Actively shaping the future of particle technology
Sharing knowledge, promoting innovation, strengthening networks: Scientific progress thrives on participation and dialog. Particle technology as a cross-sectional discipline benefits in particular from scientific exchange. It will once again take center stage at PARTEC 2025. Interested parties still have until January 2025 to submit abstracts to present their research findings at the congress.
Almost a year to go until PARTEC 2025. In September 2025, the international congress will once again offer particle technology experts from research and industry the opportunity to present their latest findings to a high-calibre specialist audience. However, there is not much time left to actively contribute research results to the discussion: anyone who wants to be part of the unique network that promotes innovation and knowledge transfer at the forefront of particle technology must submit their abstract by January 10, 2025.
Without a doubt, PARTEC is the international forum for research and development in particle technology. In 2025, the congress will once again bring together scientists and engineers from all over the world and cover topics such as particle formation, agglomeration and coating processes as well as various industrial applications of particles. The focus will be on all areas of particle science and its applications:
- Powder technologies, gas-solid multiphase flow
- Crushing, breaking, agglomeration and granulation
- Separation, fractionation and sorting
- Mixing and dispersing, liquid-solid multiphase flow
- Product synthesis and formulation, particle interactions, interfaces and stabilization in liquid media
- Innovative analysis methods for laboratory and production
- Nano and aerosol particle technology
- Particle technologies for sustainable products
- Innovation in modeling, simulation, machine learning and generative artificial intelligence (AI)
- Automated process chains in particle technology
Just as relevant for updates on research results from particle technology as the lectures: the poster area at PARTEC.Focus on automation and artificial intelligence
Automation and AI are the current focus topics that the PARTEC Scientific Advisory Board has reformulated for 2025. "A lot of research is currently being carried out in these areas and new applications are also being developed," says Chairman Professor Lutz Mädler, explaining the decision. "New communities are emerging here that we want to network with." His institute at the University of Bremen - the Department of Mechanical Process Engineering - is also taking part in the congress, with topics including particle synthesis, particle formulation, multiphase processes and material data. "An important topic will be the German Research Foundation's priority program on heteroaggregation, which we are coordinating here in Bremen," adds Mädler.
"Personally, I am hoping for new impetus for my own research," says the Chairman with a view to PARTEC 2025. The physicist and process engineer is particularly eager to find answers to the question of how innovation and efficiency can be further increased in the face of limited resources - and in this context, what influence AI will have on particle simulation in the future. With a view to future topics, the congress therefore also specifically addresses young scientists. "We all urgently need them for our community," warns Mädler.
Particles Empowering Tomorrow: Innovations for our Global World - this is the motto that Mädler and the scientific advisory board have chosen for PARTEC 2025. It expresses: Particles come first. And they are important building blocks, both today and on the way to a sustainable future. Particles are essential for future processes, whether it's energy, recycling, value creation or new production technologies.
Scientific exchange across national borders
"I believe in a global world and hope that PARTEC will also reflect this," says Mädler, referring to the international nature of the congress. In 2023, participants from 25 countries traveled to Nuremberg to attend the latest edition of PARTEC - a figure that is traditionally high. Professor Arno Kwade will also be back in 2025. As Head of the Institute of Particle Technology at TU Braunschweig, Kwade was Chairman of PARTEC 2023. "In recent years, PARTEC has always proven its ability to present cutting-edge international research from all areas of particle technology, from basic to industrial application research," says Mädler's predecessor about the congress. He also expects many contributions next year that will showcase the latest innovations in process technology, analytics and products and answer exciting research questions, particularly in terms of sustainability.
Kwade is not traveling to Nuremberg alone, but together with other representatives of the Institute for Particle Technology, which he heads. "We will once again be submitting numerous presentations and posters for 2025 in order to once again contribute to the success of PARTEC from our side," says Kwade. Different main topics of the conference will be addressed according to the six research areas. "This includes, for example, contributions from the field of pharmaceutical process engineering on ring layer granulation or the filling behavior of industrial rotary tablet presses. Without a precise understanding of such processes, it is hardly possible to optimize them in a targeted manner, which is essential in view of the high quality requirements for medicines while demand continues to rise," explains the scientist.
Passing the baton (from left): Ljuba Woppowa (VDI-GVC e.V.), Lutz Mädler (Chair PARTEC 2025) and Arno Kwade (Chair PARTEC 2023) at PARTEC 2025Submit your abstract now and become a speaker at PARTEC 2025
Understanding, developing and optimizing processes: Scientific progress is unthinkable without exchange and dialog. Both Lutz Mädler and Arno Kwade are aware that particle technology in particular, as a cross-sectional discipline, is the key to overcoming numerous global challenges. Mädler mentions energy and recycling first; innovative medicines, batteries and fuel cells and even innovative construction processes for the creation of affordable housing are other topics that are important to Kwade.
So there are many good reasons to take part in PARTEC 2025. And the path to presenting important research results is short: Simply submit a short abstract by 10 January 2025 summarizing the presentation.
