On the 20th of May we organized a successful event about drying at pilot scale. During this event, speakers from different suppliers of pilot scale drying equipment presented their capabilities and illustrated this with examples and case studies. An earlier event in March focused on spray drying, this event aimed on other concentration and drying [...]
The EFCE organizes EFCE spotlight talks. 21 May a series of talks is organized about 'Drying research: focus on freeze-drying, lyophilization, spray-drying and product quality'. Download the link to find more information about this webinar and how to subscribe. webinars-EFCE-2021-DryingDownload
Tuesday the 2th of March we had a successful event about Spray drying at pilot scale. Tetra Pak, Bodec, Bioprocess facility Delft, NIZO and Wageningen University showed their capabilities to dry products at pilot scale and presented some interesting examples. We were really happy with the number of people who attended. In total 78 attendees [...]
Download here the full report of the NWGD Symposium 2020 in the BULK magazine. NWGD-Symposium-2020_BULKDownload
24.11.2020 In November 2020 Maarten Schutyser, chair of NWGD (Netherlands Working Group Drying), welcomed over 90 people from all over the world to the online NWGD symposium with the theme: “Drying in challenging times”. In the first block Juray de Wilde from Université Catholique de Louvain (France) talked about vortex chamber technology and Eoin Murphy [...]
With this message we would like to announce the course on „Drying – Fundamentals and Applications“ that will be held ONLINE in English language, from 29 March (noon) to 1 April (noon), 2021. Organized by Forschungs-Gesellschaft Verfahrens-Technik e.V. (GVT). It is decided to go ONLINE due to the still continuing pandemic situation and related travel [...]
An online NWGD mini-symposium entitled ‘Spray drying of ferments and living bacteria’ was organized on 12 October 2020 to celebrate Evelien Vaessen’s PhD defence that day. Martijn van der Hoeven from Nutricia R&D presented about ‘Fermenting more than yoghurts: infant milk ingredients produced by fermentation’, https://www.nutriciaresearch.com/our-unique-fermentation-process for more info. Isabel Siemons, Wageningen University presented about [...]
On 23 September we had a lively online NWGD Teams meeting on drying of vegetables with presentations from Unilever, Wageningen University and Université Laval. First, Xavier Lauteslager introduced Unilever and its new R&D facilities in Wageningen, being part of the Wageningen ecosystem. Subsequently, Joanne Siccama shared results from her PhD research about a new spray [...]
De Vereniging Nederlandse Werkgroep Drogen (NWGD) en ISPT (Institute Sustainable Process Technology) beleggen op dinsdagmiddag 9 april 2019 een bijeenkomst over warmtepompen in het droogproces. Tijdens de bijeenkomst bij Smurfit Kappa in Roermond komt aan de orde hoe een pilot warmtepomp succesvol is toegepast om restenergie uit een droogkap om te zetten naar verse stoom [...]
Donderdagmiddag 13 april is het kenniscentrum voor keramiek (TCKI) in Velp bezocht door de Nederlandse Werkgroep Drogen (NWGD). De NWGD is hartelijk verwelkomt door Hans Marks, adjunct directeur TCKI. Na de goed verzorgde lunch volgde een presentatie over het TCKI. Het TCKI voert onafhankelijk en objectief onderzoek uit en geeft adviezen met betrekking tot bouwmaterialen. Hiertoe [...]
