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The following is a "sandbox" page to develop draft material for WikipediaR

 Educational Resources for Particle Technology is a tutorial Web site at www.erpt.org -- established in 2000 to compliment the chemical engineering curricula of universities in the United States, which have often neglected to inform students on particle technology1, 2. The goal of ERPT to to provide students and practitioners in the chemical industry with definitions, educational modules, technical information, and practical suggestions to resolve operating problems related to particulate matter3. References: 1 ''Chem. Eng. Prog.'' for April 1994, p 32. 2 ''Chem. Eng. Educ.'' 32: 98-101 (1998). 3 ''Proc. Fourth World Cong. Particle Technology'' (2002, Sydney Australia)

 Examples of Resources Provided by ERPT

 HOW SAFE IS YOUR PARTICLE PROCESSING OPERATION? : The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) -- an AIChE-Technical Industry Alliance -- publishes and posts on the Web The Process Safety Beacon -- a series of one-page bulletins (in several languages). These provide photos and a brief description of an industrial incident and discuss what can be done to avoid or minimize the damage from such incidents. The ERPT Safety Pagehas links to PDF files for eleven of these bulletins about specific problems for processes that involve particulate material.

 AN ON-LINE CALCULATOR FOR THE GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF PARTICLES : The ERPT Particle Characterization Page has an online calculator for the area, volume, and mass of single particles of various shapes and also the area per gram of particles ("specific area") and the number of particles per milligram. The calculations illustrate how dramatically the area per gram increases as particle size drops and how a change from a compact shape (such as a cube) to an extended shape (such as a needle) can significantly increase the surface area.

--- DustSpeck One 21:16, 1 November 2007 (UTC)