Technical Offerings
Technical Papers Presentations
Sabrina Bélanger, of Memorial University of Newfoundland, hosts this year’s technical papers presentations. Each presenter has written a technical paper and will be discussing their subjects with the use of visual aids. This year’s topics and presenters are as follows: Paper Summaries
Corina Guerra, Erin Mayberry and Grant Mayberry -“Tips For Transitioning Between Different Types of Glass”- Salem Community College graduates (USA)
Gary Coyne – “Asking the Right Questions Lets You Make the Right Vacuum System” – Califonia (USA)
Michael Meconi – “Continuous Improvement” – Philips Healthcare, Aurora, Illinois (USA)
Philip Surdam – “Plastic Safety Coating of Laboratory Glassware” – ChemGlass LifeSciences, Vineland New Jersery, (USA)
Michael Hengler – “Freeboard – The Key to Floating Your Seven Foot Glass Boat down the River” – Assistaant Professor of Glass, University of Montana Western, Dillon, MT, (USA)
Joshua Greenfield – “Writing on Glass: Flame, Temperature, and Solvent Resistance of Commercial Writing Implements” – PHD Candidate, University of California, Davis (USA)
Chris Miller – “Precision Vacuum-Formed Nozzle Fabrication” – PHD Candidate, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Wisconsin (USA)
Lee Muholland – “Overview of the BSSG Exam & Competition Programs” – University of Southampton. Highfield, Southampton (UK)
Klaus Paris – “Micro Glass Processing – Hot processing of glass tubes under a microscope” – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology (IKFT) and Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) (Germany)
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Technical Demonstrations
Scott Bankroff – “Marco Fritted Filters”
Michigan State University
Patrick Bennet – “Cutting filters and lenses at precise angles”
University of Minnesota
Chris Bock – “Winding a Flat Quartz Coil”
SeaCubeCo
Joe Gregar – TBD
Argonne National Laboratories
Jim Hodgson – “The Dreaded Beaker Mug”
Kansas State University
Klaus Paris -“Sealing frits into tubes and thoughts on annealing”
Technische Glasbläserei Heino Paris
Benjamin Revis – “Tinting of Safety Coating”
University Of Iowa
Sven Eisenbraun – “Schlenk Line Pro+”
Normag Labor – und Prozesstechnik GmbH
Sven Eisenbraun – “Overpressure Valve”
Normag Labor – und Prozesstechnik GmbH
Marvin Moldow – TBA
Blue Flame Technology
Michael Hengler – “The Stoichiometry of Good Combustion: The Engineering Inside Your Torch.”
University of Montana Western
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Technical Posters
Elija Aller – TBD
Sabrina Belanger – “Drilling Holes in Clear Flat Plate Soft or Borosilicate Glass Using a Drill Press – Cold Working”
This poster explains and demonstrates tricks we use in drilling and aligning holes in plate glass which helps lower brakeage and keeping holes strait. These tricks are developed based on the limitations of the equipment we have on site.
Tracy Drier -“A Short History of Scientific Glassblowing”
Jim Hodgeson – “Fabrication Techniques for a Large Scale Membrane Feeder”
Benjamin Revis -“Tinting of Safety Coating”
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