Understanding Surface Area Measurements Webinar

May 12, 2020

Overview

Do you understand the surface area of your powdered raw material? Do you know that it critically contributes to the quality of your manufacturing process? Surface area provides information about the amount of surface available to interact with binders which can offer a prediction of how the powder will behave which results in improved finished product quality and reduction in biproduct waste.

Listen to Jack Saad, Associate Scientist and Global Technical Training & Support Manager with Micromeritics, when he explores and compares three techniques to determine surface area of common metal powders:

  • BET method by gas adsorption
  • air permeability method
  • calculated method from laser diffraction and density data

Speaker

Jack G. Saad

Jack G. Saad

Associate Scientist

Jack G. Saad earned his ACS Certified BS Chem degree in chemistry from the University of Georgia. As an undergraduate, he worked with a variety of tungsten compounds to induce photo-initiated polymerization of cyanoacrylate using specific wavelengths of visible light, an application used in the adhesive industry. He began his career at Micromeritics Instrument Corp. as a particle size analyst for their contract laboratory service where he developed protocols to obtain particle size distributions using various techniques. He spent seven years in the pharmaceutical industry in various formulation roles to include raw materials testing, manufacturing support, research and development, and quality control.He rejoined Micromeritics in 2011 in a technical and scientific support role for various characterization techniques.  He also works on collaborations with other organizations and universities to perform research support leading to publications in peer reviewed journals in various fields as well as participate in industry organizations as a subject matter expert, including the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training (ACCET).

Areas of analytical expertise include: particle size, zeta potential analysis, density measurements, chromatography

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