Department staff
Dr Andrew Stapley MA MEng PhD MIFST AMIChemE
Senior Lecturer
- Tel
- +44 (0)1509 222525
- a.g.f.stapley@lboro.ac.uk
Background
1st degree and PhD from University of Cambridge Dept Chemical Engineering. Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham School of Chemical Engineering 1995-99. Joined Loughborough University in 1999.
Professional affiliations
- Associate Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers
- Member of the Society of Chemical Industry
- Member of the Institute of Food Science and Technology
External appointments (since 2000)
- Member of European Confederation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE) Working Party on Drying.
- Subject Editor and Member of the Editorial Board of Transactions IChemE, Part C: Food and Bioproducts Processing (Institution of Chemical Engineers)
- Secretary of the Food Engineering Technical Group of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI)
- Committee Member of the Lipids Technical groups of the Society of Chemcial Industry (SCI)
Research interests and activities
- Heat and mass transfer in food processes
- Spray drying, freeze drying and spray-freeze-drying processes
- Kinetics of fat crystallization and transformation
- Tea infusion
Invited and keynote lectures
- Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (RCS, 2005)
- 16th International Drying Symposium, Hyderabad, India, November 2008 on “Spray Freeze Drying”
- Keynote Presentation at 4th International Symposium on Spray Dried Dairy Products, Melbourne, Australia, April 2009 on “Spray Freeze Drying of Whey Using a Fluidised Bed at Sub-atmospheric Pressures”
Organising / Scientific Committee of International Conferences
- 2nd International Symposium on spray Drying of Milk Products