• Three intensive days at congress on particle technology
• Dr. Sergiy Antonyuk receives the first Friedrich Löffler Award presented by VDI-GVC
How can you tame something that is ten times smaller than a pinhead and almost invisible? The answers to these and other questions on the state of the art in particle technology were discussed by 454 scientists and engineers at PARTEC, the International Congress on Particle Technology, in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg from 23–25 April 2013. Every second participant travelled to the congress from abroad. Some 370 papers from practice, science and research were devoted to the development of revolutionary materials for the chemical, pharmaceutical, food or building material industry. VDI – Gesellschaft Verfahrenstechnik und Chemieingenieurwesen (VDI-GVC – Association of German Engineers – Association of Process and Chemical Engineering) presented the first Friedrich Löffler Prize to promote young scientists in the field of particle technology. The congress participants were also able to obtain an overview of the current technical developments in screening, mixing, weighing, dosing and analysing particles, powders and bulk solids at the parallel POWTECH, the International Trade Fair for Mechanical Processing Technologies and Instrumentation.
PARTEC sees itself as an international forum for research and development in particle technology. The congress held in English brings together scientists and engineers from all over the world every three years. The discussions cover topics such as processes for particle formation, measurement methods, processes like agglomeration and coating, and diverse industrial applications for particles.
Besides Germany, the participants at PARTEC 2013 came mainly from Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, the USA, Belgium and Australia.
The special attractions this year were the plenary presentations, at which six leading particle scientists gave impulses for international research and development in particle technology.
For example, Prof. Marc-Olivier Coppens of University College London in Great Britain explained how innovative answers to the challenges in particle technology can be found in nature.
Prof. Dr. Hidehiro Kamiya of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan explained how dispersion properties and aggregation behaviour of nanoparticles can be controlled, e.g. in order to improve the development of energy stores.
Prof. Dr. Johannes G. Khinast of Graz TU in Austria presented new simulation techniques for granular flows that make it possible to simulate larger particle systems in an extremely short time, e.g. for improved design and more reliable operation of tablet manufacturing processes.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Peukert of Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg presented the latest findings on manufacturing quantum dots, equipping them with certain optical functions and formulating them, e.g. in the form of semiconductor pastes. This enables, for example, tailor-made nanoparticles to be developed that keep surfaces like car windows or house walls cooler when the sun shines on them.
This year’s congress was chaired by Prof. Jonathan P. K. Seville of Surrey University in Great Britain, who hands over the chair for the next PARTEC to Prof. Herrmann Nirschl of Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) in Germany. “I pass the organization of the next PARTEC on in the knowledge that particle technology is alive and well, both as a fascinating subject for academic research and as a thriving business opportunity. No one who walked around the POWTECH exhibition could be in any doubt about the latter. What was also great to see was that there were plenty of new faces at PARTEC and many new areas of research and application being explored. PARTEC remains the best wide-ranging particle technology meeting in Europe! My warmest thanks to all those who helped to make PARTEC 2013 a success!”
Host of awards for young researchers
The PARTEC Congress provided a top-class setting for the presentation of three awards. VDI-GVC presented the Friedrich Löffler Award to Dr. Sergiy Antonyuk for his outstanding research achievements in adhesion, deformation and breakage behaviour of agglomerates. The award was presented for the first time this year and is worth 3,000 euros. The award is to be presented every three years in future to promote young engineering scientists for their special achievements in the field of particle research, particle technology and product design.
On the second day of the congress, the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) paid tribute to Dr. Carlos Gonzlez Montellano with the Excellence Award in Mechanics of Particulate Solids for his doctor’s thesis on “Applications of the discrete element method to the study of granular materials stored in silos and hoppers”. The award is presented to honour outstanding doctorates and is worth 1,500 euros.
The Best Poster Award donated by scientific publisher Elsevier went to Stefanie Wanka, a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, for her presentation on “Development of a system measuring adhesion forces in powder collectives”. Her poster presentation convinced the jury with its high-quality research, clarity of content and impressive preparation. The prize is worth 250 dollars.
Successful triple event
At POWTECH, the world-leading exhibition for mechanical processing technologies and instrumentation held parallel to PARTEC, 724* exhibitors from 27 countries presented the latest technologies for mixing, size reduction, screening, dosing, weighing and analysis of powders, granules and bulk solids. At TechnoPharm, the international forum for plant planners and operators in the pharmaceutical, food and cosmetics industries, also held at the same time, 235 exhibitors from 16 countries showed the current state of the art in production under the most stringent hygiene standards. Altogether 16,805 visitors came to the exhibition centre to source information at the trade fair duo. One in three of the visitors travelled from abroad. PARTEC participants had the opportunity to visit both trade fairs free of charge.
*) The figures for visitors, exhibitors and space at POWTECH and TechnoPharm are determined and certified according to the standard definitions of FKM, the Society for Voluntary Control of Fair and Exhibition Statistics.
PARTEC 2013: Closing Report
PARTEC 2013: Closing Report
• Three intensive days at congress on particle technology
• Dr. Sergiy Antonyuk receives the first Friedrich Löffler Award presented by VDI-GVC
How can you tame something that is ten times smaller than a pinhead and almost invisible? The answers to these and other questions on the state of the art in particle technology were discussed by 454 scientists and engineers at PARTEC, the International Congress on Particle Technology, in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg from 23–25 April 2013. Every second participant travelled to the congress from abroad. Some 370 papers from practice, science and research were devoted to the development of revolutionary materials for the chemical, pharmaceutical, food or building material industry. VDI – Gesellschaft Verfahrenstechnik und Chemieingenieurwesen (VDI-GVC – Association of German Engineers – Association of Process and Chemical Engineering) presented the first Friedrich Löffler Prize to promote young scientists in the field of particle technology. The congress participants were also able to obtain an overview of the current technical developments in screening, mixing, weighing, dosing and analysing particles, powders and bulk solids at the parallel POWTECH, the International Trade Fair for Mechanical Processing Technologies and Instrumentation.
PARTEC sees itself as an international forum for research and development in particle technology. The congress held in English brings together scientists and engineers from all over the world every three years. The discussions cover topics such as processes for particle formation, measurement methods, processes like agglomeration and coating, and diverse industrial applications for particles.
Besides Germany, the participants at PARTEC 2013 came mainly from Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, the USA, Belgium and Australia.
The special attractions this year were the plenary presentations, at which six leading particle scientists gave impulses for international research and development in particle technology.
For example, Prof. Marc-Olivier Coppens of University College London in Great Britain explained how innovative answers to the challenges in particle technology can be found in nature.
Prof. Dr. Hidehiro Kamiya of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan explained how dispersion properties and aggregation behaviour of nanoparticles can be controlled, e.g. in order to improve the development of energy stores.
Prof. Dr. Johannes G. Khinast of Graz TU in Austria presented new simulation techniques for granular flows that make it possible to simulate larger particle systems in an extremely short time, e.g. for improved design and more reliable operation of tablet manufacturing processes.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Peukert of Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg presented the latest findings on manufacturing quantum dots, equipping them with certain optical functions and formulating them, e.g. in the form of semiconductor pastes. This enables, for example, tailor-made nanoparticles to be developed that keep surfaces like car windows or house walls cooler when the sun shines on them.
This year’s congress was chaired by Prof. Jonathan P. K. Seville of Surrey University in Great Britain, who hands over the chair for the next PARTEC to Prof. Herrmann Nirschl of Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) in Germany. “I pass the organization of the next PARTEC on in the knowledge that particle technology is alive and well, both as a fascinating subject for academic research and as a thriving business opportunity. No one who walked around the POWTECH exhibition could be in any doubt about the latter. What was also great to see was that there were plenty of new faces at PARTEC and many new areas of research and application being explored. PARTEC remains the best wide-ranging particle technology meeting in Europe! My warmest thanks to all those who helped to make PARTEC 2013 a success!”
Host of awards for young researchers
The PARTEC Congress provided a top-class setting for the presentation of three awards. VDI-GVC presented the Friedrich Löffler Award to Dr. Sergiy Antonyuk for his outstanding research achievements in adhesion, deformation and breakage behaviour of agglomerates. The award was presented for the first time this year and is worth 3,000 euros. The award is to be presented every three years in future to promote young engineering scientists for their special achievements in the field of particle research, particle technology and product design.
On the second day of the congress, the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) paid tribute to Dr. Carlos Gonzlez Montellano with the Excellence Award in Mechanics of Particulate Solids for his doctor’s thesis on “Applications of the discrete element method to the study of granular materials stored in silos and hoppers”. The award is presented to honour outstanding doctorates and is worth 1,500 euros.
The Best Poster Award donated by scientific publisher Elsevier went to Stefanie Wanka, a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, for her presentation on “Development of a system measuring adhesion forces in powder collectives”. Her poster presentation convinced the jury with its high-quality research, clarity of content and impressive preparation. The prize is worth 250 dollars.
Successful triple event
At POWTECH, the world-leading exhibition for mechanical processing technologies and instrumentation held parallel to PARTEC, 724* exhibitors from 27 countries presented the latest technologies for mixing, size reduction, screening, dosing, weighing and analysis of powders, granules and bulk solids. At TechnoPharm, the international forum for plant planners and operators in the pharmaceutical, food and cosmetics industries, also held at the same time, 235 exhibitors from 16 countries showed the current state of the art in production under the most stringent hygiene standards. Altogether 16,805 visitors came to the exhibition centre to source information at the trade fair duo. One in three of the visitors travelled from abroad. PARTEC participants had the opportunity to visit both trade fairs free of charge.
*) The figures for visitors, exhibitors and space at POWTECH and TechnoPharm are determined and certified according to the standard definitions of FKM, the Society for Voluntary Control of Fair and Exhibition Statistics.
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Geertje Ihde, Christina Freund
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