Dr Rachel Smith
BEng (Hons), PhD
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 8255
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 7501
email : rachel.smith@sheffield.ac.uk
Chemical and Biological Engineering
The University of Sheffield
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Research interests
- Wet granulation design and scale-up
- DEM/CFD modelling of particulate processes
- Drug delivery methods
- Biological and water systems modelling
Biography
I completed my BEng in Chemical Engineering at the University of Queensland, Australia, in 2000, and my PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland in 2008. I joined the department of Chemical Engineering at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia as a post-doctoral research fellow in 2008. In February 2012 I joined the department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield as a lecturer.
I am interested in the study of particulate systems in industries including pharmaceuticals, foods, detergents, biological processing and water, using a combination of experimental and computational simulation tools.
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I am also a founding member of the Key Papers
Smith, R. M. and & Litster, J. D. (2012, July 1). Examining the failure modes of wet granular materials using dynamic diametrical compression. POWDER TECHNOLOGY, 224. doi:10.1016/j.powtec.2012.02.053
Smith, R. M., Liu, L. X., & Litster, J. D. (2010, November 1). Breakage of drop nucleated granules in a breakage only high shear mixer. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE, 65, 5651-5657. doi:10.1016/j.ces.2010.06.037
Liu, L. X., Smith, R., & Litster, J. D. (2009, January 31). Wet granule breakage in a breakage only high-hear mixer: Effect of formulation properties on breakage behaviour. POWDER TECHNOLOGY, 189, 158-164. doi:10.1016/j.powtec.2008.04.029
Smith, R., Hapgood, K. P., & Litster, J. D. (2003, February). Nucleation regime map for liquid bound granules. AICHE JOURNAL, 2(49), 350-361. doi: 10.1002/aic.690490207