Multiphase mixing

Chair

Piero Armenante  

Co-chair

Richard Cop

08:00 - 08:35

Alberto Brucato, Full Professor of Chemical Plant Design, Università degli Studi di Palermo

Mixing in unbaffled stirred vessels (KEYNOTE)

08:35 - 09:00

Andrzej W. Pacek, Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham

Ping Ding, Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham

Mark Garrett, Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queens University, Belfast

Alvin W. Nienow, Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham

Oxidations of bark suspensions in a stirred tank reactor

09:00 - 09:25

Raj Parthasarathy, Deputy Head, Chemical Engineering, RMIT University

Daniel Stoian, PhD Student, RMIT University

Nicky Eshtiaghi, Senior Lecturer, RMIT University

Jie Wu, Principal scientist, CSIRO

Enhancing solid-liquid mass transfer and impeller power efficiency in a mechanically agitated vessel employing dual impellers

09:25 - 09:50

Thomas Wood, EngD Student, University of Birmingham

Mark Simmons, Professor, University of Birmingham

Richard Greenwood, Dr, University of Birmingham

Hugh Stitt, Professor, Johnson Matthey

Slurryability: What makes a powder difficult to incorporate into a slurry?

09:50 - 10:15

Ken Primrose, CEO, Industrial Tomography Systems plc

Kent Wei, Research manager, ITS

Changhua Qiu, Principal engineer,

Tom Machin, Doctoral student, University of Birmingham

New developments in the application of electrical tomography to in-line and batch mixing

Multiphase mixing

Chair

David Dickey  

Co-chair

Inci Ayranc

10:30 - 10:55

Arun Ramachandran, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Sachin Goel, Graduate student, University of Toronto

The effect of a yield stress on the drainage of the thin film between two colliding Newtonian drops

10:55 - 11:20

Katsuhide Takenaka, Manager, Sumitomo Heavy Industries Process Equipment Co., Ltd

Hiro Horiguchi, Sr Engineer, Sumitomo Heavy Industries Process Equipment Co., Ltd.

Shoji Morinaga, Sr Engineer, Sumitomo Heavy Industries Process Equipment Co., Ltd.

Koji Takahashi, Professor, Yamagata University

Tomoyo Satoh, Student/Ms, Yamagata University

Mass transfer in solid-liquid system with high concentration

11:20 - 11:45

Alehlí Holguín-Salas, PhD student, Instituto de Biotecnología-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Enrique Galindo, Instituto de Biotecnología-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Gabriel Corkidi, Dr, Instituto de Biotecnología-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Three-phase dispersion in a pilot proto-fermenter containing mycelial biomass: characterization of the local bubble size distribution as a function of the gassed power drawn

11:45 - 12:10

Arthur Etchells, Rowan University

Robert Hesketh, Professor, Rowan University

A correlation for cloud height in solid-liquid mixing

12:10 - 12:35

Louis Fradette, Professor, Polytechnique Montreal

Emir Tsabet, Polytechnique Montreal

A semi-empirical approach for predicting the scale-up effect on the mean size of solid-stabilized emulsions

Simulations and mixing

Chair

Richard Grenville  

Co-chair

Harry Van Den Akker

18:45 - 19:20

Philippe A. Tanguy, Direktor/Corporate Vice President, Total Deutschland GmbH

Xiao Wang, Total S.A.

Polymer kneading technology: an industrial viewpoint (KEYNOTE)

19:20 - 19:45

Maxime Pigou, PhD Student, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés

Jérôme Morchain, Assistant Professor, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés

ADENON: a simulation tool to address mixing issues in bioreactors

19:45 - 20:10

Bruno Blais, PhD Student, Research Unit for Industrial Flows Processes (URPEI), Department of Chemical Engineering, École Polytechique de Montréal

Francois Bertrand, Professor, Montreal Polytechnique

O. Bertrand, Montreal Polytechnique

M. Lassaigne, Montreal Polytechnique

L. Fradette, Professor, Montreal Polytechnique

Understanding Solid-Liquid Mixing Through the Development of a Novel CFD-DEM Model

20:10 - 20:35

Jose Nunhez, Professor, State University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil

R. Jaimes, State University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil

J.L. Gomez, State University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil

N. Spogis State University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil

M.B. Machado, Chemical and Materials engineering department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

S.M. Kresta, Chemical and Materials engineering department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Investigating the influence of mesh density and some numerical aspects of CFD modeling in the prediction of the power number, flow number and heat transfer coefficients for the PBT impeller

Single phase mixing

Chair

Alvin Nienow  

Co-chair

Luis Sierra

20:50 - 21:15

Eric Janz, Research and New Product Development Director, Mixing Technologies, National Oilwell Varco

Robert Strong, Research Engineer, National Oilwell Varco

Kevin Myers, Professor, University of Dayton

The applicability of the use of open impellers at low Reynolds numbers

21:15 - 21:40

Konstantinos Steiros, Imperial College, London

Paul J K Bruce, Lecturer, Imperial College, London

Oliver R H Buxton, Lecturer, Imperial College, London

Christos Vassilicos, Professor, Imperial College, London

Theoretical modelling of the steady and transient power number in a stirred tank

21:40 - 22:05

Justin Walker, The Dow Chemical Company

Suraj Deshpande, The Dow Chemical Company

Kishore Kar, The Dow Chemical Company

Jim Pressler, The Dow Chemical Company

Wenyu Su, The Dow Chemical Company

The effect of viscosity and impeller geometry on stable vortex formation in a stirred tank

Adel Al Taweel, Professor, Dalhousie University

Albahlool Idhbeaa, Ph.D. Candidate, Dalhousie University

Amyl Ghanem, Assoc. Professor, Dalhousie University

Development of an Energy-Efficient High-Rate Bioreactor

Fouad Azizi, Dr, American University of Beirut

Khaled Abou Hweij,  

Liquid-Phase Mixing in Contactors Equipped with Screen-Type Static Mixers

Salur Basbug, PhD Student, Imperial College London

George Papadakis, Reader, Imperial College London

Christos Vassilicos, Professor, Imperial College London

DNS Investigation of Mixing in a Strirred Tank with Regular and Fractal Blades

Francesco Maluta, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta

Alexandra Komrakova, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta

Archie Eaglesham, Huntsman Polyurethanes

Don Jones, Huntsman Polyurethanes

Suzanne Kresta, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta

The optimization of mechanistic model parameters to predict undesired reactive precipitation of by-products

Fatemeh Safari, University of Alberta

Akshay Bhalerao, University of Alberta

Marcio Bezeera Machado, Research Associate, University of Alberta

Alexandra Komrakova, Professor, University of Alberta

Suzanne Kresta, Professor, University of Alberta

Effect of mixing energy on the transient drop size during liquid-liquid drawdown in  different tank geometries using in-situ FBRM

Colin Saraka, Master's Candidate, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta

Márcio Machado, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta

Samson Ng, Syncrude Canada Ltd.

Sujit Bhattacharya, Syncrude Canada Ltd.

Suzanne Kresta, Principal Investigator, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta

Uncovering Dynamics of Mesomixing in the Feed Plume for Froth Dewatering Using In-Situ FBRM and PVM

Adriana Gaona, PhD Student, University of Toronto

Evaluating the Mixing Performance of High-Solids Lignocellulosic Enzymatic

Petr Vlček, Ing., Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Tomáš Jirout, prof., Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Bohuš Kysela, Ing. ,Ph.D, Institute of Hydrodynamics, AS CR, v.v.i.

Large eddy simulation of homogenization process in a pitched blade impeller mixed vessel

Olivier Bertrand, Department of Chemical Engineering, École Polytechique de Montréal

Development of pressure based methods for the determination of the just-suspended speed and suspension state in viscous solid-liquid mixing