Wolfson particle project short-listed for top engineering award
Engineers from the University of Greenwich at Medway’s Wolfson Centre, based at Chatham Maritime, have been short-listed for a prestigious award.
Their work on techniques to preserve particle quality in manufacturing processes, has seen them short-listed in the Innovation and Catalysis and Colloid Science category of the Institution of Chemical Engineers’ 2006 Awards.
Teams from the universities of Greenwich and Surrey have been working on a major project which looks at the quality in particulate-based manufacturing, such as the production of sugar or soap powder. The project has had a variety of diagnostic and predictive successes such as avoiding caking in large-scale sugar exports worldwide and preventing the ingredients of pharmaceutical powders and nutritional drinks from segregating.
The centre will be competing against multi-million pound international pharmaceutical companies to win the award and the results will be announced at a gala dinner to be held on Thursday, October 5, at the Banqueting House in Whitehall, London
Director of the Wolfson Centre Professor Alan Reed, says: “The university is delighted to be short-listed for this prestigious award. It is an acknowledgement that our engineers at the Wolfson Centre, along with colleagues at the University of Surrey, have the expertise and capability to solve major problems experienced by industry and thereby making a contribution to the success of UK businesses.”
The Wolfson Centre provides research, consultancy and educational services to industry in technologies associated with the storage, handling and physical processing of powders and granular solid material.
The centre relocated to the university’s Medway campus last year, and was funded by the university, government sources and the Wolfson Foundation.