02/28/2024
By Zhiyong Gu

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Date: Thursday, Feb. 29
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Greg Mehos
Title: Powder Handling
Location: Shah Hall 301

Abstract:

Compared to fluids, engineers’ training and education in bulk solids handling is lacking. Perhaps that is why it is often easy to identify which lines or equipment in a facility handle powders — they are the ones with all the hammer marks. This seminar will explain how fundamental properties of a bulk material, i.e., cohesive strength, internal friction, compressibility, wall friction, and permeability, are measured and how to use fundamental engineering principles to predict powder flow behavior and design reliable powder handling equipment.

Biography:

Greg Mehos, Ph.D., P.E. is the director of Greg Mehos & Associates LLC and is a chemical engineering consultant who specializes in bulk solids handling, storage, and processing and an adjunct professor at the University of Rhode Island. Greg enjoys teaching professionals and students bulk solids engineering fundamentals so that they can solve powder-handling problems and design equipment for reliable handling of solids. He has authored dozens of technical papers on the subject and contributed to the Solids Processing and Particle Technology section of the ninth edition of Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado and his master’s from the University of Delaware. Greg is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a past chair of the Boston local section. He is a licensed professional engineer in Massachusetts.