Technical Papers and Presentations

The efforts to integrate and/or expand the renewables into the overall energy scheme are drastically increasing in Europe. This integration might somehow alter the energy scheme resulting into shortcomings (e.g. security of supply is not met). Therefore, a number of strategies and ... Read More

Optimization by means of computational tools has been stunningly useful for different industrial furnaces. However, the complexity of the equations, the wide range of characteristic times in the process, and the difficulty to extract precise enough data to model a combustion chamber ... Read More

Spray drying is one of the most commonly used methods to produce a powder out of a liquid and is widely used in the food industry. During spray drying, the liquid is atomised into hot air and dried in the drying chamber within seconds to minutes. The residence time, which is the contact ... Read More

Whereas the physic models of fluid lubrication should be able to provide quantitative predictions to industrial problems, it is somehow demanding to provide the input data to feed these high-level equation systems. The operating conditions are generally available, and the material ... Read More

This presentation concerns a novel technique ("Indentation Plastometry") for the rapid and versatile measurement of the plasticity and strength characteristics of metallic materials using indentation data. The methodology has recently been developed by former scientists from the ... Read More

IntroductionThe application of power ultrasounds in food dehydration processes have shown a good performance in terms of efficiency, energy reduction and quality of the final product, allowing also a reduction in the convective drying kinetics, and at lower temperatures than conventional ... Read More

Food pastes generally consist of a viscous liquid phase in which a high concentration of solid fillers is embedded and their production often includes a dosing step that involves high speed extrusion. Due to the high volume fraction of solid fillers, this extrusion is not only subject to ... Read More

Fouling accumulation in pipelines is a known problem in industry which is currently treated by mechanical, hydraulic and chemical means. Each requiring a halt in the production to carry out the procedure. Industry requires a method that is non-invasive and can be used in-situ, Ultrasonic ... Read More

3D-scanning of rooms and entire buildings is state of the art and commonly used to obtain and save the digital building structure. This information simplifies appropriate planning for modifications, to equip rooms, for interior design, etc. With a new approach of IR-heating and IR ... Read More

The integration of a Thermal Energy Storage (TES) system in District Heating (DH) networks allows increasing the share of renewables in the energy scheme, but it requires a proper pre-design phase in which the modelling of the TES system is adequately driven. The main purpose of this ... Read More