Coating Process Fundamentals Short Course

June 3-5, 2008
June 2, 2008 - Primer Course
B75 Amundson Hall
East Bank Minneapolis Campus
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

New this year: June 2, 2008 - Primer Course Session

This course provides coating engineers and their colleagues with an understanding of the principles of the many processes by which liquid coatings are applied and solidified. The course is designed for engineers who are engaged in coating and who seek a deeper understanding of processes and processing problems. It is also relevant to physical scientists concerned with the formulation of coating liquids for processability and microstructure development.

New Features This Year

An optional fluid mechanics tutorial will be given during the late afternoon of June 2. The tutorial will be helpful for those who have not studied this field or would like a refresher. There will be a poster session in conjunction with a social hour on June 3. Posters will highlight recent research in the Coating Process Fundamentals Program of IPRIME.

Short Course Topics Will Include:

Elements of coating function and form
Basic phenomena of viscous flow, capillarity, and wetting; multi-layer flow
Simple coating flows: knife, bar, dip, air-knife
Die flow and die design basics
Slot, extrusion and die coating; use of vacuum and tensioned web
Slide and curtain coating basics
Simultaneous multi-layer coating
Rheology of coating liquids
Overview of computer modeling
Roll systems; gravure, rotary screen coating
Flow instability and failure; flow defect mechanisms
Basic phenomena of surfactancy
Overview of coating process visualization
Blade and membrane coating basics
Elements of phase behavior, mass and heat transfer in drying
Drying, curing, annealing coated films
Stress development and other defect mechanisms
Coating with drying: spin, dip
Coatability

Faculty

Lorraine F. Francis, Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, leads the Coating Process Fundamentals Program, and researches drying and microstructure of coatings.
Program alumnus Marcio S. Carvalho, formerly with 3M and Imation, is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at PUC in Rio de Janeiro, and expert in the area of coating flows.
Satish Kumar, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, researches coating flows and interfacial phenomena in coating and printing processes.
Shuzo Fuchigami, formerly with Fuji Film, 3M, and Mitsubishi Chemical, is a Fellow with the University of Minnesota’s Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial and Materials Engineering.
Wieslaw J. Suszynski heads the program’s main laboratory.
Alumnus Mikhail L. Pekurovsky is with 3M.
Alon V. McCormick, Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, directs the program’s curing research and consults in the area.
H. Ted Davis, Regents Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, is expert in surfactancy and porous materials.

Visit the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Coating Process Fundamentals Program (CPFP) website.