Biography:
born 1937 St.Ag.Berchem (BRL), BE.
*chemical engineer KUL-Leuven,BE and Purdue Univ.,USA;Dr.Appl.Sc., industrial management.
*1963-89:development of nuclear and non-nuclear process technology at SCK; 89-91:director Seghersengineering;
91-93 research strategy at VITO for environment, energy and materials; from 1994 at PEGO consultant e.g. powder technology.
$founding member of EFChE Working Party on Mechanics of Particulate Solids and of KVIV chapter on chemical engineering.
Know-how and experience:
processes in fluidized beds;
transport of particulate solids;
gaseous, liquid and solid waste treatment;
energy systems incl.renewble energy;
ex ante and ex post evaluation of international R&D projects
Fields of Consulting work:
(gas and liquid) fluidisation;
transport of solids;
R&D evaluation ex ante and ex post.
Publications:
*The Archimedes number for preliminary prediction of flow behaviour of particulate solids (Relpowflo III,1999);
Classification of fluidized particles by Archimedes number (Powder Technol. 1998).
Über Walter Goossens
