AiChE Boston Presents “Fundamentals of Bulk Solids Handling” on Saturday, April 29
- Posted by ispeblog
- On April 5, 2017
If you work with powders or other bulk solids and are interested in learning how to design bulk solid handling systems, this workshop is for you! Systems for handling powders and other bulk solids are often improperly designed, leading to:
- Erratic flow, no flow or limited throughputs
- Poor product quality and excessive downtime
- Customer complaints
- Safety issues including dust generation and equipment failure
This workshop will cover typical flow problems, solids flow patterns, flow properties of bulk solids, hopper design fundamentals, caking and segregation.
Why should you attend? Since the fundamentals of bulk solids handling is seldom a part of formal engineering training, many lack an understanding of why solids handling problems occur and what practical steps can be taken to diagnose, alleviate, or prevent them. In this workshop, you will learn how and why typical flow problems occur and what simple, practical steps can be taken to solve them.
The workshop will be presented by Greg Mehos, Ph.D., P.E. Greg is a project engineer at Jenike & Johanson, an engineering firm that specializes in the storage and handling of bulk granular solids, and an adjunct professor at the University of Rhode Island. Greg has been involved in a wide range of bulk solids handling projects, including designs of hoppers, dryers, gasifiers, and moving bed reactors, as well as analyses of purge and conditioning columns.
Greg received his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado and a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado and Massachusetts and is a past chair of the Boston local AIChE section. Greg is the author of the subsection on bulk solids flow and hopper design in the forthcoming 9th edition of Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook, which will be published later this year.
For more information and to register for this workshop, visit: http://www.aiche-boston.org/events/eventdetail.php?eventId=152