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KINGSLY AMBROSE
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Purdue University
225 S University St., West Lafayette, IN 47907
Tel: +1 765 494 6599
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Prof. Kingsly Ambrose is Associate Professor at Purdue University since 2018. He obtained his B.S. in Agricultural Engineering and M.S. in Agricultural Processing from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India, and his Ph.D. from Purdue University. Dr. Ambrose was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Grain Science and Industry at Kansas State University before joining the faculty at Purdue. There he worked on milling and grain processing. He was a research scientist in the Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering & Technology, Punjab, India, from 2001-2007, and he was a post-doctoral research associate at Purdue in 2011. His research areas are: particle technology, powder flow, particle characterization, milling and grain processing, particle/powder modeling and simulation, bulk materials handling, and grain dust explosions. He has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed papers in international journals. In 2014, he received the Andersons Cereals and Oilseeds Early-in-Career Award of Excellence.
TIMOTHY A. BELL
DuPont Engineering Research and Technology
(DuET), Bldg. 304/A207
200 Powder Mill Road
Wilmington, Delaware 19803, USA
Tel: +1 302 695 8503
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Web: www.dupont.com
Tim Bell received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from West Virginia University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer.
Tim is an Engineering Fellow in DuPont Engineering Technology (DuET). He leads DuPont’s competency in solids handling, and provides consulting and laboratory testing to DuPont’s business units, central R&D, and key customers. This work may take the form of new process design, troubleshooting, or particle product development.
Tim spent 9 years in DuPont plant operations and project engineering groups before joining DuPont’s engineering consulting organization in 1985. He has numerous patents for particulate products and process technology and more than 50 conference, magazine, and journal publications. He is the past chair of ASTM committee D-18.24, governing the testing of bulk solids for handling purposes.
JOHN W. CARSON
Jenike & Johanson
400 Business Park Drive
Tyngsboro, Massachusetts 01879, USA
Tel: +1 978 649 3300
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Web: www.jenike.com
Dr. John Carson is president of Jenike & Johanson, Inc., a world-renowned engineering consulting firm specializing in the storage, flow and processing of powder and bulk solids. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1970 joined Jenike & Johanson where he has been active in research, consulting, and management of the company. An author of more than 100 articles on various topics dealing with solids flow, including bin and feeder design, flow of fine powders, design of purge vessels, and structural failures of silos, he also lectures extensively on these and related topics. Besides being a founding member of AIChE's Powder Technology Forum, Dr. Carson belongs to ASME, ASCE, and ASTM International, where he is chair of committee D18.24, "Characterization and Handling of Powders and Bulk Solids." The UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers conferred on him the honor of their ‘Solids Handling Award’ in recognition of his "Outstanding professional excellence in the technology". This award is a measure of the unique international standing of his company, as both the original founders of Jenike & Johanson are amongst the comparatively few previous recipients of this prestigious award.
DAVID A. CRAIG
Jenike & Johanson
Massachusetts, USA
Tel: +1 978 649 3300
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Web: www.jenike.com
Dr. David A. Craig received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Bulk Solids Flow, both from the University of Newcastle, Australia. David joined Jenike & Johanson in 1997. He has divided his time between consulting on industrial projects and working on in-house research projects, with a special focus on the influence of bulk solids flow on silo structural design. He has published several technical papers, participated in various international conferences, and presented numerous short courses in the field of storage and flow of bulk solids. He is a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Structures for Bulk Solids Committee.
TIM FREEMAN
Freeman Technology Ltd.
1 Miller Court, Severn Drive
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, GL20 8DN, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1684 851 551
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Mr. Tim Freeman is Managing Director of powder characterisation company Freeman Technology for whom he has worked since the late 1990s. He was instrumental in the design and continuing development of the FT4 Powder Rheometer® and the Uniaxial Powder Tester. Through his work with various professional bodies, and involvement in industry initiatives, Tim is an established contributor to wider developments in powder processing. Tim has a degree in Mechatronics from the University of Sussex in the UK. He is a mentor on a number of project groups for the Engineering Research Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems in the US and a frequent contributor to industry conferences in the area of powder characterisation and processing. A past Chair of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Process Analytical Technology Focus Group Tim is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Pharmaceutical Technology and features on the Industry Expert Panel in European Pharmaceutical Review magazine. Tim is also a committee member of the Particle Technology Special Interest Group at the Institute of Chemical Engineers, Vice-Chair of the D18.24 sub-committee on the Characterisation and Handling of Powders and Bulk Solids at ASTM and a member of the United States Pharmacopeial (USP) General Chapters Physical Analysis Expert Committee (GC-PA EC).
DUSAN ILIC
School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
Centre for Bulk Solids and Particulate Technologies (CBSPT)
Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources (NIER),
The University of Newcastle (UON), University Drive, Callaghan NSW 2308, Australia
Tel.: +61 240339010; Mobile : (+61)414317130
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Website: www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/dusan-ilic
Dr. Dusan Ilic is a chartered engineer and Senior Research Associate at the University of Newcastle. He is highly experienced in applying engineering mechanics and Discrete Element Modelling (DEM) to troubleshoot, optimise and design bulk solid materials handling systems, having 15 years of consultancy and R&D practice including over a decade with TUNRA Bulk Solids. His skill set encompasses characterisation and sample preparation, design of process and plant, handling, transportation and storage facilities. He lectures in these subjects internationally in industry professional development and postgraduate/masters courses in collaboration with the Conveyor Manufacturers Association and the Engineering Council of South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and University of Sao Paulo (USP) in Brazil. He has supervised 14 internship and 5 PhD students. Within his current role, he is leading and collaborating on strategic, multi-disciplinary projects spanning biomass and waste to resource, optimisation and design, dust and particulates. During his career, Dr Ilic has collaborated with more than 100 different industry, academia and government partners in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Oceania, Africa and the Americas on over 200 projects handling 50 different types of commodities and has compiled more than 300 technical reports.
MARK JONES
Centre for Advanced Particle Processing and Transport
Callaghan Campus, University of Newcastle
University Drive
Callaghan NSW 2308, Australia
Tel. +61 2 4033 9035
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Prof. Mark Jones is Director of the Centre for Bulk Solids & Particulate Technologies (Newcastle Node) and TUNRA Bulk Solids and is also the Head of the School of Engineering at the University of Newcastle. He has been an active researcher and international consultant in the field of bulk solids handling for over 20 years. His principal contributions are in the areas of pneumatic conveying and characterisation, however he has contributed a significant amount of work in a wide range of areas within bulk materials handling.
MASSIH PASHA
Particle Technology Consultant
Engineering Technology
The Chemours Company
Experimental Station (E262/421)
P O Box 2167, Wilmington DE 19899
Tel: +1 302 353 5477 (office)
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Dr. Massih Pasha is a Particle Technology Consultant at The Chemours Company, providing technical consultation to the industrial and research facilities of Chemours and its key customers in the area of particle science and technology. He received a PhD degree from the University of Leeds (UK) in 2013, working on ‘Numerical Modeling of Cohesive Powder Flow’. Following the completion of his doctorate degree, Massih commenced work at the Procter & Gamble Company through a secondment scheme working on ‘Detergent Powder Segregation’. He joined DuPont’s Engineering Technology (DuET) organization in 2014 as a Solids Handling Consultant before joining Chemours in 2015.
Massih has more than 20 archival and conference publications. Massih is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds and currently acts as Vice Chairman of the Board of International Fine Particle Research Institute (IFPRI). He is an instructor at the University of Delaware delivering lectures as part of the Master of Engineering in Particle Technology (MEPT) program.
YUTAKA TSUJI
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Osaka University,
5-11-14, Toyosato, Higashi-Yogogawa, Osaka, 533-0013 Japan
Tel: +81 6 63294522
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Prof. Yutaka Tsuji is Emeritus Professor at Osaka University. His research interests are: discrete particle simulations of fluid-particle two-phase flow and optical measurement of fluid-particle two-phase flow. He has transfer knowledge and technology on pneumatic conveying and gas-solid two-phase flow to industry. From 1989 to 2007 he was full professor at Osaka University teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in fluid mechanics, multi-phase flow, and from 2007 to 2012 he was Managing Director of Hosokawa Powder Technology Foundation. From 2017 to present he is Deputy Director of Japan-China Language Academy. His intense research activity has been recognized many times by different scientific institutions. In 1991 he was awarded with the JSME Medal from the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers, in 1999 he received the Thomas Baron Award from AIChE, and in 2012 he was awarded by the Japanese Society of Multiphase Flows Fluidization, among others. He is author of more than 100 papers in refereed international journals and books in his research field.
KENNETH WILLIAMS
University of Newcastle
Newcastle institute for Energy and Resources
Centre for Bulk Solids and Particulate Technologies
University Drive, Callaghan, 2308, Australia
Tel.: +61 (0) 403 956 522
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Website: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/
A/Prof. Kenneth Williams is motivated in the translation of research and innovation to industry through implementation of advanced systems technology and training of associated personnel. A/Prof Williams has been driving, facilitating and encouraging these endeavours with his team for over the past decade. In this time, he has built a research team and research area from small beginnings from the dynamics of aerated flows within pneumatic conveying systems and translated and broadened his research into dynamic moisture migration retention, handleability of wet and sticky material and recently improving materials handling challenges associated with biomass feedstock. To initially achieve this expansion, he has grown the number of Higher Research Degree students that study in the materials handling group from 2 students in 2004 to an average of 15 students over the past 5 years. As part of this leadership, A/Prof Williams facilitates student collaborations, industry site visits and annual presentations.
More recently, A/Prof Williams has established a broader postdoctoral capability with the employment of 5 Research Associates over the past 4 years, who are actively involved in all facets of the research and management requirements of the materials handling group. He has also established productive cross disciplinary links with researchers from the geotechnical group, chemical engineering work in technical marketing of coal and iron ore and self-heating assessment, environmental interfaces with the Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER) and the International Centre for Balanced Land Use and also importantly advanced control technology for bulk material handling systems with the University’s mechatronics group. A/Prof Williams also leads the international collaborative endeavours with Germany, China, Brazil, Turkey and the USA, in materials handling. This collaboration, combined with his external university and research institute collaboration shows the expanded vision that A/Prof Williams has have for international research and innovation collaboration.
PETER WYPYCH
University of Wollongong
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences
Wollongong N.S.W. 2522, Australia
Tel: +61 2 4221 3491
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Prof. Peter Wypych is the Director of the ARC-endorsed Key Centre for Bulk Solids & Particulate Technologies at the University of Wollongong. He has been involved with the research and development of solids handling and processing technology since 1981. Areas of expertise include pneumatic conveying, bulk materials handling, dust-fume hazards, control and dust explosions. Peter Wypych has published over 300 articles in these areas. He is the Chair of the Australian Society for Bulk Solids Handling.
Peter Wypych is also the General Manager of Bulk Materials Engineering Australia and has completed over 500 industrial projects, involving R & D, feasibility studies, troubleshooting, general/concept design, optimisation, debottlenecking and/or rationalisation of plants and processes for companies all around Australia and the world.
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