Sam Rogers’ Page

Tel: +61-3-99059786

E-mail: sam.rogers

eng.monash.edu.au
Office: Room 117, Building 37

Education History:
2003-2006 BE(Hons) (Biochemical Engineering),
Waikato University, New Zealand
2007-Present PhD Student (Chemical Engineering),
Monash University, Australia

Academic Achievements:
2003: Golden Key Honour Society Membership
2005: Invitation to BE Honours Programme
2006: ACENZ Award for Best Practical Work Report
2007: IPENZ Regional Design Award

Research Project:

Title: ‘Developing and utilizing a mini-food powder production facility to produce industrially relevant particles for functionality testing.’

The ultimate goal is to build a lab scale spray drier that can run simulations and provide useful data for the dairy industry. In the early stages of the project this entails investigation into atomization techniques, rheological characteristics of fluids to be dried, and both theoretical and empirical droplet size predictions.

Recently, I have been recording dynamic drying kinetics for thin layers of milk concentrate. These will serve as a point of reference for the theoretical drying curves that will be used in the design of the spray drying operation for the proposed lab scale drier.