Preface--颗粒学报PARTICUOLOGY

a Institute of Particle Science & Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
b Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China

10.1016/j.cpart.2007.11.002

Volume 6, Issue 1, February 2008, Page 1

Available online 7 March 2008.

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This special issue of PARTICUOLOGY is devoted to the first UK-China Particle Technology Forum taking place in Leeds, UK, on 1–3 April 2007. The forum was initiated by a number of UK and Chinese leading academics and organised by the University of Leeds in collaboration with Chinese Society of Particuology, Particle Technology Subject Group (PTSG) of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), Particle Characterisation Interest Group (PCIG) of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and International Fine Particle Research Institute (IFPRI). The forum was supported financially by the Engineering and Physics Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of United Kingdom, a number of industrial companies including Procter & Gamble, Malvern Instruments, and the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI).

The UK-China Particle Technology Forum was proposed to take place every 2 years in rotation between UK and China. The aims of the Forum are to enhance communications between scientists and engineers from both academic institutions and industrial companies of the two countries, to establish a platform to foster new and substantial collaborations, and to identify and address common challenges in the area of particle technology. The first forum attracted around 100 participants who contributed over 70 presentations in four thematic areas of Manufacturing and Processing of Particles, Measurements and Characterisation of Particles, Modelling and Simulation of Particle Systems and Manipulation of Particles and Particle Systems. Invitations were sent to the forum participants to contribute to the special issues of PARTICUOLOGY and Powder Technology. To foster better exchange in the future, the UK participants were encouraged to contribute to PARTICUOLOGY, whereas the Chinese participants to contribute to Powder Technology. The seven papers contained in this issue of PARTICUOLOGY were contributed by the UK participants and were peer-reviewed. They cover controlled micro-feeding of fine particles, novel on-line image analysis of crystallization, labeling of tracer particles for non-invasive positron emission particle tracking, surface coating of conductive composite materials, analysis of fluidized bed stability, sedimentation behaviour of microparticles and relative importance of frictional and collision contributions of granular flows. It is hoped that publication of these papers will be of interest to the particle technology community.

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