Granular Materials and Sustainable Industrial Processes
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 2710
Special Issue Editor
Interests: powder technology; photonics for stress measurements and mechanics of materials; multi-scale modelling and simulations; particulate mechanics; modelling the spread of COVID-19
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Dear Colleagues,
Granular materials exhibit a spectacular variety of unusual and unpredictable characteristics under different industrial process environments - they behave differently from conventional solid, liquid, and gaseous matter. They are of high relevance in different engineering applications including from chemical, civil, mechanical, food, energy, materials, and space engineering sectors.
The processing behaviours of individual grains and their assemblies are extremely complex to understand at a fundamental level. Worldwide, scientists and engineers research for bridging the gaps in our understanding between the roles of single-grain scale properties, through different intermediate scales to the bulk processing characteristics of granular materials. Furthermore, there is an urgent need to understand the impacts of global demands in developing sustainable and efficient manufacturing processes, for example, in responding to global warming and unforeseen emergencies such as COVID-19 at present. These challenges require to develop better understandings on the way granular materials are utilised and processed in different industries as addressed in this timely special issue. This issue welcomes manuscripts from a variety of academic, industrial and government bodies on the related area of research including the following indicative topics (though the list is not exclusive):
(1) Mechanics and physics of granular processes at different scales, for example, molecular, nano, micro, and macroscopic properties
(2) Advanced experimental characterisations of granular materials and processes
(3) Modelling granular processes at individual and (/or) multi-scales
(4) Green engineering of granular processes, for example, leading to energy savings and net-zero emissions
(5) Responding to emergencies in granular processes, for example, accounting for COVID-19 in granular industries
(6) Developments of industrial policies and practices related to granular materials
(7) Any combination of the above topics for developing next-generation granular processes and products
Dr. S. Joseph Antony
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- granular materials
- granular mechanics
- granular physics
- powders
- grains
- powder processing
- particulate mechanics
- sustainable processes
- green industries
- mechanics of materials
- powder technology
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