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Institute of Particle Science and Engineering

Professor KJ Roberts

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email:k.j.roberts@leeds.ac.uk
tel:+44 (0)113 3432408
fax:+44 (0)113 3432405
room:Engineering Building 215
personal web address:http://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk
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Position

Brotherton Professor of Chemical Engineering

Responsibilities

School Director of Research

Research activities

Research Institute Membership

Research students

Professor Roberts is currently supervising the following research student(s):

STUDENT THESIS TITLE
Syarifah Abd Rahim Understanding and predicting the physico-chemical properties and crystallisation behaviour of carbomazepine co-crystals
Fatmawati Adam An examination into the influence and change of solution structure on the polymorphic behaviour of 2,6-dihydroxybenzoic acid
Linda Hardy The Risk Assessment of the Preparation of Parenteral Products in the North of England
Qassim Hussain An examination of fatty acids methyl ester crystallisation in relation to improving the cold-flow behaviour of pure and formulated biodiesels
Hai-yang Jiang An examination of the molecular-scale effect of tailor-made additives on the nucleationol growth
Zhipeng Lan Structural study of sector zoning impurity habit modification of sodium chlorate
David Merrifield Relating the characteristics of pharmaceutical powders to their prior processing
Thai Nguyen Understanding effects of crystallisation environmental conditions on growth rate of crystal faces using experimental and modelling techniques
Fei Sheng Ultrasonic attenuation spectroscopy for in situ particle sizing and crystallization process control
Thomas Turner
Xiaofeng Zhu Influence of impurities on the monitoring and control of batch cooling crystallisation processes with ATR-FTIR spectroscopy

Selected publications

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Wang, XZ; Calderon De Anda, JA; Roberts, KJ; Li, R; Thomson, GB; White, G Advances in On-line Monitoring and Control of the Morphological and Polymorphic Forms of Organic Crystals Grown from Solution. KONA Powder and Particle, pp.69-85. Accepted.
Abd Rahim, S; Hammond, RB; Roberts, KJ Crystallization of Co-Crystals via Crystal Addition to Saturated Ethanolic Solutions of the Co-Crystal Formers in: 17th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization. Accepted.
Li, RF; Thomson, GB; White, G; Calderon De Anda, JA; Wang, XZ; Roberts, KJ Integration of Crystal Morphology Modelling and On-Line Shape Measurement. AIChE Journal, vol. 52, pp.2297-2305. Accepted.DOI
Adam, FB; Hammond, RB; Pencheva, K; Roberts, KJ Molecular Dynamics Study of Solvent Mediated Polymorphism: 2,6-Dihydroxybenzoic Acid from Toluene and Chloroform Solution in: 17th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization. Accepted.
Hammond, RB; Ramachandran, V; Roberts, KJ; Halfpenny, PJ Molecular Modelling to Investigate the Effect of L-Alanine on the Crystal Growth of alpha-Glycine in: 17th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization. Accepted.
Merrifield, DR; Ramachandran, V; Roberts, KJ; Armour, W; Axford, D; Basham, M; Connolley, T; Evans, G; McAuley, KE; Owen, RL; Sandy, J A novel technique combining high-resolution synchrotron x-ray microtomography and x-ray diffraction for characterization of micro particulates. Measurement Science and Technology, vol. 22, 2011.DOI

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