Programme (click on the titles to watch the recording)
09:45 – Meeting Open
10:00 – Welcome – Introduction to Particle Dispersion in Liquid Formulations – Dr Simon Gibbon
10:10 – Industrial Practices & Challenges Posters – 3 minute recorded presentation with live Q&A – Dr Simon Gibbon
11:10 – Equipment Supplier Posters – 3minute recorded presentation with live Q&A – Dr Steve Ward-Smith
12:10 – Theme 1 – Particle dispersion – thermodynamics – Dr Simon Gibbon
12:10 – talk 1.1 – Particle Dispersion for Formulators – Prof Steven Abbot, Steven Abbott TCNF Ltd
12:55 – RSC FST AGM – Dr Helen Ryder, Chair of Formulation Science and Technology Interest Group
13:25 – Lunch Break
14:00 – Theme 2 – Particle dispersion – kinetics session – particles in hydrodynamics – Dr Claudio da Fonte
14:00 – talk 2.1 – An investigation of the performance of mixing systems for viscous solid-liquid mixing using CFD-DEM – Prof Bruno Blais, Polytechnique Montréal
14:30 – talk 2.2– Dispersion of Fine Powders in Liquids – Dr N. Gul Özcan-Taşkın, Loughborough University
15:00 – Theme 3 – Particle characterisation session – both current methods and new improved approaches – Dr Helen Ryder
15:00 – talk 3.1 Particle characterization in formulation, pharmaceutical particulate material quality control – Dr Richard J Tweedie, Particulate Sensors Ltd
15:20 – talk 3.2 Breaking from the laboratory – On line and at line characterisation of particles – DrStephen Ward-Smith, Malvern Panalytical
15:40 – talk 3.3 Combining Methods for Particle Size Dispersion Measurement in a Research and Development Environment – Dr Kerstin Jurkschat, OMCS, University of Oxford
16:00 – Break
16:10 – Integrated Examples – “beginning to end” – Dr Simon Gibbon
16:10 – talk 4.1 Material 1 – Sustainable mineral/ microfibrillated cellulose composite formulation additives: Properties and uses
Dr David Skuse, FiberLean Technologies Limited
16:40 – talk 4.2 Material 2 – From particles to an ice-repellent coating
Dr Emily Haas1, Christina Puijk1, Selina Ambrose1, Angelo La Rosa2, Geraldine Durand2, Anna Wojdyla-Cieslak3, Alan Taylor3
1 Promethean Particles, 2 London South Bank University (LSBU), 3 TWI
17:10 – Summary – tying it all together
Session Chairs – Richard / Steve / Claudio / Helen / Simon
Identified – unmet needs / big problems
Future – Industry 4.0 / prediction / sustainability / early career / next generation technologies
Cross industry – potential best practise transfer
Delegates comments / questions – orally and in the chat
17:30 Close
