First European school for additive manufacturing applied to chemical industries

The goal of this summer school is that you get an introduction to what Additive Manufacturing can do for the chemical industries and some hands-on experience on the design, the printing process and to get a flavour of what has already started in different fields. The registration of this first summer school will be free of charge. Attendees will have to cover food expenses, accommodation and trips to Prague.

Photo: SINTEF / Werner Juvik

Free registration

When: 30-31/08/2018
Location: Location: ICPF CAS, v .v. i, Prague, Czech Republic. http://www.icpf.cas.cz/en/contacts.

Additive manufacturing (AM) is an advanced method of manufacturing novel and complex shapes. The flexibility in design can allow flexible design of unitary processes to unlock the true potential of chemical industries.

Ultimately, the adoption of any novel technology is pushed by the engineers who are designing novel and more efficient processes. The main limitation in the application of AM to chemical industries lies in the fact that the knowledge of such technologies is not part of most programmes of chemists or engineers.

The goal of this summer school is that you get an introduction to what AM can do for the chemical industries and some hands-on experience on the design, the printing process and to get a flavour of what has already started in different fields. We expect Master Students and PhD students related to chemistry and chemical, biological and environmental engineering.

Accommodation:
Dormitory cell with 2 rooms each with two separated beds,
Available from 29th August to 1st September 2018
https://www.kam.czu.cz/en/r-10440-accommodation/r-10459-dormitory-jih
Price 180 – 335 CZK / night / person. If room is occupied by only one person – additional fee 230 CZK/ night / person. Please write in your registration, that you want a reservation.
Lunches: Lunches served at campus canteen, up to 130 CZK/lunch.

Program outline

Adenda 30/8

08:30 – 09:00 Registration and gathering together
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome speech
09:15 – 10:00 Fundamentals of 3D printing. Technology overview with real samples. (Petr Bláha, 3DARENA, Prague, Czech Republic)
10:00 – 11:00 3D printing by Prusa Research: present and the future, Jakub Doležal, Prusa Research, Prague, Czech Republic
11:00 – 12:00 The basic printing process, Jakub Doležal, Prusa Research, Prague, Czech Republic
12:00 – 13:00 LUNCH
13:00 – 14:30 The first step in 3D printing. Build your CAD & render. Do your first printout. (FDM, SLA printers, Prusa Research, ICPF)
14:30 – 15:30 What 3D printing can deliver to chemical industries?
15:30 – 16:00 Break / coffee
16:00 – 17:00 Application of 3D printing for the chemical industries.
(Laboratory tour at ICPF with relevant demonstration examples of 3D printing utilization)

Adenda 31/8

09:00 – 09:30 Pickup and Check your printouts. Discussion
09:30 – 10:15 3D printing comes with advanced modelling
10:15 – 11:00 What we need to learn deeper to incorporate 3DP in our CV?
11:00 – 12:00 Speaker 1. Advanced 3D printing of ceramic materials. Dr. Martin Schwentenwein Lithoz GmbH, Austria.
12:00 – 13:00 LUNCH
13:00 – 14:00 Speaker 2. 3D printing of chemical reactors.
14:00 – 15:00 Speaker 3. 3D printing for chromatography. Prof. Simone DiMartino. Edinburgh University, United Kingdom.
15:00 – 15:30 Break / coffee
15:30 – 16:30 Speaker 4. 3D printed catalysts. Dr. Vesna Middelkoop. VITO, Belgium.
16:30 – 17:00 Final remarks, picture and delivery of certificates.