'In Focus' CEB Seminar with Dr Chris Boyce: Characterizing and Structuring Multiphase Granular Flows

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• Columbia University
• Wednesday 17 March 2021, 14:30-15:30
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In our parallel seminar series that takes a more in-depth look at a specific topic, we hear from Dr Chris Boyce, from Columbia University, who presents his group’s work on the development and implementation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to rapidly image the 3D dynamics of gas, liquid and granular particles in these multiphase systems.

This talk is open to anyone. Please register below.

Dr Boyce’s talk will be followed by a Q&A and discussion with a virtual networking session.

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Bio:

Chris Boyce received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and Physics at MIT and then studied at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, where he received the Dankwerts-Pergamon prize for the best PhD thesis in Chemical Engineering. After his PhD, he held postdoctoral research positions at Princeton University and ETH Zurich. He started as an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia in January 2018. His research focuses on the physics of multiphase granular flows. His honors and awards include being named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in Science and winning the Sabic Young Professional Award from the AIChE for outstanding contributions to particle technology.

Abstract:

Multiphase granular flows are ubiquitous in nature and encountered in process units throughout the chemicals, energy and pharmaceuticals industries. Granular flows exhibit a rich set of behaviors traversing regimes of solids, liquids, and gases. Despite the importance, the physics of these flows is still poorly understood, leading to difficulties in predicting geological flows and significant problems in scale-up and optimization of process units as compared processes involving only gases and liquids. Key challenges to understanding and optimizing granular systems include: (1) experimental characterization of flow within 3D opaque systems and (2) creating controllable, predictable and optimized behavior in heterogeneous, mathematically chaotic flows. Here, we present the development and implementation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to rapidly image the 3D dynamics of gas, liquid and granular particles in these multiphase systems. We identify key mechanisms in these flows and also anomalous flow phenomena. Further, we demonstrate how the combination of gas flow and vibration can create liquid-like flow instabilities in granular particles, introducing the ability to create controllable, structured flows. We also develop and use computational models to identify the physical mechanisms underlying anomalous and structured flows.

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