Industrial Doctorate Centre: Formulation Engineering

工业博士中心：配方工程

• 批准号: EP/G036713/1
• 负责人: Peter Fryer
• 金额: $ 699.28万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Training Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FG036713%2F1
• 关键词: Industrial; Doctorate; Centre; Formulation; Engineering

This application requests funds to continue and develop the EngD in Formulation Engineering which has been supported by EPSRC since 2001. The EngD was developed in response to the needs of the modern process industries. Classical process engineering is concerned with processing materials, such as petrochemicals, which can be described in thermodynamic terms. However, modern process engineering is increasingly concerned with production of materials whose structure (micro- to nano- scale) and chemistry is complex and a function of the processing it has received. For optimal performance the process must be designed concurrently with the product, as to extract commercial value requires reliable and rapid scale-up. Examples include: foods, pharmaceuticals, paints, catalysts and fuel cell electrodes, structured ceramics, thin films, cosmetics, detergents and agrochemicals. In all of these, material formulation and microstructure controls the physical and chemical properties that are essential to its function. The Centre exploits the fact that the science within these industry sectors is common and built around designing processes to generate microstructure:(i) To optimise molecular delivery: for example, there is commonality between food, personal care and pharmaceuticals; in all of these sectors molecular delivery of actives is critical (in foods, to the stomach and GI tract, to the skin in personal care, throughout the body for the pharmaceutical industry);(ii) To control structure in-process: for example, fuel cell elements and catalysts require a structure which allows efficient passage of critical molecules over wide ranges of temperature and pressure; identical issues are faced in the manufacture of structured ceramics for investment casting;(iii) Using processes with appropriate scale and defined scale-up rules: the need is to create processes which can efficiently manufacture these products with minimal waste and changeover losses.The research issues that affect widely different industry sectors are thus the same: the need is to understand the processing that results in optimal nano- to microstructure and thus optimal effect. Products are either structured solids, soft solids or structured liquids, with properties that are highly process-dependent. To make these products efficiently requires combined understanding of their chemistry, processing and materials science. Research in this area has direct industrial benefits because of the sensitivity of the products to their processes of manufacture, and is of significant value to the UK as demonstrated by our current industry base, which includes a significant number of FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) companies in which product innovation is especially rapid and consumer focused. The need for, and the added value of, the EngD Centre is thus to bring together different industries and industry sectors to form a coherent underpinning research programme in Formulation Engineering. We have letters of support from 19 companies including (i) large companies who have already shown their support through multiple REs (including Unilever, P+G, Rolls Royce, Imerys, Johnson Matthey, Cadbury and Boots), (ii) companies new to the Centre who have been attracted by our research skills and industry base (including Bayer, Akzo Nobel, BASF, Fonterra (NZ), Bristol Myers Squibb and Pepsico).

该申请要求资金继续并开发EPSRC自2001年以来一直支持的配方工程领域的工程。经典工程工程与加工材料（例如石化物质）有关，可以用热力学术语描述。但是，现代工艺工程越来越关注其结构（微观至纳米规模）和化学的材料的产生，并且收到的处理的函数。为了获得最佳性能，该过程必须与产品同时设计，以提取商业价值需要可靠且快速扩展。示例包括：食品，药品，油漆，催化剂和燃料电池电极，结构化陶瓷，薄膜，化妆品，清洁剂和农产品。在所有这些中，材料配方和微观结构控制着对其功能至关重要的物理和化学特性。该中心利用了这样一个事实，即这些行业中的科学很普遍，并且围绕着设计过程以生成微观结构：（i）优化分子交付：例如，食品，个人护理和药品之间存在共同点；在所有这些部门中，活性物质的分子递送至关重要（在食物，胃和胃肠道中，对个人护理中的皮肤，整个身体的皮肤）；（ii）控制结构内部的结构：例如，燃料电池元素和催化剂需要一种允许在温度和压力范围内有效地通过危险分子的结构。在制造结构化陶瓷进行投资铸造时面临相同的问题；（iii）使用适当规模和定义的规模规则的过程：需要创建可以有效地用最小的浪费和转换损失来有效地制造这些产品的过程。因此，影响广泛不同的行业的研究问题是相同的：因此，需要对流程的效应，从而在功能中效应，从而在自动nano中施加了效应。产品是结构化固体，软固体或结构化液体，其特性高度依赖。为了使这些产品有效地需要将其化学，加工和材料科学的结合理解。该领域的研究具有直接的工业利益，因为产品对其制造过程的敏感性，并且对英国具有重要价值，如我们当前的行业基础所证明的那样，其中包括大量的FMCG（快速移动的消费品）公司，其中产品创新特别快速且以消费者为重点。因此，ENGD中心的需求和附加值是将不同的行业和行业汇集在一起​​，以形成配方工程领域的连贯的基础研究计划。我们收到了19家公司的支持信，包括（i）大型公司，这些公司已经通过多个RES（包括联合利华，P+G，Rolls Royce，Imerys，Johnson Matthey，Cadbury and Boots），（ii）刚被我们的研究技能和行业基础吸引的公司（包括Bayer，Aker，Aker Nobel，Basef，basib，peps serbib and s squro）（包括我们的研究技能和行业）。