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Reed
receives prestigious 'Solids Handling Award'
 London,
England -- Prof. Alan Reed of the University of Greenwich
has been presented with the Institution of Mechanical
Engineers' Bulk Materials Handling Committee's prestigious
Solids Handling Award, recognizing his valuable contribution
to the powder and bulk handling and processing sector.
Currently Director of Regional
Liaison (Kent and Medway) and Professor, Medway School of
Engineering at the University of Greenwich, his long and
illustrious career has been strongly associated at all
stages with research projects that are directly beneficial
to industry, working with a long list of industrial partners
over the years.
In 1989 he was instrumental in
establishing the Wolfson center for Bulk Solids Handling
Technology, attracting financial support from the Wolfson
Foundation and developing it into one of the world's leading
research groups in its field. In excess of £3m of external
funding has been attracted to undertake research from
organizations such as the EPSRC, DTI, Department of Energy,
the Wolfson Foundation, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation,
HEFCE, PCFC and NAB, as well as industry.
One of the largest assignments
that Prof Reed has been involved in to date is the £1.4m
EPSRC funded Quality in Particulate Manufacturing (QPM)
project, initiated to develop techniques to preserve the
quality of particulate materials, such as cornflakes, muesli
and sugars, during manufacturing processes. Carried out in
association with the center of Numerical Modeling and
Process Analysis, University of Greenwich and Chemical and
Process Engineering, University of Surrey, the project
attracted an additional £1m of funding from industrial
partners that included GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, Tate and
Lyle, United Biscuits, Borax Europe and Morgan.
Particulate handling technology
developed during the project has already helped one UK-based
multinational pharmaceutical company to cut manufacturing
losses by £1m at a new processing plant. QPM is designed to
effectively reduce problems that can occur, such as lumping,
breakage and separation, when handling particulate
materials. Greenwich University's Wolfson center for Bulk
Solids Handling Technology has also been highly commended
for its work at an IChemE awards ceremony for innovation.
Source: Wolfson Center for Bulk
Solids Handling
Web site:
http://www.gre.ac.uk/wolfson |
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BulkEurope 2008 - Prague, Czech
Republic
 Wuerzburg,
Germany -- September 11th and 12th 2008 will see the second
edition of BulkEurope to take place in Prague, Czech
Republic. This event aims at bridging the gap between
academia and industry by providing a forum where new ideas,
concepts, methods and technologies are shared and exchanged
between academic institutions, engineering and consultancy
companies and end users of bulk material handling,
transporting and storing systems.
The
conference program covers all topics dealing with the
storing, handling and transporting bulk – from silo control
and emptying, pneumatic, mechanical and belt conveying to
heating and drying processes including technologies, methods
and measures used to reduce the generation of dust, spillage
and noise, as well as safety aspects.
The
International Conference & Exhibition BulkEurope 2008 will
provide a forum for scientific knowledge exchange as well as
for making new business contacts.
Visit
the exhibition co-located with the conference and keep
yourself up-to-date with the latest developments in the
field of bulk solids handling, make new contacts and refresh
the old ones!
Join
us in Prague for knowledge expansion and inspiring
discussions!
For
more information:
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New Martin 'Six Shooter' Air
Cannon System
 Neponset,
IL -- Martin Engineering, the world leader in air cannon
systems, has introduced the new Martin® Six Shooter™ Air
Cannon System, a patent-pending system with integral
controls that allows one air cannon to supply powerful
blasts to improve material flow at up to six points in a
vessel.
Air
cannons provide a powerful blast of air to improve the flow
of bulk materials through storage and process vessels.
Applications include the recovery of solids from storage
bins and silos and the elimination of buildups in cement
plant preheater towers.
The
Martin Six Shooter Air Cannon System uses double braided
stainless steel hoses to reach up to six discharge ports
from a central location. By serving multiple outlets from
one air reservoir, the Martin Six Shooter System is ideal
for installations where multiple discharge points are
located in close proximity.
By
separating the air cannon from the discharge points, the
Martin Six Shooter System shelters its working components
from dust, gases, and high temperature conditions, making it
a wise choice for high-temperature, high-dust, high-stress
applications.
With a
number of discharge points served from one air reservoir,
the Martin Six Shooter System simplifies installation and
maintenance procedures, and improves worker safety. Martin
Engineering also offers “turnkey” installation for all its
air cannon systems.
Founded in 1944, Martin Engineering is the world leader in
making bulk materials handling cleaner, safer, and more
productive. Martin Engineering technologies control dust and
spillage from belt conveyors and promote the movement of
bulk solids from storage and through industrial processes.
For
more information visit:
http://www.martin-eng.com/
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Cooling Rhenium with Screw Heat Exchanger
 Drunen,
The Netherlands -- Recently, °Celsius delivered a screw
heat exchanger to a client in Belgium which cools down
more than 2.000 kg Rhenium per hour which is coming out
of an incinerator from 850 °C to 150 °C.
The cooling is required
because the hot Rhenium can not be handled at the high
temperature. Rhenium is a raw material which is added to
all kinds of chemical processes in the metal industry in
order to add certain improving attributes to the metal
to be produced, for instance, durability.
The °Celsius screw heat
exchanger consists of a large double-axis screw conveyor
with hollow blades, whereby each screw has a diameter of
more than 800 mm. The length of each screw is more than
8 meter and both the blades, the screw-axis and the body
are cooled by means of cooling water with a temperature
of > 20 °C.
Because the production
process is in production 24 hours a day/seven days a
week/50 weeks per year, production reliability has been
an absolute requirement of the client and with the
design °Celsius has tried to eliminate all potential
risks of failure.
°Celsius is the sister
company of the famous company Van Beek Schroeftransport,
which has been producing screw conveyors since 1939.
Based on its experience of many years °Celsius has
established itself in 2002 as an independent and
specialist unit for the development and realization of
thermal screws.
Web site:
http://www.celsius.nl/
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Reed receives prestigious 'Solids
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BulkEurope 2008 - Prague,
Czech Republic
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