Current activites
Excellence Award in Comminution and Classification
The call for nominations for the new EFCE Excellence Award in Comminution and Classification will open again in autumn 2023.
The Award is generously sponsored by NETZSCH Grinding & Dispersing.
European Symposium on Comminution and Classification - ESCC
One of the tasks of the Working Party on Comminution and Classification has been to organise the series European Symposium on Comminution and Classification. The first in the series was organised in Frankfurt a. M. in 1962. Since then an European Symposium on Comminution and Classification has been organised regularly.
ESCC brings together individuals from industry and academia who are interested in comminution and classification applications. The symposium offers a platform for contacts between different fields from pharmaceuticals through food processing to heavier applications in mineral processing. Furthermore, the symposium has a strong post-graduate thrust providing research students with the opportunity to present their research to colleagues.
Recent Event in the Series
Working Party meetings
The Working Party Comminution and Classification meets at least once per year for a workshop and industrial visits combined with the business meeting.
Mission statement EFCE WP “Comminution and Classification”
Comminution is a very old discipline. Food has had to be ground since the first days of mankind. A second push was produced by mineral processing. The ore is bound up within the rock. This compound is ground to liberate the locked up ore particles which then can be separated by means of mineral processing, e.g. density separation flotation or leaching. An early description of the grinding and other process steps is given in Agricola, 1556. Around 5 % of the electricity generated worldwide is used for grinding processes, mainly in the ore and cement industry.
There are two main reasons for the comminution of products:
- to separate compounds
- to increase product quality.
One of the best known and best investigated materials is cement: higher strength occurs as particle size is decreased.
The main task of the EFCE Working Party on Comminution and Classification is the organization of the European Symposium on Comminution and Classification (ESCC) that takes place regularly and attracts academic and industrial experts from all over the world. It permits most of the following points as well that are tasks of the WP.
- spread of new research results worldwide
- interaction in between academia and engineering in industry
- transfer of research results in practical use
- improvement of technology
- exchange of research results and best practice in between different countries
- exchange in between different sectors of industry
Working Party members
Chair: |
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| Prof. Dr. Arno Kwade | Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany |
Members (delegates and guest members): |
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| Prof. Dr. Peter Balaz | Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| Prof. Dr. Hakan Benzer | Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey |
| Prof. Dr. Alain Chamayou | Ecole de Mines d‘Albi-Carmaux, France |
| Benoit Clermont |
Magotteaux SA, Vaux-sous-Chèvremont, Belgium |
| Prof. Dr. Magnus Evertsson | Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden |
| Prof. Dr. Jozsef Faitli | University of Miskolc, Hungary |
| Prof. Dr. Christine Frances | INP-ENSIATEC, Toulouse, France |
| Prof. Dr. Mojtaba Ghadiri | University of Leeds, United Kingdom |
| Dr. Michael Juhnke | F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland |
| Prof. Dr. Haim Kalman |
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel |
| Prof. Dr. Vadim Mizonov |
Ivanovo State Power Engineering University, Russia |
| Prof. Dr. Fabio Montagnaro |
University of Naples "Federico II", Italy |
| Dr. Frank Müller | BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany |
| Prof. Dr. Tomas Sverak | Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic |
Events of the Working Party
European Symposium on Comminution and Classification - ESCC
One of the tasks of the Working Party on Comminution and Classification has been to organise the series European Symposium on Comminution and Classification - ESCC. The first in the series was organised in Frankfurt a. M. in 1962. Since then an European Symposium on Comminution and Classification has been organised regularly.
Recent EVent:
Previous ESCCs:
| No | Year | Venue | Further information |
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| 1st | 1962 | Frankfurt, Germany | |
| 2nd | 1966 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 3rd | 1971 | Cannes, France | |
| 4th | 1975 | Nuremberg, Germany | |
| 5th | 1980 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 6th | 1986 | Nuremberg, Germany | |
| 7th | 1990 | Ljubljana, Slovenia | |
| 8th | 1994 | Stockholm, Sweden | |
| 9th | 1998 | Albi, France | |
| 10th | 2002 | Heidelberg, Germany | |
| 11th | 2006 | Budapest, Hungary | |
| 12th | 2009 | Espoo, Finland | |
| 13th | 2013 | Braunschweig, Germany | Conference proceedings |
| 14th | 2015, 7-10 September | Gothenburg, Schweden | Website |
| 15th | 2017, 11-14 September | Izmir-Seferihisar, Turkey | |
| 16th | 2019, 2-4 September | Leeds, United Kingdom | Website |
| 17th | 2022, 27-29 June |
Toulouse, France |
Website |
ESCC brings together individuals from industry and academia who are interested in comminution and classification applications. The symposium offers a platform for contacts between different fields from pharmaceuticals through food processing to heavier applications in mineral processing. Furthermore, the symposium has a strong post-graduate thrust providing research students with the opportunity to present their research to colleagues.
Previous activities
History - ChairmanShip
The EFCE Working Party on Comminution and Classification was started on 10 April 1963 by Professor Hans Rumpf, Germany, the first Chair of the Working Party until December 1976.
He was succeeded by Professor Klaus Schönert, Germany, Chair of the Working Party from 1977 to 1994.
Both contributing immensely to the science of comminution and classification.
Professor Schönert was succeeded by Professor Eric Forssberg, Sweden, who chaired the Working Party from 1995 to 2007, followed by Prof. Kari Heiskanen, Finland, who took over the Chair in May 2007.
In September 2011, Prof. Arno Kwade was elected by the Working Party members to succeed Prof. Kari Heiskanen in the position of Chair of the Working Party.