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 E/Professor Ted White

 

BScApp BSc (UQ) PhD DIC (Lond) FIEAust

Areas of Expertise:

  • Crystallization
  • Centrifuges
  • Sugar
  • Alumina
  • Statistics

Research Interests

  1. Industrial Crystallization
  2. Sugar Processing
  3. Alumina Precipitation (Bayer Process)
  4. Process Modelling
  5. Data Variability and Statistical Interpretation

Continuing Research

  1. Crystallization.
    1. Growth variation effects in sugar crystallization
    2. Fructose, lactose crystallization
    3. Protein crystallization
    4. Triglyceride crystallization, chocolate, fish oils
  2. Sugar Technology
    1. Centrifuge. Diffuser modelling. Behaviour and improved design
    2. Fluid flow in fibre beds
  3. Iron Ore and Coarse Coal Dewatering

Continuing Education Courses

  • Industrial Crystallization
  • Practical Statistical Methods

Invited Lectures/Courses

  • Sugar Crystallization, South China University of Technolgy, Canton, China (1984).
  • Industrial Crystallization, with M.A. Larson, University of Sydney (1994)

Patents

  1. Joint with BSES on deflector plate to reduce breakage in continuous centrifuges.
  2. With Uniquest on nozzles to improve centrifuge performance.

Selected Publications

WHITE E.T., MACKINTOSH D.L., BUTLER B.K., ZHANG H. and JOHNS M.R., (1998) "Modelling growth rate dispersion in sugar crystallization ", Proc. Aust. Soc. Sugar Cane Technol., 20, 524-531.

FLOOD A.E., JOHNS M.R. and WHITE E.T. (1996) "Mutarotation of d-fructose in aqueous ethanolic solutions and its influence on crystallisation ", Carbohydrate Res.,288, 45-56.

ILIEVSKI D. and WHITE E.T., (1994) "Agglomeration during precipitation: Agglomeration mechanism identification for Al(OH)3 crystals in stirred caustic aluminate solutions", Chem. Eng. Sci., 49, 3227-3239.

JUDGE R.A., JOHNS M.R. and WHITE E.T. (1995) "Protein recovery by bulk crystallization: The recovery of ovalbumin", Biotech. and Bioeng., 48, 316-323.

FIRTH B.A., WHITE E.T., JENSEN B., STANMORE B.R., HE Y. and O'BRIEN M. (1996) "Factors influencing the moisture content of coarse coal after centrifgation ", Coal Prepn., 17, 117-136.

KIRBY L.K., GREIG C.R., ATHERTON P.G., WHITE E.T. and MURRY C.R., (1990) "The performance of a new design of continuous centrifugal", Proc. Aust. Soc. Sugar Cane Technol., 12, 232-244.

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Maintained by: Stephan Tait
Last Updated - 13 September, 2004