InterPore UK Meetings – 2nd InterPore UK Meeting

2^nd UK InterPore Annual Meeting 

Second annual meeting of the UK chapter of InterPore took place on the 5-6th of September 2016 at Loughborough University.

This meeting featured an excellent program comprising high-quality paper and poster presentations and invited speakers from diverse disciplines who study porous media and their characterisation at different physical scales.

The meeting covered general themes related to the field of Porous Media ranging from theory to experiment and from fundamental to applied research.

Chair:
Das, Diganta (Loughborough University, UK)

Scientific and Organising Committee Members

• Chew, John (University Of Bath, UK)
• Deka, Lipika (De Montfort University, UK)
• Discacciati, Marco (Loughborough University, UK)
• Holdich, Richard (Loughborough University, UK)
• Icardi, Matteo (University of Warwick, UK)
• Joekar-Niasar, Vahid (University of Manchester, UK)
• Khudaida, Kamal (Loughborough University, UK)
• Moncorgé, Arthur (Total, Aberdeen, UK) • Pak, Tannaz (University of Teesside, UK)
• Rabiu, Kazeem (Loughborough University, UK)
• Rahmanian, Nejat (University of Bradford, UK)
• Rezania, Mohammad (University of Nottingham, UK)
• Reid, Brian (University of East Anglia, UK) • Shokri, Nima (University of Manchester, UK)

The following posters received a poster prize (one 1st prize and two 2nd prizes) in the conference (full details of the posters can be found in the conference proceedings):

1st Prize: Poster title: “Fuel from briquettes from faeces: Comparing the performance of novel faecal biochar binder briquettes against charcoal briquettes”. Presented by Matthew Palmer, Mark Leaper, Diganta Das, Emily Woods, Catherine Berner, Andrew Foote

2nd Prize: Poster title: “Salt Precipitation in Heterogeneous Porous Media Influenced by Salt Concentration”, presented by Mina Bergstad and Nima Shokri

2nd Prize: Poster title: “The impact of corner interfacial area on the uniqueness of capillary pressure-saturation-interfacial area relation under transient conditions”, presented by Omar E. Godinez-Brizuela, Nikolaos K. Karadimitriou, Vahid Joekar-Niasar

Attendees of the Loughborough Annual Meeting.

more information can be found in http://homepages.lboro.ac.uk/~cgdbd/Interpore_UK_Chapter_Loughborough.htm