Start
Feb 27, 2009 - 14:30
End
Feb 27, 2009 - 15:30
Venue
Room #118 Chemical Engineering
Event Type
Speaker
Professor Malcolm Mackley Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology University of Cambridge
Title
The processing and application of novel plastic microcapillary films
Abstract: This seminar will review recent work that has been carried out within the Polymer fluids Group developing a flexible plastic film that contains a multitude of microcapillaries. We call the material Microcapillary Film (MCF). The seminar will give the background to this unusual voided geometry and will discuss how the polymer melt extrusion process operates and how we are able to control capillary diameter in the range 0.5mm to 5 microns and how we control voidage in the range 10-70%. MCFs have a number of process applications and the use of MCFs as a microreactor and also thermal solar collector will be discussed. The geometry of the MCF could also make it an excellent candidate for membrane filtration if the matrix material had membrane characteristics.AttachmentSize Mumbai-ITT-seminar.pdf172.67 KB