Overview

This annual event aims to bring together UK based research students to present their findings in the field of fluid mixing processes to their peers and professionals from industry and academia.

Agenda

9:30- 9:50 - Arrival, coffee, posters- S building foyer

9:50- 10:00 - Welcome and introduction S Building Room S2.031

Oral Presentations

Nanoemulsification of a plant based oil through process intensification

Diksha Vats Department of Chemical Engineering Loughborough University and IIT Roorkee

A Novel, low cost, safe flow visualisation technique for stirred tanks

George Truc University of Birmingham and Johnson Matthey

Novel method for Reynolds number estimation and fluid regime characterization in a 2L rocked bag bioreactor

Laia Miranda Garrido, UCL and AZ

A novel Lagrangian approach for calculating mixing times in stirred tanks

William Pearce Department of Chemical Engineering University of Birmingham and IFP Energie Nouvelle

Impact of mixing on the evolution of particle size distribution of cooling crystallization processes

Kimiya Ramezani Department of Chemical Engineering University of Manchester

Power and mixing time analysis of dual-shaft, turbine-anchor stirred tanks for Newtonian fluids in the transitional regime

Darius Khoshdel Department of Chemical Engineering University of Birmingham and Unilever

The need for novel impeller designs: preliminary power measurements

Cristina Aleu Heredia UCL and Cytiva

Investigating the effect of agitator geometry and fluid rheology on the performance of sawtooth impellers using experimental and computational techniques

Shreyasi Deshpande Department of Chemical Engineering University of Birmingham, Design Manufacturing & Engineering Management University of Strathclyde and Unilever Wirral

Lunch around poster presentations - S building foyer (Jury discussions)

Short oral presentations on posters (5 min each)

14:30- 14:45 - Announcement and close of event with refreshments

Poster Presentations

Dispersion protocols for an antimicrobial coating additive

Aydan Hatherley Department of Chemical Engineering Loughborough University

Blending performance of batch rotor-stators

Aled O. Williams Department of Chemical Engineering University of Birmingham and Loughborough University

Low-energy formulation of stable nanoemulsions from selected essential oils

Mateusz Guz Department of Chemical Engineering Loughborough University and Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences

Microencapsulation of phase change materials for thermal storage and nanoparticle-embedded bifunctional capsules

Nibina Nizar Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Materials Engineering, Loughborough University

Continuous removal of products from fermentation broths using hot microbubble gas stripping

Ashraf H. Nyako Department of Chemical Engineering Loughborough University

Numerical study of the effects of geometry on solid dispersion performance in continuous oscillatory baffled crystallizers

Wei Huang Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology

Prize

Prizes include contribution towards the costs of attending the European Congress of Chemical Engineering which will be held in September this year. 

Price

• Students: £25.00
• IChemE members: £45.00
• Non-IChemE members: £60.00