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W.K. Whiteford Professor and Vice Provost for Research


412-624-0784
Fax: 412-624-4618
Office: 826 Cathedral of Learning

Education

PhD (Chemical Engineering), Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1963

Professional Interests

International Conference on Particle Technology PARTEC2007

Professor Klinzing joined the faculty on the Oakland campus in 1966 after three years on a University Development project in Quito, Ecuador. He has also taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, in Valparaiso, Chile. He has been active in the continuing education program of A.I.Ch.E. in the area of pneumatic conveying. Courses in this field have been offered around the world in South Africa, Chile, Australia, Mexico, Japan and Germany.

Professor Klingzing's research is in the field of solids processing spanning the topics of coal cleaning, coal-water slurries, coal dewatering, combustion, pneumatic conveying of most industrial bulk solids. He holds four patents in this area and has copyrights on four computer packages involving calculations and artificial intelligence.

Some recent research topics are:

  • Dense Phase Conveying of Solids
  • Development of a Flow Economizer for Long Distance Conveying
  • Unstable Flow Behaviors in Pneumatic Conveying
  • Control of Pneumatic Conveying Operations Using AI and Fuzzy Logic
  • Transport of Coal in Bends and Pipelines

Selected publications

S.V. Dhodapkar, Lyn Bates, George Klinzing, Peter Wypych, “Guidelines for Solids Storage, Feeding and Conveying,” Chemical Engineering, January 2006, pp 26- 33

William H. Link, Gregory A. Jama, Jonathan O. Thorn, George E. Klinzing, “Exploring the Unstable Region in Pneumatic Conveying,” J. Chinese Inst. Of Chemical Engineers, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp 91-95 (2005)

Luis Sanchez, Nestor A, Vazquez, Shrikant Dhodapkar, George E. Klinzing, “Evaluation of models and correlations for pressure drop estimation in dense phase pneumatic conveying and an experimental analysis”, Powder Technology, Vol. 153, (2005) pp. 142-147

George E. Klinzing, Shrikant V. Dhodapkar, “Scale-up in particle processing,”, Powder Technology, Vol. 150, p 59

Luis Sanchez, Nestor Vasquez, George E. Klinzing, Shrikant Dhodapkar, “Characterization of bulk solids to assess dense phase pneumatic conveying,”  Powder Technology, Vol 138 , (2003)  pp. 93 – 117

Nestor Vasquez, Luis Sanchez, George E. Klinzing, Shrikant Dhodapkar, “Friction measurement in dense phase plug flow analysis, Powder Technology, Vol. 137 (2003) pp167-183

 

 

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