Mark Jones, PhD, Head of Engineering, Director, Centre for Bulk Solids & Particulate Technologies, University of Newcastle

Professor Mark Jones is Head of the School of Engineering, Director of the Key Centre for Bulk Solids and Particulate Technologies and Director of TUNRA Bulk Solids at the University of Newcastle.  After qualifying as a Chartered Mechanical Engineer in the UK he worked as a Research and Development Engineer for Lucas CAV Ltd in London.  He was awarded a PhD from the University of Greenwich, London while working with the UK Department of Industry on a Design Guide for Pneumatic Conveying followed by 11 years as a Senior Consulting Engineer at the Centre for Industrial Bulk Solids Handling, Glasgow.  His research interests span the broad area of Bulk Materials Handling and he specialises in pipeline transport.  He has worked with many multi-national companies in the US, Europe, South America, India, China, Russia and South Africa.  He has been a Member of Council of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), London and Chairman of the UK National Bulk Material Handling Committee. He is currently Honorary Secretary of the Australian Society for Bulk Solids Handling and a member of the Board of the Cooperative Research Centre for Integrated Engineering Asset Management. His current research interests include severe wear mechanisms in pneumatic pipelines, modelling of transient effects in pneumatic conveyor design and fluidization and air retention characteristics of particulate solids.

David Mills, PhD, Pneumatic Conveying Consultant

David Mills has gained more than 30 years experience in Pneumatic Conveying, through consultancy, research and teaching. He undertook a PhD programme on Pneumatic Conveying in 1973 and has been working in this area ever since, first at the University of Greenwich in London, then as Professor of Bulk Solids Handling at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. Since 1997 he has been operating as an independent consultant. He is the author of the ‘Pneumatic Conveying Design Guide’ (2nd Edition) and co-author of the ‘Handbook of Pneumatic Conveying Engineering’. He has written over 200 articles for technical journals and conferences, and has presented short courses and undertaken consultancy on a worldwide basis. He has been associated with the ‘Powder Show’ since its inception in 1976.