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Working Party in Mixing


Welcome to the website of the EFCE Working Party on Mixing.

 

Current activities

Mixing17

17TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON MIXING

Thank you for joining the conference!

 


Mixing Awards

2023 Young Researcher Award in Mixing


Award winner: Dr. Margarida Brito

For details see "Awards"

2023 Alvin and Helen Nienow Lifetime Recognition Award in Mixing

Laureate: Professor Alain Liné

For details see "Awards"


Spotlight Talk

Date Topic  
26 April 2022
Overcoming challenges in mixing processes with evolving rheology 
Working Party on Mixing
Recording (YouTube)
1 December 2020 Multiscale Mixing in Multiphase Flows
Working Parties on Mixing & Multiphase Fluid Flow
Recording (YouTube)

Mission, objectives and history of the Working Party

 

Mission

 
The Working Party on Mixing brings together academics and industrialists from all over Europe to make advances in the science and engineering of mixing in the process industries.

Mixing applications extend to a wide range of industries, including fine chemicals, agrichemicals, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, biotechnology, polymer processing, cosmetics and consumer products, food, water treatment, pulp and paper, and minerals processing. These involve diverse mixing operations including:

  • Single phase mixing, from turbulent to laminar flow
  • Dispersions and multiphase mixing
  • Mixing of products high viscosity and complex rheology
  • Mixing in reactive flows
  • Heat transfer and mixing

Depending on the application, diverse types of mixing technology are used, such as batch, and semi-batch tanks, continuous flow mixers (e.g. inline mixers, static mixers), as well novel equipment types, including those used for process intensification.
 


OBJECTIVES

  • To provide a place/framework for academics and industrialists to exchange ideas and identify topics and challenges that are important for the development of new and improved industrial mixing processes.
  • To promote collaboration between both academics and industry in order to tackle the challenges identified and to develop new techniques and tools that will lead to improved and/or novel mixing processes.
  • To ensure an exchange of ideas and scientific knowledge with other EFCE working parties to more effectively improve specific mixing applications.
  • To maintain an active and well-knit international community in the field of mixing
    • via the organization of the European Conference on Mixing every three years,
    • by ensuring a liaison with the North American Mixing Forum and national working parties.

 


HISTORY

 
Special sessions devoted to mixing in national, as well as international conferences on chemical engineering have existed since the 1950s. Later, recurrent demands in mixing research and development in the chemical and food industries gave rise to specialized mixing conferences in the 1970s.

During the 1st European Conference on Mixing, which was held in Cambridge UK in 1974, experts from several European countries decided to set up a Preparatory Committee for a Working Party on Mixing within the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. This Committee met at the occasion of the 2nd European Conference on Mixing in the Chemical and Allied Industry held in Mons, Belgium, in 1977 and decided to set up the Working Party.

The establishment of the Working Party on Mixing was approved by the General Assembly of the EFCE in 1977. The inaugural meeting took place in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on the occasion of the 6th International CHISA Congress in 1978. Until 1986, when the first chairman was appointed, the Secretariat of the WPM was run on an honorary basis by the Czechoslovak Society of Chemical Engineering.

 


SECRETARIAT

  Chairperson Secretary
1986 – 1987 Prof. J. Skřivánek Dr. I. Fořt
1987 – 2004 Prof. P. Ditl Dr. I. Fořt
2004 – 2012 Dr. J. Bertrand Dr. M. Poux (2004 – 2009)
Dr. J. Aubin (2009 – 2012) 
2012 - 2019 Prof. J. Baldyga Dr. J. Aubin
2019 - 2020 Dr. J. Aubin (interim chair)  

Working Party Members

 

Delegates & Elected Members

 

Rufat Abiev Dept. of Optimization of Chemical and Biotechnological Equipment, St Petersburg State Institute of Technology, Russia
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Ville Alopaeus Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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Joelle Aubin (Chair)
Laboratoire de Génie Chimique, University of Toulouse, France
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Alberto Brucato DICPM, University of Palermo, Italy
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Andrea Ducci Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University College London, United Kingdom
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Daniela Dzhonova Institute of Chemical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
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Cláudio Fonte  (Secretary)
Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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Magdalena Jasińska
Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland
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Tomas Jirout Dept. of Process Engineering, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
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Adam Kowalski Unilever, Port Sunlight, United Kingdom
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Matthias Kraume TU Berlin, Germany
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José Carlos Lopes Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
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Giuseppina Montante Dept. of Industrial Chemistry, University of Bologna, Italy
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Jérome Morchain INSA, University of Toulouse, France
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Gul Ozcan-Taskin Dept. Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
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Gustavo Padron Framatome Limited, United Kingdom
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Anders Rasmuson Dept. Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
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Joachim Ritter Bayer AG, Germany
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Radek Sulc Dept. of Process Engineering, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
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Harry Van den Akker Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Ireland
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Guest MEMBERS
 

Federico Alberini   
University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/chemical-engineering/alberini-federico.aspx
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Patrick Anderson Techical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/patrick-anderson/
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Mounir Bouaifi Solvay Lyon, France
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mounir_Bouaifi
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Madalena Dias University of Porto, Portugal
https://lsre-lcm.fe.up.pt/person/13
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Lena Hohl TU Berlin, Germany
https://www.verfahrenstechnik.tuberlin
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Alain Liné INSA Toulouse, France
http://www.toulouse-biotechnology-institute.fr/fr/contacts/alain-line.html
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Daniele Marchisio Politecnico Torino, Italy
https://www.disat.polito.it/personale/scheda/(nominativo)/daniele.marchisio
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Martina Micheletti University College London, United Kingdom
https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=MMICH42
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George Papadakis Imperial College London, United Kingdom
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/g.papadakis
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Pascal Pitiot AmarilisPPT, France
https://amarilisppt.org/en/who-are-we/
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Tom Rodgers The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/tom.rodgers.html
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Ricardo Santos University of Porto, Portugal
https://lsre-lcm.fe.up.pt/person/41
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Mark Simmons University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/chemical-engineering/simmons-mark.aspx
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Stuart Stocks LEO-Pharma A/S, Denmark
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ABBdAFkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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HONARY MEMBERS
 

Joël Bertrand       
Laboratoire de Génie Chimique, University of Toulouse, France
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Alvin Nienow † 5 November 2022 (An Obituary and Memorial by Arthur W. Etchells, DuPont Fellow emeritus)
Serafim Vlaev Institute of Chemical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
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Martine Poux Laboratoire de Génie Chimique, University of Toulouse, France
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JERZY BALDYGA

 
It is with great sadness that we inform you of the sudden passing of Prof. Jerzy Baldyga on 19th November 2019. Jerzy was the current Chairperson of the Working Pary of Mixing. Most importantly, Jerzy was an outstanding scientist and leader in the field of mixing and chemical engineering, and an exceptional person.
Obituary
 

Events

 

Mixing17

17th European Conference on Mixing

Porto, Portugal, 2-5 July 2023

 
Thenak you for your participation.


PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES IN MIXING IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES

29 and 30 June 2021

Disruptions due to COVID-19

 
The 2020 business meeting of the Working Party on Mixing was planned to be held during CHISA 2020 in August. However due to the COVID-19 crisis and the decision to postpone CHISA, the business meeting for the Working Party on Mixing is also postponed. More information will follow in due time.

Two other mixing conferences for the community have also been postponed:

  • ISMIP10, Kobe (Japan), originally planned for 29 June – 2 July 2020, has been postponed until 2021. Information will be found on http://ismip10.com/ in due course.
  • Mixing XXVII, Niagara Falls (Canada), originally planned for June 2020 has been postponed until June 19-24, 2022. Information will be found on https://mixing.net

 


17th European Conference on Mixing

Porto (Portugal), 27-30 June 2021

 
The next European Conference on Mixing will be held in Port, Portugal in June 2021. The conference chair is Prof. José Carlos Lopes, the Portuguese delegate to the Working Party on Mixing of EFCE.
More information can be found at http://mixing17.eu

 

Mixing Awards

 

LIFETIME RECOGNITION AWARD

 
The Lifetime Recognition Award is given every 3 years to a member of the EFCE member countries in recognition of their outstanding contribution to Mixing Science and Technology in Europe. The award is presented at every European Mixing Conference. The next award will be presented at the the 17th European Conference on Mixing.

2023

Liné

The 2023 Alvin and Helen Nienow Lifetime Recognition Award was presented to

Professor Alain Liné, France,

at the 17th European Conference on Mixing in Porto, Portugal.

Press release


2021

The 2021 Nienow Lifetime Recognition Award was presented to

Professor Alberto Brucato, Italy, and Professor Matthias Kraume, Germany,

at the online event "PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES IN MIXING IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES" on 30 June 2021.
Programme 30 June (European Mixing Awards)
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Press release

Brucato

Alberto Brucato


Portrait_Kraume

Matthias Kraume


2018

The 2018 award was presented to

Professor Michael Yianneski, United Kingdom

at the 16th European Conference on Mixing in Toulouse and was sponsored by UNILEVER.

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Prof. Adam Kowalski (Unilever) presents Prof. Michael Yianneskis (UCL) with the Lifetime Recognition Award in Mixing at Mixing16 in Toulouse, September 2018.

Press release

 


YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD

 
The Young Researcher Award was established in 2000 to encourage and recognize young researchers for their quality research in the area of mixing. Any young researcher (less than 35 years old) who has completed their PhD in mixing in a European university and is currently active in the mixing research, science and technology is eligible. The award is presented during the European Conference on Mixing held every 3 years. 

2023

Brito

The 2023 Young Researcher Award in Mixing , sponsored by Ekato, was to

Dr. Margarida Brito

at the 17th European Conference on Mixing in Porto, Portugal.
She was selected by the jury of the EFCE Working Party on Mixing for her excellent PhD thesis on “Mixing Mechanisms in 2D reactors”. Extended abstract

Press release

The Award is generously sponsored by EKATO.


2020/2021

The 2020/2021 Young Researcher Award in Mixing , sponsored by Ekato, was presented to

Dr. Lena Hohl  and  Dr. Franceso Maluta

at the online event "PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES IN MIXING IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES" on 30 June 2021.
Programme 30 June (European Mixing Awards)
 

Press release

Hohl

Lena Hohl


Maluta

Francesco Maluta



2018

The 2018 Young Researcher Award was presented to

Dr. Federico Alberini

at the 16th European Conference on Mixing in Toulouse in September 2018 for his work on the use of advanced experimental techniques to improve mixing of complex fluids. The cash prize was suppported by Bayer and the EFCE. The runner-up was Dr. Antonio Buffo, University of Torino, Italy.
 

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Prof. Jerzy Baldyga, Chairman of the EFCE Working Party on Mixing, presents Dr. Federico Alberini (University of Birmingham) with the 2018 Young Researcher Award in Mixing at Mixing16 held in September 2018 in Toulouse, France

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PAST AWARD WINNERS
 

  Young Researcher Award  Lifetime Recognition Award
2000 Giorgio Micale (Italy) John Smith (UK)
2003 Joëlle Aubin (France) Alvin Nienow (UK)
2006 Giuseppina Montante (Italy) John Bourne (Switzerland) &
Ivan Fort (Czech Republic)
2009 Andrea Ducci (UK) Joël Bertrand (France)
2012 Sebastian Maaß (Germany) Franco Magelli (Italy)
2015 Claudio A. Pereira da Fonte (Portugal) Harry van den Akker (The Netherlands & Ireland)
2018 Federico Alberini (UK) Michael Yianneskis (UK)
2020/2021 Dr. Lena Hohl and Dr. Franceso Maluta Alberto Brucato (Italy) and Matthias Kraume (Germany)

2006

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Lifetime Recognition Award Winners in Bologna, 2006 (from left to right): John Smith, Alvin Nienow, John Bourne, Ivan Fort.
 


2012

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Young Researcher Award winners taken in Poland, 2012 (from left to right): Andrea Ducci, Giuseppina Montante, Joëlle Aubin, Sebastian Maaß.


2015

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Prof. Harry van den Akker receives the BHR Group Award for Lifetime Recognition in Mixing presented by Dr. Gül Özcan-Taskin at the 15th European Conference on Mixing in St. Petersburg, June 2015.


2015

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Dr. Claudio Antonio Pereira da Fonte, 2015 winner of the Young Researcher Award presented in St. Petersburg, June 2015.


2018

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Young Researcher Award winners in Toulouse, 2018 (from left to right): Andrea Ducci, Federico Alberini, Joëlle Aubin, Giuseppina Montante, Claudio Pereira da Fonte.



Previous activities/Archives

 

PREVIOUS EUROPEAN CONFERENCES ON MIXING

  • 1st European Conference on Mixing, 1974, Cambridge, UK
  • 2nd European Conference on Mixing in the Chemical and Allied Industries, February 1977, Mons, Belgium
  • 3rd European Conference on Mixing, April 1979, York, UK
  • 4th European Conference on Mixing, 27-29 April 1982, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands
  • 5th European Conference on Mixing, 10-12 June 1985, Würzburg, Germany
  • 6th European Conference on Mixing, 24-26 May 1988, Pavia, Italy
  • 7th European Conference on Mixing, 18-20 September 1991, Brugges, Belgium
  • 8th European Conference on Mixing, 21-23 September 1994, Cambridge, UK
  • 9th European Conference on Mixing, 18-21 March 1997, Paris, France
  • 10th European Conference on Mixing, 2-5 July 2000, Delft, Netherlands
  • 11th European Conference on Mixing, 14-17 October 2003, Bamberg, Germany
  • 12th European Conference on Mixing, 27-30 June 2006, Bologna, Italy
  • 13th European Conference on Mixing, 14-17 April 2009, London, UK
  • 14th European Conference on Mixing, 10-14 September 2012, Warsaw, Poland
  • 15th European Conference on Mixing, 28 June – 3 July 2015, St Petersburg, Russia
  • 16th European Conference on Mixing, 9-12 September 2018, Toulouse, France

 


16th European Conference on Mixing,

9-12 September 2018, Toulouse France

 
Joelle Aubin, Conference Chair, and the Organizing Committee – Martine Poux, Jérôme Morchain & Alain Liné, would like to thank the all of the participants, the Keynote presenters, the Scientific Committee and the sponsors of the conference for their contribution and involvement in the 16th European Conference on Mixing. Thanks to you all, Mixing 16 was a real success!
The conference attracted more than 180 participants from over 30 countries around the world. The scientific program was rich with keynote lectures from five internationally renowned mixing experts, 48 oral presentations and more than 80 poster presentations on core mixing operations in batch, semi-batch and continuous flows, as well as in novel equipment types.
 


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