Award-winning engineers arrive in
Alberta, Canada this
week
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 24,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SPX FLOW engineers leading
the world's largest industrial mixing business are taking center
stage at this year's North American Mixing Forum (NAMF) and the
International Symposium on Mixing in Industrial Processes (ISMIP)
in Banff. NAMF is the first forum
of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
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SPX FLOW proudly boasts award-winning experts, Richard Cope, PhD and Richard Grenville, PhD as presenters at the
conference. Dr. Grenville, NAMF's President Emeritus, has developed
groundbreaking research in the areas of blending and solids
suspension, setting new standards in the field of industrial
mixing. Since, SPX FLOW colleagues have made advancements to his
research and are presenting their latest findings this week. Dr.
Cope is the NAMF acting treasurer and has served in three elected
positions over the course of his career. He will be presenting his
latest findings on heat transfer in mixed tanks. Both experts'
presence at the conference highlights SPX FLOW's commitment to
advancing the science and technology of fluid mixing far past daily
operations.
"SPX FLOW experts have served on the NAMF Council and Executive
Leadership Team since Jim Oldshue
helped found NAMF and establish the first mixing conference in
1967," said Dr. Cope, Senior Research Engineer, SPX FLOW Mixing
Solutions. "We intend to continue our tradition of mixing
leadership actively and intentionally."
Where to hear from the experts during the conference, all
times in Mountain Daylight Time:
- June 25th at
8:40 pm: "Reanalysis of Blend Time
Data: New Insights" – by Aaron
Strand, Cormac Ryan,
Tarang Bulchandani, Jason Giacomelli, Richard Grenville
- June 25th at
9:20 pm: "Modelling Impeller
Type Effects on Heating Times in a Jacketed Agitated Vessel" – by
Richard Cope, Kevin Logsdon, Richard
Kehn (RE Mason), Eric Janz
(M-Star CFD)
- June 25th at
5:00 pm and 10:00 pm: "Applying Meso-Mixing Principles to
Reactive Precipitations to Optimize Agitator Design and Feed
Location in Staged Reactors with High Recycle: a CFD Study" – by
Ben Boyer, Jason Giacomelli, Todd
Hutchinson, Richard
Grenville
- June 27th at
9:10 am: "On the Boundary between
Inertial and Viscous Subrange Turbulence Solids Suspension
Mechanisms: Reynolds or Archimedes number?" – by Jason Giacomelli, Richard Grenville, and Harry Van den Akker (University of
Limerick)
Aaron Strand, Senior Mixing
Technology Manager, SPX FLOW Mixing Solutions, also serves as one
of five chairs on NAMF's executive council. "We are incredibly
proud to be presenting more fluid mixing research at Mixing XXVIII
& ISMIP 11 than any other organization and demonstrating our
expertise as mixing solution makers," said Strand.
In addition to groundbreaking research, the NAMF conference also
offers the opportunity to give back. SPX FLOW's Philadelphia mixing brand is sponsoring the
Student Award this week, and for the second year in a row, its
Lightnin brand will sponsor the Award for Excellence at the AIChE
annual meeting in October.
To learn more about SPX FLOW's Mixing Solutions, visit:
https://www.spxflow.com/solutions/mixing-blending
About SPX FLOW, Inc.
Based in Charlotte, N.C., SPX
FLOW, Inc. improves the world through innovative and sustainable
solutions. The company's product offering is concentrated in
process technologies that perform mixing, blending, fluid handling,
separation, thermal heat transfer and other activities that are
integral to processes performed across a wide variety of nutrition,
health, and industrial markets. SPX FLOW has operations in more
than 25 countries and sales in more than 140 countries. To learn
more about SPX FLOW, please visit www.spxflow.com.
Media Contact:
Melissa Buscher, Chief
Communications and Marketing Officer
Melissa.Buscher@spxflow.com
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