Conference: 26th – 28th June 2013, University of Sheffield, UK

The 5th International Granulation Workshop 2011 was even more of a success than the previous years with a record attendance due to the growth of the workshop. Over 300 people from Industry and Academia attended the Workshop co-organised by Sheffield University and Nestlé.

Next year the University of Sheffield is proud to host the 6th International Granulation Workshop in Sheffield, UK. This will be the place to showcase the latest in agglomeration, granulation and particle technology. The granulation conference will provide an excellent opportunity to gain a complete overview of how the field of granulation stands at present with the presentation of a range of papers from both academia and industry.

Call for Abstracts

We would welcome your abstracts for oral presentations or posters at the conference in these following themes:

The Macro Scale I: Processing for Granulation

• Fluidized Bed Spray Granulation

• High Shear Granulation

• Extrusion-Spheronisation and Pelletization

• Roller Compaction and Tabletting

• Coating and Encapsulation

• Continuous Granulation (inc. feed rate and granule composition)

• Scale-Up

• Evaluating Product Performance

• Environmental Aspects/Energy Consumption

• Overall Process Concepts & Design

• Tools for Process Control

• Granulation: Variability and Error

The Macro Scale II: Applications

• Pharmaceutical Granulation and Tabletting

• Agglomeration in the Food Industry

• Detergent and Personal Care Products

• Nano-Granulation

• Green Granulation - Innovative Processes

• Agglomeration in Suspension-Flocculation

• Agglomeration in Metallurgical Industry

• Fertilizer Granulation

• Catalyst

• Agglomeration in other Processes

• Undesired Agglomeration

The Meso Scale: Mechanistic Description

• Wetting and Nucleation, and Growth and Consolidation

• Granulation Rate Processes

• Breakage in Granulation

• Characterisation of Material Properties and their Influence on Granulation

• Binder Properties

• Transport Phenomena during Granulation

• Stress Distributions and Flow Profiles in Granulation Processes

The Micro Scale: Granules and Smaller

• Structure-Property (Granule Structure, Product Performance)

• Product Structure vs Application Properties

• Droplet; wetting, spreading and rebound phenomena

• Interparticle Forces

• Hierarchically Structured Granules

• New Granule Characterisation Methods

Towards a Generalised Model of Agglomeration

• High Viscosity and Low Viscosity Binders

• High Shear and Low Shear Granulators

• How do Design the Optimal Agglomerator

• How to Control Properties (Shape, Density, Strength and Size)

To submit an abstract please visit our website:http://www.shef.ac.uk/agglom/2013/abstracts

Please note the following important information:

Abstracts should be submitted no later than 19th October 2012.

You will be informed during November 2012 which type of presentation (oral/poster) your abstract has been selected for.

Please note that if your abstract is accepted for an oral presentation, you must also submit a paper which will be included in the conference proceedings.

Although it is not a requirement to submit an accompanying paper for a poster presentation, we strongly encourage authors to do so, and the paper will be included in the conference proceedings.

The final paper is required by 28th January 2013.

After the conference, a selection of papers from the proceedings will be considered for publication in a special issue of an international journal.

The workshop website will be updated on regular basis　http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/agglom/2013

Further Information

For further information please contact Dr Kate Pitt:　Granulationworkshop2013@sheffield.ac.uk

We look forward to welcoming you to Sheffield in 2013.

Prof. Agba Salman

Prof. Mike Hounslow

Prof. Stefan Palzer