Ario Madani and Sean Delfel receive awards for their papers at the Paptac Annual General Meeting

This year at the Paptac Annual Meeting in Montreal, Mechanical Engineer PhD candidate Ario Madani won first place in both the Alkis Karnis award for best poster and the Henry Bolker award for Best paper presented in the graduate student conference.  The title of his poster and presentation was:

“Fractionation in yield stress fluids” by A. Madani, J.A. Olson, D. M. Martinez

In addition Sean Delfel was awarded the association’s highest technical award, the IH Weldon award, for best paper presented at any Paptac supported event in the last year.  The Paper was entitled:

“High Performance Multi-Elements Foil (MEF) Pulp Screen Rotor – Pilot and Mill Trials” By M. Hamelin, S. Delfel, J. Olson and C.F. Olivier-Gooch.