Fluidised beds have a long history in the process industry and a wide range of applications. Each year we run a CPD course to bring experts together with industry to cover this process from the basic science all the way through to how this basic understanding can be applied in industrial examples across a wide range of process sectors.
Since we have been unable to run the course in the last year due to Covid, we are planning a series of live one hour taster sessions on various topics within the range of areas of fluid bed processing. These will be aimed at introducing various, important aspects of fluid bed processing rather than making attendees experts, but will also give a flavour as to what we will cover in our next, face to face course in early 2022.
Each expert speaker will present for around 5 minutes and there will be opportunity to ask questions and provide answers in the second half of each session. This set of sessions follows on from our successful expert sessions on spray drying.
Session 4 on Wednesday 14 July will cover fluid bed design. There are many different ways of controlling the movement of the powders through a fluid bed by how it is designed and operated, from batch to continuous, with or without vibrations as well as how the fluidising air is feed into the bed. This can then provide a range of possible conditions and hence behaviour.
