Spray training customised to your needs.
We have run 1 on 1 sessions, small group, and large group classroom sessions; both as on-site in person, and remote training; at multinationals, small businesses, and university groups.
The content is customised to what you need: typically including some aspects of spray science basics, terminology, physics; mechanics of atomisers relevant to your application; sprayed fluid physical properties, normally including some introduction to one of our specialties, coupling formulation, rheology and atomiser characteristics, formulating for sprayability, and/or low overspray. Often including some aspects of experimental rheometry, especially extensional rheology, and experimental spray characterisation; droplet sizing and imaging. For applications where the spray impacts on a surface, aspects of the statistics of droplet size, patternation, transfer efficiency and coverage; as well as rheology of spreading, levelling, slumping, film formation and drying/curing. For spray drying applications, considering droplet size and the interactions of drying kinetics, residence time and airflow patterns in a dryer; often including some discussion of the "Acoustic Atomiser" that I developed whilst at ICI (and now out of patent), for what is can teach us about spray dried product particle morphology control.
Expect the style of delivery to be influenced somewhat by your choice of the venue and size of the group. With a 1 on 1 or small group session at your site with access to your laboratories, we can adjust the content on-the-fly, and do hands-on demonstrations, and training on your characterisation instruments. A large group session, especially online, is likely to have a more pre-determined content, and more of a classroom style. Online, I can run some demonstrations from my lab; in a hotel or company conference room demonstrations typically have to be dry, or at most with water and consumer products.
Typically we are asked for technical training primarily for R&D staff, but normally with a spread of interests and backgrounds; so some of the participants may be senior managers or sales and marketing professionals, who want only to top-and-tail a high-level overview introduction and conclusion session; and we have structured training to be useful to hands-on laboratory technical staff, and well as experienced researchers seeking understanding of the complex physics and chemistry in spray science.
Phil teaches each year on the "Spray Drying and Atomisation of Formulations" CPD course at the The University of Leeds, where he is a Visiting Professor. This year it is 4-6 June 2024. Book your place now to avoid disappointment: the course is normally filled to capacity.
A popular aspect of that course is the lab demonstrations. It wasn't possible to do in-person lab demos for the 2021 course, so I made some video shorts.