A.W Roberts Award

TUNRA Bulk Solids are excited to announce that Dr Bin Chen has been awarded the “AW Roberts Award” for 2023.

This prestigious award is presented in acknowledgement of the outstanding contribution of a young engineer in the field of Bulk Materials Handling. The award name is in honour of Emeritus Professor Alan Roberts and was established by the Australian Society for Bulk Solids Handling (ASBSH) to recognise and encourage young engineers to pursue their professional careers and contributions to the further the development of Bulk Solids Handling in Australia and globally.

Dr Chen is the Engineering Manager at TUNRA Bulk Solids and has over 13 years of research and consulting experience in the field of bulk solids handling, which has involved a combination of experimental measurement, theoretical modelling, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations.

His activities have covered a broad area of bulk materials handling design and consultancy in areas including transfer chutes, silos/hoppers, feeders, train loadout systems, stackers and reclaimers, ship loading/unloading systems, and prediction of silo wall loads and quaking. The focus of his current consultancy and research is to develop techniques to guide the design of these systems and ultimately solve industrial problems.

He has published 2 patents, 2 book chapters and over 40 research and technical papers.

TUNRA Bulk Solids would like to congratulate Dr Bin Chen on this outstanding achievement.