KONA Award Presented to Prof Mojtaba Ghadiri at The 53rd Symposium on Powder Technology

On the 7th October 2019, the 53rd Symposium on Powder Technology organised by Hosokawa Foundation took place at Hotel Nikko Osaka, in Japan. It was held by the Council of Powder Technology, Japan and with the sponsorship of Hosokawa Foundation. Nearly 180 people from the industries and universities attended this symposium. The theme of the symposium this year was “Forefront of Fundamentals and Applications of Advances Powder Processing”.

Prof Mojtaba Ghadiri receiving the KONA Award.

In the opening address given by Mr Yoshio Hosokawa, the President of Hosokawa Foundation, he mentioned that this symposium was started in 1968, more than 50 years ago and has been continued almost annually since then. In the KONA Award presentation ceremony, the plaque of KONA Award was handed from the President to Prof Mojtaba Ghadiri. The KONA award has been given to the researchers with excellent performance and contributions to the powder and particle science and technology since 1990. It was first started by Hosokawa Micron Corporation, but taken over by Hosokawa Foundation after its establishment in 1991. Though it had been presented to Japanese researchers by the Foundation till three years ago, it was opened to worldwide and given to the overseas researcher by the Foundation two years ago for the first time.

Photo of Mr Yoshio Hosokawa (left) and Prof Mojtaba Ghadiri (right).

In the special lecture given by Prof Ghadiri, a critique of the current state of the art in rheometry of cohesive powder flow was presented, reviewing feature of a number of instruments widely used for the evaluation of the cohesive powder flow. The review paper published by him and his colleagues titled "Cohesive Powder Flow: Trends and Challenges in Characterisation and Analysis" is featured in this issue of the journal.

Cover of KONA Powder and Particle Journal showing Ghadiri Research Group’s work on powder spreading.

For more information, please refer to the articles [1, 2] published on J-Stage website.