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The Macro Scale I: Processing for Granulation Processes

  • Fluidised Bed Granulation
  • High Shear Granulation
  • Twin Screw Granulation
  • Roller Compaction
  • Spray Drying
  • Extrusion-Spheronisation and Pelletisation
  • Tableting
  • Coating and Encapsulation

The Macro Scale II: Applications

  • Agglomeration in the Food Industry
  • Sensory Perception and Mouthfeel of Food Particles
  • Pharmaceutical Granulation
  • Fertiliser Granulation
  • Detergent and Personal Care Products
  • Agglomeration in the Metallurgical Industry
  • Agglomeration in Suspension-Flocculation
  • Nanoparticle-Granulation
  • Agglomeration in Catalysts
  • Bio-granulation-Aerobic granulation
  • Undesired Agglomeration and Powder Caking
  • Green Granulation - Innovative Processes

The Meso Scale: Mechanistic Description

  • Wetting and Nucleation, and Growth and Consolidation
  • Granulation Rate Processes
  • Breakage in Granulation
  • Transport Phenomena during Granulation

The Micro Scale: Granules and Smaller

  • Structure-Property (Granule Structure, Product Performance)
  • Droplet; wetting, spreading and rebound phenomena
  • Interparticle Forces – Particle Adhesion – Sintering – Liquid bridge
  • New Granule Characterisation Methods
  • Hierarchically Structured Granules

Science & Technology of Reconstitution

  • Fundamentals of Reconstitution: Wetting, Capillarity, Dispersion, Dissolution
  • Innovative Analytical Methods to measure Reconstitution
  • Mathematical Modelling of Reconstitution Processes
  • Powder Processing Technologies to enhance Reconstitution
  • Effect of Powder Structure on Reconstitution and related Functional Properties

Systems Engineering of Granulation Processes

  • Control of Granulation Processes
  • Control and Optimisation of Flowsheets
  • Dynamic Flowsheet Modelling

General Topics

  • Continuous Granulation (including Feeding, Blending and Granule Composition)
  • Process Control in Continuous and Batch Systems
  • Tools for Process Control and PAT
  • Scale-Up
  • Powder Mixing
  • Toxicity of Nanoparticles
  • Evaluating Product Performance
  • Environmental Aspects / Energy Consumption
  • Granulation: Variability and Error
  • On-line measurement
  • Affordability/Economics of Granulation
  • Industrial Challenges in Manufacturing
  • Feed Forward Control based on Powder Characterisation
  • Fast Start up and Shut downs
  • Quality Monitoring

International Granulation Workshops

The Granulation Conference showcases the latest in agglomeration, granulation and particle technology.

We welcome your abstracts for oral or poster presentations, or any enquiries that you may have.