Dr Graham Rideal of Whitehouse Scientific will give a paper on particle-size calibration at the next meeting of the Particle Characterisation Interest Group of The Royal Society of Chemistry
The meeting will be held on 17 June 2010 in Castle Donington, UK.
'This conference is particularly relevant at the moment,' said Dr Rideal, 'as there has been some rather unscientific speculation and comment in the media about the size of particles in dust clouds and the potential damage that can be caused to aircraft engines.' While the main focus of the one-day meeting is particle characterisation by image analysis, Prof Richard Holdich of Loughborough University will, in his plenary lecture, discuss the particle size of the dust cloud and touch on the methods used to measure it.
As part of his own presentation, Dr Rideal will be looking at particulates and aircraft from a slightly different point of view, introducing a new test method for calibrating fuel lines.
As part of the programme, industry experts will describe the latest techniques for particle-size analysis, from millimetre to nanometer sizes.
There will be a poster session and displays from providers of image-analysis systems.
