation,
Granulation, Crystallisation, Ignition / flame propagation gas /
dust explosions at high T/P, Cool flames, Knowledge systems for safe process design
http://www.tnw.tudelft.nl/delftchemtech/researchgroups/part.html
Norway
Powder Science and Technology (POSTEC)
-- Telemark Institute of Technology: research and industrial consultation
on characterisation, storage, transport and processing
of particulate materials with sizes between 0-10 mm
United Kingdom
Cambridge: Department of Chemical Engineering -- University of Cambridge
Exeter: The Particle and Colloid Engineering Group (PACE)
Exeter/Leeds/UMIST: The Virtual Center for Industrial Process Tomography (VCIPT)
-- a joint project of (1) The University of Exeter (microtomography
and on-line data interpretation and control strategies),
(2) the University of Leeds (development of ultrasonic process tomography),
and (3) UMIST (development of electrical sensing technologies).
Leeds: Institute for Particle Science and Technology
-- This joint alliance with BNFL has a strong tradition
of particle science in ceramics, catalysis, fuels, combustion,
computational fluid dynamics & mineral processing.
This is being expanded to include molecular chemical engineering,
pharmaceutical engineering, particle simulation and biosciences
Surrey: Particulate and Multiphase Process Engineering
-- University of Surrey: fan beam tomographic scanner, powder
agglomerate disintegration, direct measurements of adsorbed moisture
on crystalline fine powders and quantification of interparticle forces
using AFM studies, combined DEM simulation and experimental strategy
for solving cohesive fine powder flow problems, finite element modelling
using novel adaptive mesh calculations of the electrostatic interactions
between charged particles and surfaces (with abstracts of a dozen projects)
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