Gabriel Tardos

Professor
Chemical Engineering
City University of New York
United States of America

Biography

ACADEMIC POSITIONS 1987-present Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, The City College of New York 1987-1990 Chairman, Department of Chemical Engineering ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE 1985-1986 Sabbatical: General Electric Company, Corporate Research and Development Center, Information Systems Laboratory, Schenectady, NY 12301 1992-1993 Sabbatical: Unilever Research Inc., Corporate Research Center Process Technology Department, Edgewater, NJ 07010 1996-1999; 2001, 2002 Visiting Engineer (summer month), Procter&Gamble and Co., Este Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, Oh. 2001-2002; 2003-2004 Sabbatical and Visiting Engineer: Merck and Co. Inc., Physical Chemical Manufacturing Laboratory (PCML), Merck Manufacturing Division, West Point, Pa, 19486.

Research Intrest

Powder processing in the pharmaceutical industry Binder granulation of fine powders Moisture ingress into powders and the study of caking Study of slow, frictional powder flows Detecting sticking, sintering and caking properties of powders

List of Publications
Tardos G.I. and P.J. Mort, “Fluidization: Applications for Coating and Granulation”, Chapter 17 in “Handbook of Fluidization and Fluid-particle Systems”, W.C. Yang, (Ed.), Marcel Dekker, New York, Basel, pp. 445-468.
Tardos G.I. and P.J. Mort, “Dry Powder Flows”, Chapter 9 in “Multiphase Flow Handbook”, C. Crowe, (Ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida
Tardos, G.I., L. Farber, D. Bika and J. N. Michaels, “Morphology and Strength development in solid and solidifying inter-particle bridges in granules of pharmaceutical powders”, Chapter in “Granulation and coating of fine particles”, A. Salman, M. Hunslow and J.K.S. Seville, editors, Elsevier,