CFD collaboration between GEA Niro and DTU

Building a better spray dryer

08-Aug-2011 - GEA Niro is working hand-in-hand with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), to simulate the fluid dynamics that take place within a full-sized spray dryer. This is done using a scaled down model with water instead of air. The process allows experiments to be performed at a laboratory level ...

Garcia-Perez awarded EFCE Excellence Award

11-Oct-2010 - Dr. Jose Vicente Garcia-Perez has been awarded the 2010 EFCE Excellence Award in Drying for his outstanding PhD thesis, Contribution to the knowledge on the use of power ultrasound in convective drying of foods. Jose Garcia-Perez from the Food Technology Department of the Polytechnic University ...

Fifty years of propionic acid manufacturing at BASF

02-Sep-2010 - A rather acidic success story started at BASF 50 years ago: in the summer of 1960, the company brought on stream the first large-scale manufacturing plant for propionic acid at its integrated Ludwigshafen Verbund site. The inauguration of another facility that produces this carboxylic acid ...

Scientists show there's nothing boring about watching paint dry

17-Aug-2010 - It turns out that watching paint dry might not be as boring as the old adage claims. A team led by Yale University researchers has come up with a new technique to study the mechanics of coatings as they dry and peel, and has discovered that the process is far from mundane. In the August 9-13 ...

KSB extends India foundry

10-Aug-2010 - KSB Group has expanded the steel foundry capacities at its Indian site of Vambori over the past months. Two new natural gas-fired furnaces contribute to increasing the steel castings output from 300 tons to 1200 tons per year. The foundry specialises in steels and stainless steels difficult to ...

Donut-shaped structures could lead to self-cleaning surfaces

19-Jul-2010 - A straightforward method for making films of doughnut-shaped (toroidal) structures could lead to improved smart materials, such as self-cleaning surfaces and scaffolds for biological sensors. Ordered patterns of the structures can by formed by simply dropping then evaporating solutions of chiral ...

Linde KCA receives licence to build fluidized-bed drying plants from RWE

21-Jun-2010 - RWE Power and Linde-KCA-Dresden GmbH, a subsidiary of The Linde Group, have signed a framework agreement on the use of technology developed by RWE Power for drying lignite. This turns Linde-KCA-Dresden into a provider and supplier of WTA developed by RWE Power. WTA is the German abbreviation for ...

Argonne scientists reveal secret of nanoparticle crystallization in real time

19-May-2010 - A collaboration between the Advanced Photon Source and Center for Nanoscale Materials at U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has "seen" the crystallization of nanoparticles in unprecedented detail. “Nanoscience is a hot issue right now, and people are trying to create ...

Bionic coating could help ships to economize on fuel

Materials based on water ferns could reduce fuel consumption massively

06-May-2010 - The hairs on the surface of water ferns could allow ships to have a 10 per cent decrease in fuel consumption. The plant has the rare ability to put on a gauzy skirt of air under water. Researchers at the University of Bonn, Rostock and Karlsruhe now show in the journal Advanced Materials (doi: ...

Song receives ACS's Henry H. Storch Award in Fuel Chemistry

29-Apr-2010 - Chunshan Song, Distinguished Professor of fuel science and director of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Energy Institute, Penn State, received the Henry H. Storch Award in Fuel Chemistry. The award in recognized Song's outstanding contributions to fuel science, especially in clean ...