Particle Technology

Basic and applied research in the field of:

• Solid/ gas, droplet/gas and solid/liquid separation
• Fugitive dust emission
• Bulk solids mechanics and powder handling processes
• Particle size measurement techniques

Research Focus:

• Solid/ gas, droplet/gas and solid/liquid separation
• Investigating the physical mechanism during the aging process of cleanable dust filter media, development a new “aging”- chamber
• Development of an image analysis method to characterise the porous structure of surface treated cleanable dust filter media
• Development of a standard test procedure to characterise different mist separators for metal working fluid emissions
• Investigation of the electrostatic enhancement of cleanable
• Dust filters (hybrid filter)
• Characterisation of melt blown dust depth filter media
• Solid /liquid separation (micro filtration, filter aid filtration)

Fugitive dust emissions

• Evaluation of road dust emissions
• Dust minimisation by water spraying
• Measuring techniques to detect fugitive dust emissions

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