Permea 2007 summary

Facts and figures

Over 240 people have attended PERMEA07 conference in Siófok, from this there were 73 students (PhD students). The participants came from 29 countries:

Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine and United Kingdom.

Nearly half of the participants came from the Visegrad countries.
Pictures taken during the conference can be seen in the Picture Gallery.

Four plenary lectures (by Robert Field, Suzana Pereira Nunes, Lidietta Giorno and TorOve Leiknes), 13 oral sessions (Novel membranes I-II; Transport and fouling; Water and wastewater I-II; Gas separation I-II; Fuel cells and ionselective membranes; Membrane reactors and bioreactors; Hybrid processes; Pertraction; Pervaporation; Food and beverage – two in parallel) and two poster sessions took place over the four-day conference that comprised 92 oral presentations and 153 posters. A complete set of conference proceedings is available on CD-ROM. Additionally, one-page summaries appeared in Abstract Book. As a result of the conference, a number of selected papers will be published in Desalination.

The PERMEA Evaluating Committee offered awards – sponsored by the European Membrane Society – in the Student and Young Researchers’Contest at the conference in the oral and poster sections. The winners are the following:

BÁNVÖLGYI, Szilvia, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary
Oral – Processing of blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum l.) juice by ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis

BLAHUSIAK, Marek, Slovak Technical University, Bardejov, Slovakia
Poster – Simulation of the adsorption - microfiltration process for boron removal from seawater

DZIARKOWSKA, Katarzyna, Opolski University, Opole, Poland
Poster – Extraction of polyamines by liquid membranes

FEHÉR, Erika, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary
Poster – Continuous enzymatic production of natural flavours in one- and biphasic system with different membrane separation techniques

KOREN, Oshrat, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Arad, Israel
Poster – The relationship between biofouling and scale formation on RO membrane

KRULL, Florian, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Oral – In-situ preparation of supported liquid membranes using inorganic supports and non-volatile liquids

PETER, Jakub, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Prague, Czech Republic
Poster – Synthesis and gas transport properties of hyperbranched polyimides with increased content of linear units

SZEWCZYKOWSKY, Piotr, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Oral – Gyroid membranes made from nanoporous block copolymers.

VAROL, Cihangir, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Poster – Caustic recovery from highly alkaline denim finishing wastewaters using membrane technology

VOLKOV Alexey, A.V.Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Moscow, Russia
Oral – Filtration of wetting/non-wetting liquids through nanoporous membrane material

 
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