Graduating with a Doctorate later in Life
Alexander Russell, supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jürgen Tomas and Dr.-Ing. Peter Müller at the Mechanical Process Engineering, OvGU Magdeburg, had won the "Best Poster Award" for innovation in research on "Particle Systems and Bulk Solids Technology" at the 7th World Congress on Particle Technology (WCPT-7) 2014, Beijing on 22.05.2014.
The poster describes a model-based evaluation of experimental data to determine the coefficient of restitution for application in simulations of mechanical processes with granules where compressive forces dominate e.g. in a disc mill, pin mill, etc. The work in novel is a part of his doctoral research towards reducing undesired fine agglomerated product (size d > 100 μm) failure by deformation or breakage.
