Program

Thursday, March 25, 1999

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8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast/Registration
8:30 a.m. Dr. S. Fenster, President, NJIT Opening Remarks
8:40 a.m. Dr. R. Dave, NJIT Overview of research, development, and education activities
9:20 - 10:10 a.m. A Sampling of Research Projects 
9:20 a.m. Dr. R. Pfeffer (NJIT)  Dry Particle Coating Using a Rotating Fluidized Bed
9:32 a.m. Dr. B. Khusid (NJIT) Electro-field Induced Aggregation in Suspensions 
9:44 a.m. Dr. F. Muzzio (Rutgers) Mechanisms of Mixing in Tumbling Blenders
9:56 a.m. Dr. N. Meegoda (NJIT) Particle Separation Using Ultrasound
10:10 - 10:30 am. Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:45 a.m. Research Projects (cont'd)
10:30 a.m. Dr. R. Dave (NJIT) Study of Powder Flow Enhancements through Vibrations and Magnetically Assisted Agitation
10:42 a.m. Dr. T. Shinbrot (Rutgers) Mixing of Weakly Cohesive Fine Grains
10:54 a.m. Dr. G. Tardos (CUNY) Computer Simulation of Agglomerate Growth and Breakup during Granulation
11:06 a.m. Dr. C. Zhu (NJIT) Particulate Pollutant Control: Filtration
11:18 a.m. Dr. A. Cuitino (Rutgers) The Role of Cohesion on the Initial Packing during Die Filling
11:30 a.m. Dr. P. Singh (NJIT) Direct Numerical Simulation of Multiphase Flows
11:45 - 1:45 p.m. Poster Session/ Vendor Exhibits
Noon- 1:00 p.m. Lunch 
1:45 - 5:00 p.m.  Invited Presentations
1:45 p.m. Dr. M. Roco (NSF)  Nanoparticles and their Applications
2:10 p.m. Dr. P. Mort (Proctor & Gamble) Scale-up of Agglomeration Processes using Transformations
2:35 p.m. Dr. D. Kalyon (Stevens Institute of Tech.) Rheology and Extrusion of Highly Filled Pastes and Suspensions
3:00 p.m. Dr. P. Meenan (E. I. DuPont de Nemours)  Engineering Crystals for Improved Performance
3:25 - 3:45 p.m. Break
3:45 p.m. Dr. P. Debenedetti (Princeton University) Particle Formation with Supercritical Fluids
4:10 p.m. Dr. H. Ahmed (Hoffmann-LaRoche) Pharmaceutical Powder Mixing from Randomization to Homogenization
4: 35 p.m. Dr. N. Shah (Hoffmann-LaRoche) Segregation and Agglomeration of Pharmaceutical Powders: Impact on Drug Dissolution and Content Uniformity

Friday, March 26, 1999:
Closed Meetings for IFPRI and PTC/PPRC Advisory Board Members
 
8:30 - 12:30 p.m. International Fine Particle Research Institute (IFPRI) Technical Committee Meeting

Presentations: Drs. Louge and Tanaka

12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. PTC/PPRC Board Meeting