Inter-American Drying Conference (IADC’09) with overseas participation

Inter-American Drying Conference (IADC) was first organized in 1997 in Brazil, and successfully followed by the 2nd and 3rd conferences held in Mexico (2001) and Canada (2005). Similarly to Asia-Australia Drying Conference, and Nordic Drying Conference, IADC is a regional event complementing the worldwide bi-annual International Drying Conference. This 4th IADC will be organized in conjunction with 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, in order to involve those overseas participants who will attend the Congress, and who are also interested in drying and dewatering.

Scope

This topical conference is dedicated to RD&D on drying and dewatering.

Fundamentals

  • Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Thermodynamic and Physical Properties

Drying Techniques and Technology

  • Drying of Food and Agricultural Materials
  • Drying of Wood and Paper
  • Drying of Pharmaceuticals and Biomaterials
  • Drying of Chemicals, Polymers, and Miscellaneous Materials

Industrial Processes and Equipment

  • Measurement and Control
  • Process Development and Scale-up
  • System Design, Optimization, and Energy Issues

Special Drying Technologies

  • Novel Drying Techniques
  • Hybrid Technologies

Advanced Dewatering Technologies

  • Industrial and municipal sludge
  • Biomass

Publication

The papers presented at this conference will be included in the WCCE8 proceedings. Full papers of archival value will be published in a special issue of Drying Technology - An International Journal

Key dates

Call for papers: June 15, 2008
3 to 6 pages paper submission: November 30, 20

Organizers

Prof. Robert Legros (Chairman)
Chemical Engineering Department
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
robert.legros@polymtl.ca

Dr. Marzouk Benali
NRCan/CANMET Energy Technology Centre
11615 Lionel-Boulet Blvd., P.O. Box 4800
Varennes, QC, J3X 1S6 Canada
mbenali@nrcan.gc.ca

Dr. Tadeusz Kudra
NRCan/CANMET Energy Technology Centre
11615 Lionel-Boulet Blvd., P.O. Box 4800
Varennes, QC, J3X 1S6 Canada
tkudra@nrcan.gc.ca

Members of the Scientific Committee

Dr. Tadeusz Kudra, NRCan/CANMET Energy Technology Centre-Varennes, Canada (Chairman).
Dr. Michèle Marcotte, AAC/Food Research Development Centre, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada.
Dr. Stefan Grabowski, AAC/Food Research Development Centre, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada.
Dr. Marzouk Benali, NRCan/CANMET Energy Technology Centre-Varennes, Canada.
Prof. Vijaya G. S. Raghavan, McGill University, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, Canada.
Prof. Stefan Cenkowski, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
Dr. Abderrahmane Dermoune, Les Technologies Elcotech, Inc., Sherbrooke, Canada.
Prof. Jamal Seyed-Yagoobi, Illinois Institute Technology, Chicago, USA.
Dr. Dan Poirier, Aeroglide Corporation, Raleigh, USA.
Prof. Marcello Nitz da Costa, Maua Institute of Technology, Sao Caetano do Sol, Brazil.
Prof. Maria A. Silva, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil.
Prof. Sandra C. S. Rocha, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil.
Prof. M. Laura Passos, Engineering School of UFMG, Drying Center of UFSC, Sao Carlo, Brazil.
Prof. Krzysztof Waliszewski, Veracruz Institute of Technology, Veracruz, Mexico.
Prof. Erazmo Herman y Lara, Technology Institute of Tuxtepec, Tuxtepec, Mexico.
Prof. Alejandro Reyes, USACH, Santiago, Chile.
Prof. Claudia I. Ochoa-Martinez, Valle University, Cali, Columbia.
Prof. Rodolfo Mascheroni, CIDCA, LaPlata, Argentina.

Please, direct any correspondence regarding papers to Dr. Tadeusz Kudra at tkudra@nrcan.gc.ca