The 5 th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference
13-15 August 2007, HKUST, HK, China
Conference Report
The 5 th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference was successfully held 13-15 th August 2007 at the conference venue on the campus of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
This conference received 245 abstracts by authors from 33 countries and regions. Later,
218 full papers were submitted by the authors for review. With a rigorous review process involving two peer review reports for each paper, 9 papers were rejected. The revised papers were carefully reviewed again, following which 195 papers were edited and published in the conference proceedings. The total page count of the two-volume proceedings is 1361, published by World Scientific, ISBN-13 978-981-277-998-4. A few copies of the proceedings are available for sale at the conference price. Please send your order to adc07@ust.hk should you wish to purchase a set.
Selected papers will be published in special issues of Drying Technology Journal, Journal of Applied Thermal Engineering, Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, and International Journal of Food Engineering.
There were 166 registered delegates from 29 countries and regions. The top five countries or regions in terms of numbers of delegates except Hong Kong (15) are: China (40), Thailand (15), Japan (14), Malaysia (9), and Australia (7).
Professor Arun S Mujumdar, the founder and honorary Chairman of IDS delivered a plenary lecture after the opening ceremony. There were a total of 12 keynote lectures invited, including one from industry. Details can be found from the Technical Program at the conference web site.
The conference received generous sponsorships from School of Engineering, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, K.C. Wong Education Foundation Fund, Taylor & Francis Group, Pinches Consolidated Industries, Puschner Microwave Power System, Institute of Chemical Engineering - Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China; Shandong Tianli Drying Equipment Ltd, Changzhou Yibu Drying Equipment Co. Ltd.; TianHua Institute of Chemical Machinery & Automation, Wuxi City Linzhou Dryer Factory. World Forum of Crystallization, Filtration and Drying ( WFCFD) sponsored an award.
The following colleagues were recognized during the conference for their contributions to drying research, development, and community service.
Certificate of Merit, Drying Technology Journal, Professor Xiao Dong Chen
Professor Guohua Chen
Young Scientist of Drying in Asia-Pacific Region, Professor Sakamon Devahastin
Excellence in Drying Research , Professor Xiao Dong Chen
Excellence in Drying Process Innovation , Professor Ingvald Str?mmen
Outstanding Contribution to Drying Community , Dr. George Srzednicki
This conference granted the first Arun S Mujumdar Medal, a prestigious award established by students and friends of the Drying Guru in his name, to recognize a person who has made outstanding contributions to drying R&D, mentoring younger generations and promoting drying research on a truly global scale. A picture of the medal is available at our conference web site. The first recipient of the Arun S Mujumdar Medal is Professor Czeslaw Strumillo of Lodz Technical University, Poland , who is well known to the world drying community for his extensive pioneering contributions to drying research, service to international community as well as for mentoring several outstanding researchers in drying. This medal recognizes outstanding contributions to research, service and mentoring- a unique combination of fields of excellence critical to the continuing progress of drying R&D.
The World Forum of Crystallization, Filtration and Drying ( WFCFD) granted its Award of Excellence to Professor Guohua Chen. This is an award administrated by WFCFD independent of the ADC07.
The winners of the Best poster and Best Papers are:
Best Poster: S.M.A. Rahman , Tan Heong Kim and A.S.Mujumdar, An Experimental Study of An Atmospheric Freeze Drying System Using a Vortex Tube and Multimode Heating
Best Papers:
Kamlesh C. Patel and Xiao Dong Chen, Sensitivity Analysis of the Reaction Engineering Approach for Modeling Spray Drying of Whey Protein Concentrate
G.R. Askari, Z. Emam-Djomeh and S.M. Mousavi, Combined Effect's of Coating and Microwave Assisted Hot Air Drying on Kinetics Color Change of Apple Slices
J. Kowalski and Andrzej Rybicki, Rehydration of Stressed Bodies after Drying
The Distinguished Awards of the Conference , initiated by the Conference Chairman and endorsed by the Chairman of the Awards Committee, ADC07, go to Professor Arun Mujumdar , for his visionary move in establishing IDS, his continuous promotion of global drying R&D, his outstanding achievements in drying R&D, his successful mentoring of young generations of drying researchers, and Mrs. Purnima Mujumdar , for her sustained outstanding support and service contributions to drying community.
During the conference, the Members of Editorial Board or Guest-Editors of Drying Technology Journal held a dinner meeting with sponsorship from Taylor and Francis Group. Current status of the journal was reported and the future strategies of further development were discussed.
Photos taken during the conference are available on line at the conference website, http://ihome.ust.hk/~adc07 .
The 6 th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference will be organized by Professor Sakamon Devahastin, King Mongkut's University of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand in 2009 . More information can be found at http://www.geocities.com/sakamon
Report prepared by
Professor Guohua Chen
HKUST, Hong Kong
China
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