Fluidization technology has a tremendous economic importance in process engineering and is used for a wide range of physical and chemical processes like particle formulation, classification, drying, adsorption, heating and cooling of solids, combustion, pyrolysis, carbonization, gasification, calcination or gas-solid reactions.
Credit: Hamburg University of Technology
Fluidization technology has a tremendous economic importance in process engineering and is used for a wide range of physical and chemical processes like particle formulation, classification, drying, adsorption, heating and cooling of solids, combustion, pyrolysis, carbonization, gasification, calcination or gas-solid reactions.
In this course, we focus on the drying as well as on the spray granulation, coating and agglomeration in fluidized beds. The particle formulation processes play an important role in the manufacturing of powder granules from liquid educts in the food, fine chemicals, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries as dust-free and free-flowing particles with improved particle properties, like a defined particle size distribution, porosity or desired mechanical strength, can be produced in a process with intensive heat and mass transfer conditions and good solids mixing.
This course highlights the fundamentals and applications of various types and different scales of fluidized bed processes for drying, coating, granulation and agglomeration of particles with practical hints and extensive calculation examples. The focus is on fluid mechanics, mixing, heat and mass transfer and particle formulation mechanisms. Furthermore, actual applications as well as modern computational tools and measuring techniques are presented.
The knowledge transfer is supported by different experts from industry, who will present procedures and approaches used in plant construction and optimization, in operation of processes for chemical, food and pharmaceutical industry as well as novel measuring techniques. The hands-on trainings, demonstrations and tutorials offered during practical sessions will strengthen the learning experience.
Target Audience
The course is designed for people from various backgrounds (engineers, chemists, food and pharmaceutical technologists) and with different levels of experience, who need to understand the fundamentals of applications of modern and efficient fluidized bed processes. The course language is English.
Course Program
- Introduction to fluid-mechanical principles
- Local fluid mechanics
- Methods for the characterization of fluidized beds
- Heat transfer in fluidized beds
- Mass transfer in fluidized beds
- Fundamentals of granulation and agglomeration
- Fluidized bed spray granulation
- Flowsheet simulation of complex solids processes
The organizers are
Prof. Dr.-ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Stefan Heinrich, Hamburg University of Technology
Prof. Dr.-ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Evangelos Tsotsas, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Date
Start: Monday, November 4th, 2024, 11:00 a.m.
End: Thursday, November 7th, 2024, 3:00 p.m.
Venue (for on-site participants)
Hamburg University of Technology
Institute of Solids Process Engineering and Particle Technology
Denickestraße 15
21073 Hamburg, Germany
Contact
Bettina Bartels
spe@tuhh.de
Phone: +49 40 42878-3750
More details about the course are available at www.tuhh.de/spe/fluidization-course.
