Working Party on Drying - WPD

Mission

 

Aims & Objectives of the EFCE-WPD

  
The Working Party aims are:

• to promote science, technology and education in solids drying in EFCE member countries and worldwide;
• promotion of interaction between academia and industry, to allow improvement of drying science and technology and encourage applications in industry of the latest scientific models and discoveries;
• international exchange of knowledge and experience, between scientists as well as between scientists and practising engineers;
• information exchange about the main trends in research on drying performed by the EFCE member countries, i.e. countries having delegates in the WPD;
• information about conferences and meetings held or planned to be held in those countries, and other major interna-tional conferences (e.g. International Drying Symposia);
• information about activities of national working parties on drying of the EFCE member countries;
• to contribute to the definition of standards, nomenclature, recommended techniques and other good practice in drying;
• provision of links to other important sources of information on drying and related subjects;
• any other activities leading to the development and promotion of drying technologies.

 

History

 
The EFCE Working Party was set up in 1980 to provide a forum for drying experts from academia and industry to meet and exchange knowledge and experience. The first chairman was Prof. Ernst Schlunder of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Since then, the Working Party has met regularly and has organised or supported many technical meetings, including a num-ber of the International Drying Symposia (IDS) which have been held in Europe. Plans for future EFCE Drying Working Party meetings and supported events can be found on the Events page.

Full details of the EFCE, its history, the national member societies and the other working parties can be found on the main EFCE information page at http://www.efce.info/.

 

Events

 

EFCE WPD Business Meetings

The Working Party on Drying holds a business meeting once a year. This meeting is often linked with a separate technical meeting of one of the member societies involved in the Working Party. In addition, the WP is happy to support and publicise meetings organised by national groups on drying. Where additional WP meetings are required during the year, they will preferentially be held in conjunction with an existing technical meeting of a national working party, or an international conference. For past meetings see "Previous activities".

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EFCE Spotlight Talks

Spotlight Talks, 20 March 2024 - Electrically-driven dewatering and drying

Recording of the Spotlight Talk (YouTube)

Spotlight Talks, 19 April 2022 - Focus on current drying research within EFCE

Recording of the Spotlight Talk (YouTube)
 

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International conferences related to drying

International Drying Symposia (IDS)

• Next Symposium: IDS2024, Wuxi, PR China 22-25 November 2024.
• IDS 2021, Worchester, MA, USA, 27-30 June 2021, Worchester, MA, USA (postponed by 1 year)
  
  

European Drying Conference

• Recent events in the series:
  EuroDrying'2023, Lodz, Poland, 4-7 July 2023
  EuroDrying'2019 - 7th European Drying Conference, Torino, Italy, 10-12 July 2019 
  
  
• Next European Drying Conference: 
  

  
  9th European drying conference 2025

  Wageningen, The Netherlands, 6-9 July 2025

  Wageningen University & Research and the Working Party on Drying are proud to announce that the 9th European Drying conference (Eurodrying 2025) will be held on 6-9 July in Wageningen, The Netherlands. We welcome you to the city of Wageningen and its international University Campus.

  The registration and call for papers will open soon.
  Deadline for abstract submission: 30 December 2024

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Other International Conferences related to Drying

 

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Meetings of National Groups and Working Parties in the field of Drying:

• AFSIA meetings
• German Drying Working Party meetings
  
• IChemE SDSG meetings
  
• Other events organised by national groups

 

Awards of the Working Party

 

2019 Excellence Award in Drying and Freeze-drying

The Award was presented to Dr. Eng Maciej Jaskulski at the EuroDrying2019 Conference which was in Torino, Italy, on 10-12 July 2019.
 
Sponsor: Criofarma s.a.s

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2019 EFCE Student contest Drying: ideas and challenges for a sustainable world

 

 

Publications in the Field of Drying

 

Previous activities

 

Spotlight Talks 2022 - Focus on current drying research within EFCE

online, 19 April 2022, 9:30 CEST

Recording of the Spotlight Talk (YouTube)

 

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Working Party Meetings

Agendas and Minutes of EFCE-WPD Meetings:

• Minutes of Business Meeting, Hyderabad (India), 11 November 2008
• Minutes of Business Meeting, Copenhagen (DK), 12 June 2008
• Newsletter, 5 November 2007
• Minutes of Business Meeting, Biarritz (F), 24 May 2007
• Minutes of Business Meeting, Budapest (H), 21 August 2006
• Minutes of Business and Technical Meeting, Paris (F), 12 May 2005
• Minutes of Informal Meeting, Sao Paulo, Brazil; 23 August 2004
• Minutes of Business and Technical Meeting, Nuremberg (D), 17 March 2004
• Minutes of Business and Technical Meeting, Crete (GR), 4 September 2003
• Minutes of Business Meeting, Magdeburg (D), 11 April 2002
• Agenda for Business Meeting, Magdeburg (D), 11 April 2002
• Minutes of Special Discussion Meeting, Karlsruhe (D), 11 January 2001
• Minutes of Business Meeting, Noordwijkerhout (NL), 28 August 2000
• Agenda for Business Meeting, Noordwijkerhout (NL), 28 August 2000

 

Presentations from Technical Meetings

Below are presentations from the Technical Meeting held at Magdeburg on 11-12 April 2002.

• Kemp, I C (Hyprotech, AEA Technology, Harwell, UK): Recent developments in the industrial application of dryer modelling
• van Deventer, H C (TNO Environment, Energy and Process Innovation, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands): Advanced drying concepts: adsorption and superheated steam
• Stakic, M B (Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Yugoslavia): Numerical study on hygroscopic capillary-porous material drying in a packed bed
• Dimitriadis, A & Akritidis, C (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece): A model to simulate alfalfa drying in fixed deep-bed
• Slangen, H (DSM Research, Geleen, the Netherlands): Activities of the Solids Processing Industrial Network (SPIN) in the field of drying
• Tsotsas, E (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany) & Groeneweld, H (AMMAG GmbH, Gunshkirchen, Austria): Modular methods for the design and simulation of fluidized bed dryers with indirect heating
• Heinrich S, Ihlow, M, Peglow, M & Morl, L (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany): Theoretical and experimental study of fluidized bed steam drying Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3
• Peglow, M, Henneberg, M, Ihlow, M, Heinrich, S & Morl, L (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany): Coupled population, mass and heat balances for liquid sprayed gas/solid fluidized beds

 

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Past International conferences related to drying