
The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Processes
Process Engineering - Current State and Future Trends
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Processes (ECP) series
17–31 May 2023
Chemistry, Biology, Material, Energy, Environment, Food, Engineering, Fields
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ECP 2023 is open for discussion
We are delighted to announce that the ECP 2023 is now open for discussion here.
The upcoming free live session is scheduled on 23 May 2023 at 2:00 pm CEST.
Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9316807774320/WN_q-_58mNJSsGjOg0n9etuMg
Welcome from the Chairs
All process/system-related scientists or researchers are welcome to join this event and share their findings around the following general and related themes including, but not limited to:
- Green chemistry engineering and environment relevant process;
- Experimental, theoretical, and computational research on process development and engineering;
- Process modeling, simulation, optimization, and control;
- Food-relevant processing and improvement of food quality;
- Sustainable and renewable systems engineering;
- Energy system and current demand and electricity market;
- Supply chain management;
- Circular economies;
- Eco-friendly processes and methods.
Live Session Information
During the duration of the conference, one online session will be programmed. The live-streaming platform we are using is Zoom. During the live session, the participants will have the possibility to ask questions during a Q&A session.
The live session is free of charge. The authors who submit submissions to ECP 2023 will have priority for registration (with no extra cost) to the live online session with our keynote speakers. If it is not completely full, registration will be open for unregistered participants. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized. The number of participants in the live session is limited, but the recording will be made available on Sciforum shortly afterward.
We are pleased to invite you to subscribe to our conference so that you can receive email notifications when the live session program is online and open online discussions.
Live Session Program
Live Session
23 May 2023 | 2:00 pm CEST
Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Cravotto
Speaker |
Presentation Topic |
Time in CEST |
Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Cravotto |
Introduction |
2:00 - 2:10 pm |
Prof. Dr. Dariusz Dziki |
Current Trends in Wheat Flour Milling |
2:10 - 2:40 pm |
Prof. Dr. Tom Van Gerven |
The Use of Ultrasound in the Transition to Flow Processes |
2:40 - 3:10 pm |
Dr. Shuyi Li |
Impact of Physical Field Treatment on the Extraction and Interaction of Food Components |
3:10 - 3:40 pm |
Prof. Dr. Robert J. Meier |
The Enthalpy of Formation of Organic Compounds with "Chemical Accuracy" - Challenging the limits of the GC method |
3:40 - 4:10 pm |
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Q&A Session |
4:10 - 4:30 pm |
List of accepted submissions (119)
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sciforum-069291 | Photocatalytic Degradation of Malathion using Hydroxyapatite derived from Chanos chanos and Pangasius dory bones | , | N/A | N/A |
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Farmers widely use malathion, even in households, and significant amounts of seep through groundwater and effluent wastewater. It is toxic to animal and human life. Hence its removal from wastewater is necessary. Here, we report the applicability of hydroxyapatite as a catalyst in the UV-light-assisted degradation of malathion. The hydroxyapatite was synthesized via calcination from milkfish (MF1000) and cream dory (CD1000) bones. FTIR and PXRD results proved the successful synthesis of hydroxyapatite from the fish bones. SEM images revealed that the synthesized hydroxyapatite varies from 19 to 52 nm in size with a pseudo-spherical morphology. Degradation efficiency increases when catalyst dosage or irradiation time is increased. Degradation efficiencies range from 8.18% to 67.80% using MF1000 and from 20.50% to 67.90% using CD1000. Malathion obeys the first-order kinetics with a kinetic constant up to 7.0289 x 10-3 min-1 for 0.6 g catalyst loading. Meanwhile, malathion obeys second-order kinetics with a kinetic constant up to 1.1946 x 10-3 L min-1 mg-1 for 0.6 g loading. Across all catalyst loadings, CD1000 has faster degradation kinetics compared to MF1000. The results of this study validate that the calcined fish bones are effective in removing malathion in an aqueous solution, which significantly impacts lessening the detrimental effects of pesticides in groundwater and wastewater. |
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sciforum-071951 | A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF Jatropha multifida, Euphorbia hirta, AND THEIR MIXTURE ON THE GROWTH RATE OF Escherichia coli. | , | N/A | N/A |
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Medicinal plants are used for treatment of many diseases all around the world. Besides, some medicines are expensive or not readily available. The increasing prevalence of multidrug resistant strains of pathogen microorganisms constitutes an important and growing threat to the public health due to uncontrolled use of synthetic microbial antibiotics. Because of the side effects and the resistance that Pathogenic microorganisms build against the common antibiotics; much recent attention has been made to extract the biologically active compounds which are isolated from plants in herbal medicine.
This study has been carried out in order to compare the effectiveness of two medicinal plants Jatropha multifida, Euphorbia hirta and their mixture on the growth inhibition of pathogenic Escherichia coli, the results showed that the ethanolic extracts of the mixture of two plant extracts showed highest inhibition of growth E. coli bacteria. When used independently Euphorbia hirta showed higher inhibition than Jatropha multifida. |
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sciforum-070945 | REMOVAL OF PHENOL FROM BIOMEDICAL WASTE BY ADSORPTION PROCESS |
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Phenolic compounds are known to be toxic and inflict both severe and long‐lasting effects on both humans and animals. They act as carcinogens and cause damage to the red blood cells and the liver, even at low concentrations. These compounds are important biomedical wastes, and are classified as hazardous substances contaminating groundwater resources. Therefore, the removal of these organics compounds in order to reach the permitted levels before discharging becomes a challenging. Several processes have been developed to remove phenolic compounds from waters, including electrochemical oxidation, redox reactions, membrane separation and photocatalytic degradation. Recently, tendency of phenolic compounds removal involves adsorption and photocatalytic process, using synthetic or natural particles, such as carbon materials and clays. Actually, materials in nanometric scale play an important role in the processes previously mention due to their unique chemical and physical properties. Extensive research has been performed on these compounds resulting in the elucidation of their structure or classification, their sources of entry into the aquatic environment and their reactivity or interaction with other components of the aquatic environment. Significant efforts have been made for the total elimination of phenolic compounds from water before use. This resulted in the development of water treatment technologies including the conventional methods such as activated carbon adsorption, solvent extraction and advanced technologies such as electro Fenton method, membrane‐based separation method, photocatalysis and so on, which have all been successfully used for removal of phenolic compounds from water. Activated carbon is the most promising adsorbent material, presenting high adsorption capacity for many pollutants (dyes, metals etc.). However, the need to turn on more environmental-friendly materials leads to the use of low-cost ones derived from agricultural sources. |
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sciforum-070815 | Assessment of the decarbonization pathways of the cement industry in Uzbekistan | , , , , | N/A | N/A |
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Cement production is one of the key industries responsible for emissions of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide (CO2), which influence climate change. In order to reach zero carbon cement industry, various deep decarbonization pathways involving carbon capture, storage, and utilization (CCSU), using low-carbon material and fuel, optimal process control, and waste heat utilization techniques must be implemented. As for the example of Uzbekistan, approximately 30 facilities generate more than 17 Mt of cement annually and are responsible for 11.3% of the country's total CO2 emissions. In this study, decarbonization pathways for cement plants in Uzbekistan including CCSU, use of alternative fuels, electrification, and waste heat integration techniques are compared based on existing challenges and opportunities. The availability of alternative fuel and material resources suitable for the total production capacity, the comparison of post combustion, pre-combustion, and oxyfuel combustion CCSU methods for the cement plant, and the use of energy-efficient technologies are discussed. |
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sciforum-071111 | Computational Approaches for Molecular Characterization and Functional Annotation of an Uncharacterized Protein of Vibrio cholerae Applying Bioinformatics Tools and Databases | , , | N/A | N/A |
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When inadequate water purification and sewage disposal systems, cholera poses a significant health threat in developing nations, Vibrio cholerae (V. cholerae) is one of the mindful microscopic organisms associated with cholera illness. If cholera is not treated, renal failure, shock, hypokalemia, and pulmonary edema can occur, resulting in death in a matter of hours. The machinery of bacterial virulence factors is what causes this disease. Among the various V. cholerae strains, V. cholerae O1 is the most prevalent and pathogenic strain. The total genome succession of V. cholerae unravels the presence of different genes and uncharacterized proteins whose capabilities are not yet perceived. Therefore, it is essential to comprehend V. cholerae by analyzing the structure and annotating the function of uncharacterized proteins. The NCBI sequence of uncharacterized V. cholerae O1 EET91795.1 proteins has been annotated for this study. Domain family, protein solubility, ligand binding sites, and other parameters have all been determined using a variety of databases and computational tools. The protein's ligand-binding sites were found, and its three-dimensional structure was modeled. According to the analysis, the hotdog family protein may play metabolic roles like thioester hydrolysis in the metabolism of fatty acids and the breakdown of two products such as phenylacetic acid and the pollutant 4-chlorobenzoate. The structural prediction of this protein and detection of binding sites would suggest a potential target to uncover promising inhibitors against the protein to treat infection caused by the target strain. |
Event Chairs

Department of Drug Science and Technology, University of Turin, Italy
He is currently Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Turin and Vice-Director of the Department od Drug Science and Technology. His research activity is documented by about 500 scientific peer-reviewed papers, 21 patents and several books as editor and chapters' author (H. Index 60, 16,100 citations by Scopus; H. Index 70, 20,770 citations by Google Scholar). His main research interests are the development of green and sustainable synthetic and extraction procedures. These studies have paved the road to innovative protocols for chemical process intensification, exploiting non conventional techniques such as high-intensity ultrasound, hydrodynamic cavitation, microwaves, flow chemistry and ball milling. His research group developed a number of hybrid chemical reactors combining different energy sources. He collaborates with several industrial partners in the field of fine chemicals, plant extraction, petrochemicals, pharmaceutics, textiles, food processing and cosmetics. He is the past President of the European Society of Sonochemistry, Editor-in-Chief of Procesess (MDPI), Editor or Editorial Board member of several international journals - Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, Green Processing and Synthesis, Molecules, Magnetochemistry, International Journal of Green Technology, Heliyon etc.. He is member of the Conseil Scientifique de l’UMR ICSM CEA/CNRS/UM/ENSCM (Marcoule, France). He is visiting scientist at the Centre of Bioanalytical Research and Molecular Design (Inst. Translational Medicine and Biotechnology, First Moscow State Medical University - Sechenov) Moscow, Russia. Recent awards: Scientific Research Award 2018 "Organic Chemistry for the Environment, Energy and Nanosciences" by the Italian Chemical Society (SCI – Organic Chemistry). International GENP 2018 Award “Innovation in Chemistry”. Gold Medal 2020 E. Paternò by the Italian Chemical Society
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Department of Thermal Technology and Food Process Engineering, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland
Since 2013, Prof. Dr. Dariusz Dziki has been a professor at the Head of the Department of Thermal Technology and Food Process Engineering. He is now also part of the Faculty of Production Engineering, at the University of Life Sciences in Lublin and a member of the Polish Society of Agricultural Engineering. Dariusz Dziki received his Master of Science degree in Food and Agriculture Engineering from the University of Life Science in Lublin in 1995. He received his Doctor of Science degree in Food and Agriculture Engineering in 2001; cereal processing from the University of Life Science in Lublin. In 2008, he received his Post-doctoral degree and, he received the title of Professor in 2013 He has been the supervisor of two domestic projects: (1) Influence of natural elicitors on nutraceutical potential of wheat sprouts and evaluation of bioaccessibility in vitro and thermostability of bioactive compounds. (2) Preparation of fiber preparation from the husk and fruit-seed coat of oats using innovative hulling and grinding technologies. And he also acted as the main constructor of one foreign and five domestic projects (Polonium). Moreover, he has been awarded 12 times for scientific activity by the Rector of Agriculture University in Lublin, among other things, receiving the award for the publication with the largest number of citations and the publication with the highest impact factor. His main area of research is Food processing, including drying, milling, grinding, baking, pasta production, food fortification, and food powders production.
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Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Professor in industrial fermentation technology ("The Novozymes professor") at the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering since January 2013. The focus of him work is the modeling, development and optimisation of industrial fermentation, biocatalysis, pharmaceutical and food production processes. Central topics in his current work are the application and development of computer-aided tools for elucidation of (bio)process kinetics, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis methods, data-driven modelling and chemometrics (Process Analytical Technology – PAT), continuous production processes, process monitoring and control applied to bioprocesses, and investigation of mass transfer issues related to the characterisation and development of novel and existing processes and bioreactor types, ranging from microbioreactors to full-scale fermentors.
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Session Chairs

Prof. Dr. Antoni Sánchez
Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Antoni Sánchez is Full Professor in the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering of UAB (Autonomous University of Barcelona). He is member of the Technological Centre for the integrated treatment of water, liquid and solid waste streams (BIO- GLS), part of the TECNIO ACC1O Network for Research Groups with high rate of technology transfer (Government of Catalonia). He is the Principal Investigator of the Research Group on Composting (GICOM), which currently has 15 members. He has participated in 20 projects within regional, national and European calls in the field of biotechnology and especially in environment technologies based on biological processes. Additionally, he has participated in more than 40 contracts and technology transfer agreements with companies or governments. His research is focused on environmental engineering and, more specifically, in the design and use of biological systems for the treatment of organic waste (composting and anaerobic digestion) and recently in SSF (solid-state fermentation for obtaining valuable products from waste) and in nanotechnology for environmental remediation. Because of this activity, he has published more than 180 indexed articles with more than 10000 citations. More details of these publications can be found here. He is currently Associate Editor of the journal Waste Management and member of the Editorial Board of the journals Bioresource Technology and Waste Management and Research, which are three publications that are the main references in the field of waste management and treatment

Prof. Dr. Gade Pandu Rangaiah
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Gade Pandu Rangaiah currently works at the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore. He does research in Chemical Engineering. The broad objective of his research is to develop and apply better methods for process modelling, optimisation and control to achieve efficient, profitable and reliable processes. Recent research is on multi-objective optimization and its applications to process design, process retrofitting/revamping of existing processes, and plantwide control. Subjects taught by him include Process Optimisation, Mass and Energy Balances, Process Modeling, Pinch Analysis, Numerical Methods, Heat Transfer, Cost Estimation & Economic Evaluation and Design Project, many of which are related to my research interests.

Prof. Dr. Evangelos Tsotsas
Thermal Process Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Universitaetsplatz 2, Germany
Evangelos Tsotsas holds the Chair of Thermal Process Engineering at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany) since 1994. He has a PhD (1985) and a habilitation (1990) from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and he was a Senior Process Specialist at the Dow Chemical Company from 1991 to 1994. With a group of currently around 25 PhD and postdoc researchers, the main focus of his work is on drying, and on particle formulation processes related to drying, such as spray fluidized bed agglomeration, granulation and coating. The group has extensive experimental facilities in these fields, including various types of equipment for particle characterization, 3D imaging and process monitoring. Novel discrete models (such as pore network models for wetting and drying, Monte-Carlo methods for particulate processes, thermal DEM, combinations of DEM with CFD and the volume of fluid method), but also continuous approaches (such as population balances) belong to the research portfolio of the group, along with methods of model-based process control. Industrial applications are usually in fine chemicals, foods and pharmaceuticals. Evangelos Tsotsas has authored more than 500 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and he is the editor of the five-volume book series Modern Drying Technology. Recipient of the Hosokawa Award for Innovation and the ProcessNet Award for Excellence in Drying Research, Evangelos Tsotsas has served and is serving in various functions of, e.g., the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the European and German Working Party on Drying, and the German Working Party on Agglomeration.

Dr. Bipro R. Dhar
Environmental Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada
Dr. Bipro Dhar is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta. His research combines principles of environmental biotechnology, bioelectrochemistry, and physicochemical processes to develop advanced bioenergy, resource recovery, and biosensing technologies for waste and wastewater industries. He published 85+ journal articles, 60 conference publications, and 7 book chapters. He was awarded the University of Alberta’s 2021 Petro-Canada Emerging Innovator Award, the 2020 Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) Summit Early Accomplishment Award, and the 2018–2019 Faculty of Engineering Early-Career Research Award.

Dr. Jui-Yuan Lee
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Dr. Jui-Yuan Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology. His research centers on chemical process integration and optimization, with particular research interests in energy systems. He is the author of more than 100 Scopus-indexed publications, with a total of about 1,500 citations and an h-index of 23. Dr. Lee is working with collaborators in Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Mainland China and South Africa.

Dr. Enrique Rosales-Asensio
Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Industrial and Civil Engineering, ULPGC, Campus de Tafira s/n, Spain
D. in Industrial Engineering from the School of Industrial Engineering of the UNED and Industrial Engineering from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with postgraduate training at master level in Business Administration and Management (University of Alcalá), Project Management (University of Salamanca), and Integrated Management Systems (University of the Balearic Islands). As a result of my doctoral thesis (entitled "Applicability of waste heat from thermal power plants located in the EU-28 in district heating networks") and as an integral part of it, I published my first three research articles in journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR)-all of them located within the first decile of the area of Energy and Fuels for the year 2014. The aforementioned pan-European research articles confirm that my stay (of 12 months) in a research center of international prestige such as the Institute for Environment and Sustainability of the Joint Research Centre (IES-JRC; Ispra, Italy), was beneficial for my research. Regarding my research activity, I have published 42 scientific articles in journals indexed in the JCR; I have been PI of two regional R+D+i projects with competitive call; I have co-directed three doctoral theses in which relevant contributions were generated; I accredit 7 relevant publications in collaboration with researchers belonging to foreign research centers; I have been author of 12 book chapters that collect results of scientific or technological research; I have edited 7 international books and 5 special issues of journals indexed in the JCR; I have regularly evaluated articles for journals indexed in the JCR; I have participated, as associate editor, in the editorial committees of the journals Energies, Sustainability, Electronics and Processes (all indexed in the JCR); and I have contributed to 10 research congresses with relative quality indexes. Regarding my teaching merits it would be worth mentioning that I was, from September 2015 to September 2018, Collaborating Professor at the American University of Europe in offic

Prof. Dr. Chi-Fai Chau
Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Prof. Dr. Chau Chi-Fai is affiliated to Food science, National Chung Hsing University Taiwan. Dr. Chau Chi-Fai is currently providing services as professor. Dr. Chau Chi-Fai has authored and co-authored multiple peer-reviewed scientific papers and presented works at many national and International conferences. Dr. Chau Chi-Fai contributions have acclaimed recognition from honourable subject experts around the world. Dr. Chau Chi-Fai is actively associated with different societies and academies. Dr. Chau Chi-Fai academic career is decorated with several reputed awards and funding. Dr. Chau Chi-Fai research interests include Functional food development、Food security、Food regulation、Dietary fiber.

Prof. Dr. José Manuel Moreno-Rojas
Food Science and Health, Andalusian Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training (IFAPA), Spain
Degree in chemistry (2000). Degree in Food Science and Technology (2005). Univ. Cordoba, Spain. MSc Chemistry. Herbicides analysis in olive oil. (2002) PhD University of Córdoba (2005). Applications of catalysis to Green Chemistry. Postdoctoral researcher (2005-2008) at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (Ispra, Italy). Main topic: Use of stable isotope ratios (IRMS) for food traceability and fight against fraud. 2008. Researcher at IFAPA and since 2018 Principal Researcher. 2012-2017. Head of the Department of Food Science and Technology. 2017-on. Head of the Department of Food Science and Health. Since 2012, Head of the Laboratory for Stable Isotopes and Mass Spectrometry at IFAPA (Córdoba, Spain). Publications: > 110 SCI publications and > 20 projects with public and private bodies.

Prof. Dr. Kuo-Lin Huang
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Dr. Kuo-Lin Huang is a Professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST). Previously, he worked as an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor at the same Department. He earned a Master degree in Environmental Engineering from National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan) in 1985 and a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineer from Clarkson University (USA) in 2001. His current research interests are broadly clustered in the areas of environmental and electrochemical technologies. He is particularly interested in developing electrochemical techniques for resource recovery, removal/degradation of (emerging) inorganic/organic pollutants, emission/monitoring of toxic air pollutants, fabrication of electrodes/sensors, and proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Prof. Huang has participated in the scientific committee of several conferences and associations and serves as a reviewer in a wide range of international renowned journals and for grant proposals of some institutes. He has published ~90 papers in international journals with Science Citation Index (SCI) since 2002. He is on the editorial boards of several international journals. He also serves as a supervisor for Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research (TAAR) presently.

Dr. Farooq Sher
Department of Engineering, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Dr Farooq Sher is Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at Nottingham Trent University. His undergraduate degree was in Chemical Engineering, followed by MSc Chemical Engineering from the University of Leeds UK. He was awarded PhD in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from the University of Nottingham UK. Dr Sher has been involved in commissioning and operation of a fluidised bed combustor, a UK Engineering and Physical Research Council funded project (EPSRC, grant no. EP/ EP/M01536X/1), the overall budget of the project was £1 million. He has published several research papers, book chapters and editorials apart from this he is the editor of different international scientific journals. He has reviewed hundreds of research papers for several high impact journals.

Prof. Dr. Juan Francisco García Martín
Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Dr. Juan Francisco García Martín was born in Linares (Spain) in 1979. He earned a B.Sc. in Chemistry in 2001 and afterwards he obtained a Ph.D. summa cum laude (European Doctorate Mention) in 2007, both from the University of Jaén (Spain). Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Granada (Spain), University College Dublin (Ireland) and Instituto de la Grasa (Spanish National Research Council), and meanwhile did several research stays at Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry (Spanish National Research Council) and the Universities Paul Sabatier Toulouse III (France), Claude Bernard Lyon I (France) and Geisenheim (Germany). He was also lecturer at the Universities of Jaén (Spain), Granada (Spain) and Málaga (Spain), and since 2016 he has been Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Seville (Spain).

Dr. Christophe Bengoa
Departament d’Enginyeria Química (DEQ), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Avinguda dels Països Catalans, Spain
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering since September 1st, 2007. Head of the Chemical Engineering Department since November 28th, 2020. DEA in “Sciences des Matériaux” from Université de Caen (France) in 1987. Ph.D. in Chemistry, speciality Chemical Engineering from the Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona (Spain) in 1993. He has spent several extended postdoctoral visits in laboratory GEPEA, Université de Nantes (France), working in electrochemical engineering and bioengineering. He joined the technology transfer centre of URV where he held the position of project engineer during three years. Researcher of the Spanish programme Ramón y Cajal between 2003 and 2007. His research areas of interest are: recovery and production of energy vectors and high-value molecules from fresh and residual biomass: production of biogas from sewage sludge and/or microalgae by anaerobic digestion or codigestion; production of biocrude by hydrothermal liquefaction of microalgae, manure or sewage sludge; extraction and utilisation of valuable materials from biomass as sewage sludge and/or microalgae (lipids, protein, cellulose, enzymes); development of new extraction schemes with ionic liquids or deep eutectic solvents (municipal and industrial sludge, agriculture residues, fresh and residual microalgae and finally, insects); production of high value chemicals as levulinic acid (from cellulose extracted from sewage sludge or agriculture residues) or biodiesel (from lipids extracted from sewage sludge, microalgae or insects). He has participated in 7 U.E. contracts, the last one in the FP6 as manager (FP6-018525). He has also participated in 30 competitive Spanish research projects and in 65 R & D contracts of special relevance with companies and/or public administrations, 35 of them as principal investigator. He has supervised 8 PhD students, 2 Post-Doctoral students, 10 Master-thesis students and more than 40 under-graduated students from several countries (Spain, France, Egypt, Malaysia, Yemen, Lebanon, etc.).
Event Committee

process systems engineering; environmental engineering; sustainable development in chemical and process industries; process design; retrofit and optimization; energy integration; water and waste reduction; recycling; cleaner production; indicators of sust

Departamento de Engenharia Química, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), razil
food processing and engineering; chemical engineering; food chemistry; food analysis

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech
mathematical modeling; mechanical properties; process optimization; rheological modeling; spectrophotometry; multivariate data analysis

granular flow; fluidization; fluidized bed; computational fluid dynamics; CFD; two-fluid modeling; discrete element method; bubbles; electrical capacitance tomography

Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, USA
proteins; sample preparation; process optimization; liquid chromatography; biotechnology; enzymes; food industry; fermentation biotechnology

Thermal Process Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, Germany
fluid mechanics; numerical analysis; CFD simulation; engineering thermodynamics

Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science, Ryerson University, Canada
anaerobic digestion; co-digestion; biohydrogen and biomethane production; pretreatment of municipal solid wastes; volatile fatty acid production from waste

Faculty of Industrial Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Austria
system process engineering; bioplastics; in situ brownfield remediation; additive manufacturing

Group of Chemical Analysis Applied to the Industry, Environment and Agroalimentary Products (Aqaimpa). Department of Chemistry. University of La Laguna (ULL), Spain
separation techniques; food, environmental and biological analysis; mass spectrometry; endocrine disruptors; vitamins; plastic migrants; nanomaterials; miniaturized extraction techniques

Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politechnic of Turin, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 1029 Turin, Italy
hydrogen production; biorefinery; wastewater; heterogeneous catalysis

Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
biomass energy biochar gasification sustainability weeding syngas hydrogen

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech
energy conversion; drying technology; waste heat recovery; heat exchangers; biomass drying; heat transfer; condensation

CNR-ISPA, National Research Council-Institute of Sciences of Food Production, Italy
volatile organic compounds; food aroma; food microbiology; food biotechnology; food chemistry; sensory evaluation; flavour chemistry

Fundación Canaria Parque Científico Tecnológico, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
metabolomics; phytochemistry; antioxidant activity; NMR spectroscopy; GC-MS; HPLC; LC-MS; chromatography; bioactive compounds; algae; natural products; ultrasounds

Department of Mining, Topography and Structural Engineering, University of León, Spain
environmental geochemistry; soil pollution; soil washing; hazardous materials management

Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
heat transfer; polymeric hollow fiber; heat exchanger

Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology (IKFT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
biomass thermochemical conversion process design; auger reactor design; heat transfer in moving beds of particles; design of condensation systems for pyrolysis applications; biochar applications

Berlin School of Culture and Design, Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW Berlin), Germany
carbon nanofibers; needle-free electrospinning; mycelium Pleurotus Ostreatus /polymer nano-composites; 3D printing; 2D/ 3D design process; pattern design; fashion design; smart textiles

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan
machine learning and AI applications; process quality control and engineering optimization; machine vision and inspection

Research Institute for Automotive Model-Based Control, Waseda University, Japan
energy and thermal management of xEV; AI/ML application in electrified transportation; carbon-neutral fuel engines for electrified powertrain; waste heat utilization

Doctoral School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Debrecen, Hungary
food technology; rheology; quality of plant origin foods and raw materials; automation in food processing

photocatalysis; advanced oxidation processes; environmental catalysis; polymer chemical recycling; electrospun membrane based processes; environmental sustainable processes; polymer nanocomposites

Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; POPs; soil/sediment remediation; wastewater treatment; anaerobic digestion; biochar

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Lamar University, USA
biotechnology; microalgae; energy-positive domestic water and wastewater treatment: bioremediation of various industrial wastewaters; water treatment and testing systems for emergencies; food–water–environment nexus

process systems engineering; chemometrics; process synthesis; surrogate modelling; real-time optimization
Keynote Speakers

The use of ultrasound in the transition to flow processes
Prof. Dr. Ir. Tom Van Gerven is professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of KU Leuven (Belgium). His research focuses on process intensification, in particular by the use of external and localised energy sources (ultrasound, light), to improve transport phenomena (mass and energy transfer, mixing) and chemical activation with the aim of resource efficiency and recovery. Fields in which these energy sources have been applied include solvent extraction, crystallisation, leaching, metal purification and CO2 valorisation. Another area of process intensification is the integration of different processes, where the group has worked on integrated hydro- and pyrometallurgy flow sheets and mechanochemical activation. In general the developed technologies are applicable to chemical synthesis and environmental applications.

Trained as a chemist with focus on Theoretical Chemistry, and a PhD in experimental low temperature physics, the author subsequently became an expert in Physical, Analytical and Computational Chemistry, High-Throughput Experimentation and Data Management, along with a good understanding of Process Technology. Formerly working for the Dutch chemical and materials company DSM) (1985-2019) in a larger variety of roles, and having been an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of York, U.K., for almost 20 years, and a Visiting Scientist in the Research Center Juelich, Germany, after retiring Robert J Meier is now active as an independent scientist.

Department of Thermal Technology and Food Process Engineering, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland
Current trends in wheat flour millin
Since 2013, Prof. Dr. Dariusz Dziki has been a professor at the Head of the Department of Thermal Technology and Food Process Engineering. He is now also part of the Faculty of Production Engineering, at the University of Life Sciences in Lublin and a member of the Polish Society of Agricultural Engineering. Dariusz Dziki received his Master of Science degree in Food and Agriculture Engineering from the University of Life Science in Lublin in 1995. He received his Doctor of Science degree in Food and Agriculture Engineering in 2001; cereal processing from the University of Life Science in Lublin. In 2008, he received his Post-doctoral degree and, he received the title of Professor in 2013 He has been the supervisor of two domestic projects: (1) Influence of natural elicitors on nutraceutical potential of wheat sprouts and evaluation of bioaccessibility in vitro and thermostability of bioactive compounds. (2) Preparation of fiber preparation from the husk and fruit-seed coat of oats using innovative hulling and grinding technologies. And he also acted as the main constructor of one foreign and five domestic projects (Polonium). Moreover, he has been awarded 12 times for scientific activity by the Rector of Agriculture University in Lublin, among other things, receiving the award for the publication with the largest number of citations and the publication with the highest impact factor. His main area of research is Food processing, including drying, milling, grinding, baking, pasta production, food fortification, and food powders production.

Impact of physical field treatment on the extraction and interaction of food components
Shuyi Li, Ph.D in Food Science, Associate Professor, who graduated from Huazhong Agricultural University, and works in Wuhan Polytechnic University since 2014. She stayed in University of Turin as a visiting scholar and cooperated with Professor Giancarlo Cravotto for 1 year in 2020. Her research fields include: 1) Bioactivity and bioavailability of dietary polyphenols; 2) Interaction between selenium and other nutrients in food resource; 3) Postharvest preservation and quality control of characteristic agricultural products, etc. She has presided and participated more than 25 research projects involving the National Natural Science Foundation project, International Cooperation project and Product R&D project. She has published over 50 papers as first author or corresponding author, and owned over ten patents for invention. She achieved the honor of “One-hundred outstanding female scientific and technological innovation talents” of Hubei Province, China in 2020.
Instructions for Authors
To present your research at the ECP2023:
- Create an account on Sciforum. If you do not have one, then click on ‘New Submission’ in the upper-right corner of the window, or by clicking on ‘Submit Abstract’ at the top of this webpage.
- Submit a short abstract in English (150–300 words) before 13 March 2023.
- The Conference Committee will evaluate all the submitted abstracts, and authors will be notified by 27 March 2023 about acceptance.
- If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author will be invited to prepare a full description of their work (max. 6 pages), optionally accompanied by a Poster/PowerPoint/Video Presentation (max. 5 minutes), for the submission deadline of 17 April 2023. Authors will receive a notification about the acceptance of their papers by 30 April 2023.
- The manuscripts and presentations will be available on sciforum.net for discussion and rating during the time of the conference, from 17–31 May 2023.
- All submissions will be reviewed using the powerful text comparison tool iThenticate. This procedure aims to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism. Submissions will then be peer-reviewed by conference committees. After the conference, all submissions will be published on sciforum.net, and only the proceeding paper (3-6 pages) will be published with doi in the MDPI Engineering Proceedings journal (ISSN 2673-4591 Indexed in Scopus)
Note: Publication of proceedings paper is free of charge.
Before publication, Engineering Proceedings journal will check the plagiarism issue again. Submissions with a lack of novelty will not be published in the journal. - Participants of this e-conference will also be encouraged to submit a full paper to the conference Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Processes: Process Engineering—Current State and Future Trends (ECP2023)" in Processes with a 20% discount on the article processing charge (APC).
Proceedings papers must be prepared in MS Word using the Proceedings template and converted to PDF before submission. They should follow this organization:
- Title;
- Full author names;
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses;
- Abstract;
- Keywords;
- Introduction;
- Methods;
- Results and Discussion;
- Conclusions;
- Conflict of Interest;
- (Acknowledgements);
- References.
The manuscript should be at least three pages (including figures, tables, and references) and not exceed six pages. Authors are asked to keep their papers as concise as possible. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame that can superimpose the text and complicate the layout.
Please note that the manuscript cannot be published in any place other than the conference proceedings. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal website and ensure that your manuscript submission adheres to these guidelines.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software to be displayed online along with the manuscript. Slides can be prepared the same way as for any traditional conference. They should be converted to PDF format before submission.
Authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. This is a unique way of presenting your research and discussing it with peers from all over the world. Videos should be no longer than 3–5 minutes and prepared in one of the following formats: mp4/webm/ogg (max size: 200Mb). Videos should be submitted before 29 March 2023.
Posters will be available on this conference website during and after the event. As with papers presented on the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters. Posters without an accompanying proceedings paper should be presented in the Poster Session.
After abstract acceptance, if you wish to submit your presentation slides, poster, or video without a proceedings paper, please upload a copy of the short abstract as PDF and Word files, in the corresponding required fields, and upload your file in the corresponding optional field. Submissions without a proceedings paper will not be added to the proceedings of the conference.
Full-paper versions of accepted submissions are encouraged to be submitted to the conference Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Processes: Process Engineering—Current State and Future Trends (ECP2023)" after the conference. These full papers should be novel and significantly different from the proceedings papers. These papers will be subject to peer review after they are submitted using the journal submission system.
All authors must disclose all relationships or interests that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. This should be conveyed in a separate ‘Conflict of Interest’ statement preceding the ‘Acknowledgments’ and ‘References’ sections at the end of the manuscript. If there is no conflict, please state ‘The authors declare no conflict of interest.’ Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under the ‘Acknowledgments’ section.
MDPI, the owner of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a communication paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).
List of Authors (357)
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to launch the following awards.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 1
As a sponsor, Processes would like to award the best paper as selected by all the conference committees. The award will consist of CHF 500. We look forward to posting your contributions.Criteria for Evaluation of the Best Paper Award:
Criteria
- Full paper must be submitted to ECP2023;
- Originality/Novelty of the paper;
- Significance of content;
- Scientific soundness;
- Interest to the readers;
- English language and style.
Evaluation
- Each Evaluation Committee member will provide an assessment for each applicant in terms of the criteria outlined above;
- Total score for each presentation will be ranked, from the highest to lowest;
- If two or more authors have the same score, further evaluation will be carried out;
- All decisions made by the Evaluation Committee are final.
Number of Awards Available: 1
As a sponsor, Processes would like to grant an award (CHF 500) for the best Presentation presented at the conference. This prize is awarded by a jury to the best Presentation presented at the conference.
Criteria for Evaluation of the Best Presentation Award:
Criteria
- Title (with authors and affiliations);
- Introduction/Objectives/Aims;
- Methods;
- Results;
- Conclusion;
- References;
- Acknowledgments;
- Contact information;
- Video presentation.
Evaluation
During the conference, the chair is invited to judge the quality of the presentations. The criteria of judgment on the presentation include the ability to summarize the content of the work and encourage interest in looking at the presentation. In addition, the clarity of presentation files and appearance quality will be considered.
Conference Secretariat
S1. Environmental and Green Processes
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Antoni Sánchez, Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Bipro R. Dhar, Environmental Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada
S2. Energy Systems
Session Chairs
Dr. Enrique Rosales-Asensio, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Industrial and Civil Engineering, ULPGC, Campus de Tafira s/n, Spain
Dr. Jui-Yuan Lee, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Prof. Dr. Juan Francisco García Martín, Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
S3. Food Processes
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Chi-Fai Chau, Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Prof. Dr. José Manuel Moreno-Rojas, Food Science and Health, Andalusian Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training (IFAPA), Spain
S4. Chemical Processes and Systems
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Gade Pandu Rangaiah, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Prof. Dr. Kuo-Lin Huang, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Dr. Christophe Bengoa, Departament d’Enginyeria Química (DEQ), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Avinguda dels Països Catalans, Spain
S5. Particle processes
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. Evangelos Tsotsas, Thermal Process Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Universitaetsplatz 2, Germany