Rheology in Chemical Processing and Chemical Product Design

Sponsored by

The WCCE8 Symposium on “Rheology in Chemical Processing and Chemical Product Design” in Montreal 2009 offers a remarkable opportunity to focus on a comprehensive participation and learning experience over the importance of Rheology in industrial processing and design of a wide range of complex chemical products.

Confirmed keynotes

Prof. Pierre J. Carreau
Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, Canada

Prof. Gerald G. Fuller
Stanford University, USA

Prof. Paula Moldenaers
University of Leuven, Belgium

Prof. Erich Windhab
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Scope

This topical symposium is dedicated to the importance of Rheology in the rational design and analysis of manufacturing processes and formulation of chemical products. Special importance will be given to contributions that are focused on the relationship between molecular architecture and rheology, structure development during processing and its influence on product properties, as well as rheology as a tool to optimize processing. Two student awards, for best oral and poster presentations, will be sponsored by the Canadian Society of Rheology.

In this sense, this symposium will present recent rheological advances in relation to processing and formulation of complex materials such as plastics, biomaterials, rubbers, lubricants, paints, foodstuffs, adhesives, composites, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, etc.

The proposed topics are :

  • Polymer melts and solutions
  • Biomaterials, Pharmaceuticals and cosmetics
  • Rheometry in combination with other physical techniques
  • Nanocomposites, composites and solids
  • Computational rheology and Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
  • Foods and Colloids (foams, emulsions and suspensions)
  • Interfacial rheology and microfluidics
  • Microstructural modelling
  • Surfactants and detergents

Advisory Committee

Dr. Edmundo Brito. Fresenius Kabi Deutschland, Germany
Prof. Lionel Choplin. INPL-Nancy, France
Prof. Bruno de Cindio. University of Calabria, Italy
Prof. John Dealy, McGill University, Canada
Prof. Savvas Hatzikiriakos, University of British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Nafaa Mekhilef, Arkema, USA
Prof. Jan Mewis. University of Leuven, Belgium
Dr. Kalman Migler, NIST, USA
Prof. Robert K. Prud’homme, University of Princeton, USA
Dr. Mats Stading. Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (Gothenburg), Sweden
Prof. John Vlachopoulos, McMaster University, Canada

Publication

This symposium will be included in the WCCE8 proceedings.

Organizers

Prof. Crispulo Gallegos
Departamento de Ingenieria Quimica
Universidad de Huelva
Campus de «El Carmen»
21071 Huelva, Spain
Fax: +34 959 21 99 83
Ph.: +34 959 21 99 87
cgallego@uhu.es

Dr. Abdellah Ajji
Industrial Materials Institute
National Reserach Council Canada
75 Boul. De Mortagne
Boucherville, QC
J4B 6Y4 Canada
Tel. 1-450-641-5244
Fax. 1-450-641-5105
Abdellah.ajji@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca