Tórshavn,
the Faroe Islands,
June 1-3

Nordic Rheology Conference 2003

The conference aim were as usual to cover all aspects on rheology and this year, special focus was placed on "Suspensions and Emulsions". The aim was to arrive at large gathering of people interested in the science and the technological developments in the field. The conference was held at the Nordic House in Tórshavn. Topics within the theme was covered by plenary lectures by specially invited speakers. We would also like to draw your attention to the rheology course, which was held a day before the conference at the University of Faroe Islands. This course was given excellent access to topical Rhelogy subject.

Plenary lectures was held within the theme of the conference. The following renowned scientists had agreed to contribute to the meeting with a lecture on their special area of interest:

David Boger  (Australia), Henning Winter  (USA), Arild Saasen (Norway) and Kevin Taylor (Saudi Arabia).

There was a mixture of plenary lectures by the invited speakers and contributions from NRS members and others. The topics will cover all aspects of rheology with the plenary lectures representing the special theme. There wasl also a poster presentation and an exhibition by rheology companies. The Annual Meeting of NRS was held in connection with the conference programme.

Invited Speakers - Presentations

• H. Henning Winter - Rheology of Breaking and Healing of Polymer Gels.

• Arild Saasen - Rheological consequences of environmental restrictions and occupational hygiene requirements while drilling offshore wells

• Kevin Taylor - Rheology of Hydrophobically Associating Polymers for Oilfield Applications.

• David Boger - Environmental rheology

Oral Presentations  

Poster Presentations

• Evaluation of extensional rheology by contraction and squeeze flow

• Magnetic Rheology Precise Actuator

• Properties of gluten from organic wheat measured by oscillation measurements

• Rheological Characterization as a Tool for Evaluating Mineral Suspensions for Paper Coatings

• An Approach to Rheological Evaluation of Dynamic Water Retention Measurements for Paper Coating Colours

• How to measure rheological properties of bentonite suspensions on construction sites?

• Predicting sensory potato texture quality using full uniaxial compression curves

• Rheological behavior of polyethylene with peroxide crosslinking agent 

• Salt induced changes in micellization and gelation of a PEO-PPO-PEO block copolymer.

• Preparation of " high stability, agglomerate - free zirconia suspensions with  high solids content "applied for nano scale bioceramic composites 

• DMA Analysis of Biofilm Swelling

• A Study of Wall Slip in the Rheological Characterisation of Full and Low Fat Mayonnaise

• Rheological Modeling of NanoIndentation and Verification of the Fracture mechanics of Multi-layered nanostructured coatings

• Rheological Properties Of Atmospheric Gases Variation in Nanoscale Slot Under Action of Mechanical Load and Electric

A rheology course on June 1 was proceed the conference and gave a basic introduction and brought up to speed basic rheology as well as gave an introduction to the special topic, Suspensions and Emulsions, by the invited speakers. The rheology course was also highlight industrial aspects. 

The rheology course started at 12:00 with lunch on Sunday, June 1st at the University of Faroe Islands and continued until 18:00 . One hour had been set aside for each speaker, where questions could be taken. There was also a half-hour discussion with all the speakers at the end of the course.

• H. Henning Winter  - A dialog with Viscoelasticity

• Arild Saasen - How Rheological properties of drilling fluids affect drilling operations

• Kevin Taylor  - Rheological Properties of Water-Soluble Polymers used in Improved Oil Recovery

• David Boger - Exploiting the rheology of particulate fluids

The organising committee consist of Jóannes Djurhuus , Peter Szabo, Sarah Mason, Niall Young, Mats Stading.