Dr. Arthur W. Etchells, III retired from the DuPont Company, where for thirty of his forty years there, he consulted internally in the fields of mixing and slurry flow for the entire company, reaching the highest technical level. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Delaware where he teaches a course in mixing. He has published a number of papers on industrial scale problems, motionless mixers, mixing of non-Newtonian fluids and mixing in wastewater treatment. He is a past President of the North American Mixing Forum (NAMF). He now works as an independent consultant.
Examples will be presented involving mixing and scale-up of crystallization, fermentation, food processing, chemical and polymer reactions. Sessions will be supplemented by videos and discussion of problems presented by participants and by question and answers.
The course faculty has extensive experience both having consulted, taught, undertaken research and written extensively for many years while remaining at the forefront of developments. Both will be present throughout, giving participants the opportunity to hear different views on a particular topic and participants are strongly encouraged to discuss their own interests, experiences and problems during the course. These discussions are very popular.