Professional Appointments
- 2003-Present Head of Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash
University
- 2000-Present Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash
University
- 1997-1999 Reader, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash
University
- 1994-1996 Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash
University
- 1992-1994 Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Bradford
- 1983-1992 Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of
Bradford
- 1983-1984 Research Assistant, Postgraduate School of Powder
Technology, University of Bradford
- 1980-1982 Process Design Engineer, John Thurley International,
Combustion Engineers, Harrogate, U.K.
Professional Affiliations
- Fellow, The Institution of Chemical Engineers
- Chartered Engineer (I.Chem.E.)
- Member, Joint Victorian Chemical Engineering Committee
- Founding Chairman, Particle Technology Interest Group, JVCEC
- President, Australasian Particle Technology Society
Current Research and Professional Interests
- Research into circulating fluidized beds (CFBs), including
hydrodynamics, heat transfer, combustion and strategies for minimising
emission of nitrogen oxides during coal combustion. Fundamental
modelling of flowing gas-particle suspensions.
- Fluidized bed steam drying of porous materials, including low rank
coals. Study of the mechanism of defluidization of fluidized beds
brought about by the presence of liquid/sticky phases.
- CFD-DEM simulation of gas-particle systems
- Scale-up criteria for gas fluidized beds
- Influence of elevated pressure on fluidized bed behaviour
- The role of interparticle forces in determination of the macroscopic
behaviour of particulate solids. In particular, the influence of
interparticle forces in determination of fluidized bed dynamics.
- The mechanisms of size and density segregation in particulate solids
- Production of water-based and solid particle aerosols.
- Interest in particle technology education. Director of continuing
education courses Particle Technology and Gas Fluidized Beds: Design and
Operation on behalf of Monash University.
- Leader of the Particle Technology and Fluidization
Group, which
maintains an informative set of web pages.
Selected Publications
- Wang, X.S., M.J. Rhodes and B.M. Gibbs, (1994), "Impact of Air Staging
on the Fate of NO and N2O in a CFB Combustor", Combustion and Flame, Vol.
99, pp. 508-515.
- Wang, X.S., M.J. Rhodes and B.M. Gibbs, (1995) "Influence of
Temperature on Solids Flux Profiles in the Riser of a Circulating
Fluidized Bed", Chem. Eng. Sci., Vol. 50, No. 15, pp. 2441-2447.
- Wang, X.S., B.M. Gibbs and M.J. Rhodes , (1995) "Flow Structure
in a CFB Riser - Effect of Operating Temperature", presented at the 13th
International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion, May 7 - 10, 1995,
Orlando, Florida.
- Rhodes, M.J., (1996), "Turbulent Fuidization: Myth or Reality?",
presented at the Fifth International Conference on Circulating Fluidized
Beds, Beijing, China, May 1996, preprints page DT5 1-6.
- Wang, X.S., M.J. Rhodes, B.M. Gibbs and D. Geldart (1996), "Radial
Temperature Distribution in a CFB Riser", presented at the Fifth
International Conference on Circulating Fluidized Beds, Beijing, China,
May 1996, preprints page HM3 1-6.
- Rhodes, M.J., (1996) "What is Turbulent Fluidization?", Powder
Technology, 88, 1, pp. 3-14.
- Wang, X.S., M.J. Rhodes, and B.M. Gibbs and D. Geldart, (1996)
"Convective Wall-Suspension Heat Transfer in Circulating Fluidized Bed
Risers", AIChEJ , Vol. 42, No. 8, p. 2112.
- Wang, X.S., M.J. Rhodes, B.M. Gibbs, and D. Geldart, (1997) "Heat
transfer in dilute gas-particle suspensions", Chem. Eng Sci., 52, 20, pp.
3617 - 3621.
- Rhodes, M.J., M. Sollaart and X.S. Wang, (1998) "Flow structure in a
fast fluidized bed" Powder Technology, Vol. 99, 2, pp. 194-200.
- Rhodes, M.J. (1998), "Introduction to Particle Technology", John Wiley
& Sons, Chichester, England, 320 pages. • Published in proceedings
FLUIDIZATION IX, edited by L.S. Fan and T.M. Knowlton, p. 133.
- Rhodes, M.J., M. Sollaart and X.S. Wang, (1998) "Structure of
Dense-Dilute Interface in Fast Fluidization", presented at the Ninth
International Conference on Fluidization, Durango, Colorado, USA, 17 - 22
May 1998. Published in proceedings FLUIDIZATION IX, edited by L.S. Fan and
T.M. Knowlton, p. 141.
- Nguyen, D.A., and M.J. Rhodes, (1998) "Dispersion of respirable
particles in air", presented at the 3rd World Congress on Particle
Technology, 6-9 July 1998, Brighton, England, paper 187.
- Roy, M., V. Ravi Kumar, B.D. Kulkarni, M. van der Stappen, P.J.
Sanderson and M.J. Rhodes, (1999) "A simple denoising algorithm using
wavelet transform", AIChE Journal, Vol. 54, No. 11, pp.2461-2466.
- Rhodes, M.J., "Particle Technology on CD", Chemical Engineering
Education, Fall, 1999.
- Forsyth, A.J. and M.J. Rhodes, (2000) "A simple model incorporating
the effects of deformation and asperities into the van der Waal's force
for macroscopic spherical solid particles", Journal of Colloid and
Interface Science, 223, pp. 1323-138.
- Forsyth, A.F., S. Hutton, M.J. Rhodes and C.F. Osborne, (2001)
“Effects of interparticle force on the packing fraction of spherical
granular material”, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 87, 24, pp. 244301-1 to
244301-3.
- Kurt Liffman, Kanni Muniandy, Martin Rhodes, David Gutteridge, Guy
Metcalfe (2001) “A segregation mechanism in a vertically shaken bed”,
Granular Matter Vol 3, Issue 4, 205-214.
- Forsyth, A.F., S. Hutton and M.J. Rhodes, “Effect of cohesive
interparticle force on the flow characteristics of granular material”,
Powder Technology, 126 (2002) 150-154.
- Wang, X.S. and M.J. Rhodes, (2003) “Determination of particle
residence time at the walls of gas fluidized beds by discrete element
method simulation”, Chemical Engineering Science, 58, pp387-395.
- Sanderson, J.P. and M.J. Rhodes, (2003) “Hydrodynamic similarity of
solids motion and mixing in bubbling fluidized beds” AIChEJ, Vol 49, No.
No 9, pp. 2317-2327.
- John Sanderson and Martin Rhodes, (2005) "Bubbling fluidized bed
scaling laws: Evaluation at Large Scales", AIChEJ, Vol 51, No. 10, October
2005, 2686-2694.
- S. Takeuchi, X. Shan Wang, M.J. Rhodes, (2005) "Discrete element study
of particle circulation in a 3-D spouted bed", Chemical Engineering
Science, Volume 609, Issue 5, pp 1267-1276.
- Wang, X.S and M.J. Rhodes, (2004) “Mechanistic study of defluidization
by numerical simulation”, Chemical Engineering Science 59, 215-222.
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