Powder Show Preview 2008

April 2, 2008
The ChemProcess portion of the Process Technology for Industry International Show (PTXi) will be held from Monday through Wednesday, May 5-8, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, 5555 N. River Road, Rosemont, Ill.

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About the Show
Show Dates and Times
Registration and Travel Links
Exhibitors
Enhance Your ChemProcess Knowledge

About the Show


The ChemProcess portion of the Process Technology for Industry International Show (PTXi) will be held from Monday through Wednesday, May 5-8, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center,
5555 N. River Road, Rosemont, Ill.

ChemProcess is specifically designed for process engineers, chemical engineers, production engineers, plant and operations managers who are using raw materials, process, pretreat, convert, separate and purify, producing a range of finished products including: Adhesives & Sealants, Beverages, Fertilizers & Agrichemicals, Food, Inorganic Chemicals, Organic Chemicals, Paints & Related Products, Plastics & Resins, Soaps & Detergents, and more.

Those who attend will find solutions in automation, engineering materials, environmental services, instrumentation and control, liquid gas and air, plant and process design/engineering, handling equipment, plant maintenance and safety, process equipment, solids handling and more.

The PXTi convention floor also will include International Powder & Bulk Solids, Process Pack and PharmaProcess. Together, these four synergistic shows create the most comprehensive North American exhibition and conference dedicated to the U.S. and International Process industries.

For a breakdown of each section of the show click here.

PTXi will provide:

  • A full range of processing technologies, products, equipment, systems and services conveniently located in dedicated events focused on powder and bulk solids processing, chemical processing, pharmaceutical processing, and packaging solutions for the processing industries.
  • All major industry sectors will be represented: Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Food, Beverage, Cosmetics, Plastics, Fabricated Primary Metals, Cement, Paints and Pigments, Grain, Mining, Pulp and Paper, Stone, Clay and Glass, Rubber, Petroleum, Household Products, Tobacco, and others. 
  • Leading education delivered by industry experts. The 2008 Process Technology Expo International Conference will bring you face-to-face with experts from across the processing industries. Access their knowledge to enhance your process and increase your efficiencies and quality.

Show Dates and Times

The Expo will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday.

The Conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Wednesday; 9 a.m. to noon on Thursday.

Registration hours are 8 a.m., Monday through Wednesday; 9 a.m. on Thursday.


Registration and Travel links

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Exhibitors

For a complete alphabetical list of exhibitors click here.

Enhance Your ChemProcess Knowledge

The 2008 Process Technology Expo International Conference will provide 22 leading educational sessions structured with extensive input from process industry experts to provide practical high-value information attendees can immediately apply to their job responsibilities.
Following are a few highlights of the conference:

  • Ensuring Reliable Bulk Solids Flow will be presented by Eric Maynard, senior consultant, Jenike & Johanson. Handling or processing powders and bulk solids is fraught with problems, whether you are dealing with chemicals, plastics, pharmaceuticals, foods, metals, or a myriad of other materials. This tutorial will provide solid insights into common flow problems that arise when powders and bulk solids are put into silos, bins, and hoppers. Ways to characterize a material's flow properties will be presented along with proven, practical, and cost effective design solutions. Retrofits to existing equipment as well as design of new facilities will be discussed.
  • Maximize Blending Performance While Minimizing Powder Segregation also will be lead by Maynard. Maintaining a uniform blend of dry bulk solids is a problem faced daily by engineers and operators in industries as varied as chemicals, pharmaceuticals, foods, plastics, and battery production. Even if a "good" blend is achieved, often the major problem is how to maintain that blend through downstream powder handling in equipment. The inability of maintain a blend (i.e. segregation) at the point where it is needed, is always costly in terms of rejected material, extra blending time, and defective end products.
  • Segregation & Blending Selection or Design will be presented by Kerry Johnson, COO, Material Flow Solutions, Inc. Blending of powder material is an important unit operation used in many industries.
    This workshop will introduce the basics of blend theory as it applies to powders and will look at blender selection based on key flow properties. Segregation in blenders will also be a focus of this discussion. Segregation occurs due to a variety of mechanisms. The fines may sift through a coarse matrix resulting in size separation of particles. The fines may also be carried by air currents and deposit in process vessels where entrainment velocities decrease below some minimum value. These and other mechanisms cause different segregation patterns in process equipment.
  • Nano Powders features instructors Giuseppe Bonifazi, Full Professor, Dept. ICMA - La Sapienza Università di Roma; Dr. Satoshi Akiyama, Manager , Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Nisshin Seifun Group Inc.,Technical Research Center;Carl Ishito, General Manager, AAAmachine, Inc.; Jeffrey Abelson, Technical Services Manager, Donaldson Torit Brand Dust Collectors & Filters. Nanotechnology, and more specifically nanoparticles technology, represents one of the most challenging research area of these last years mainly for the wide range of “innovative” applications that can be related to the production and use of particulates, aggregates and structures characterized by dimensions below 1m. Nanometer-sized particles currently attract, in fact, considerable attention because they often present properties which differ from those of the corresponding bulk materials (i.e. nano-particulate fillers of various type and shape utilized in polymers to produce composite materials improve properties while reducing costs) and when utilized to realize nano-structures (i.e. nano-rods, nano-tubes) leads to a variety of properties, in the final manufactured goods, so that to be used in many new and innovative devices (i.e structures, materials, sensing probes, intelligent detectors, etc.).

For a complete schedule of the educational conferences click here.

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