Schedule
Sunday, 5 May 2024
15 h – 18 h Registration (Hofburg)
14 h 30 ESST Executive Meeting (Hofburg, Radetzky I)
16 h 30 ESST Council Meeting (Hofburg, Künstlerzimmer)
19 h ESST Welcome Reception (Riesenrad Panorama, Invitation AGRANA)
Monday, 6 May 2024
8 h Registration (Hofburg)
8 h Ausschuss für Preisarbeiten (Hofburg,Künstlerzimmer)
9 h 30 ESST SC Meeting (Hofburg,Künstlerzimmer)
9 h 30 VDZ Vorstandssitzung (Hofburg, Radetzky I)
9 h 30 Treffen der “Jungen Mitglieder” (Hofburg, Radetzky III)
13 h 30 – 18 h Opening, Plenary Sessions (Hofburg)
18–20 h Get together in exhibition area
Tuesday, 7 May 2024
9–17 h 15 Plenary Sessions
19 h 30 Reception at Schweizerhaus (Prater)
20 h Dinner at Schweizerhaus (Invitation FZÖ; Dresscode: smart casual)
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
9 h VDZ Hauptversammlung (Hofburg)
10–13 h Plenary Sessions (Hofburg)
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Sunday, 5 May 2024
19 h ESST Welcome Reception
Monday, 6 May 2024
18–20 h Get together in exhibition area
Tuesday, 7 May 2024
9 h 45 Sightseeing tour of Vienna by bus
12 h Guided Tour of Vienna
“Zuckergoscherl & Mehlspeistiger”
in English and German
19 h 30 Dinner at Schweizer Haus
(Dresscode: smart casual)
Program
Monday, 6 May 2024
| 13 h 30 | Opening Bram Fetter, Harald Powitz |
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Plenary Presentation – |
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| 13 h 40 | Norbert Harringer (CTO Agrana) Sustainability and decarbonisation in the sugar market |
| 14 h 10 | Erik Bek-Pedersen (Topsoe) Sugarbased chemicals and fuels – ongoing developments and trends |
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Challenges in decarbonization of sugar production – |
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| 15 h 00 | Josh Gartland Climate Neutrality Toolbox of CEFS |
| 15 h 25 | Coffee break |
| 15 h 55 | Stephane Petit “Digital energy twin” project |
| 16 h 20 | Daniel Nouws, M. van Dijk Integrating thermal vapor recompression in a sugar factory |
| 16 h 45 | Saiedeh Wicht, Yannis Affeldt, Boris Morgenroth Beet sugar factory decarbonisations |
| 17 h 10 |
Nils Träber, Wjatscheslaw Popov, Deike Laue |
| 17 h 35 | Sébastien Schellen, Vincent Couplet, Adrien Couplet Efficient crystallization: Paving the way to 100% electrification in crystallization |
| 18 h 00 | Bestowal of ESST Science Award |
Tuesday, 7 May 2024
| Short Presentations – Chairman: Piotr Wawro |
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| 9 h 00 | Mischa Baier Slurry, viscosity reducer and color remover for efficient and energy-saving sucrose crystallization based on laboratory data and field tests |
| Mario Gürtl Sugarlyzer 5000 – the fully automated factory-control lab |
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| Stefan Schöpf Revolutionary candle type precoat filtration within the sugar industry |
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| I. Bejenke, T. Erichsen, E. Hilscher The future shines bright – Implementation of NIRS-based process-analytical systems in sugar factories |
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| Jakab Rózsa Perfecting supersaturation curves in various sugar crystallization processes |
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| Karin Abraham, Karl Schlumbach, Luiza Fritzsche, Eckhard Flöter The effect of Dextran on sucrose crystal color and morphology |
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Chairman: Stephane Petit |
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| 9 h 40 | Martin Bruhns The beet sugar factory – a European cultural asset |
| 10 h 05 | Dierk Martin ICUMSA®: aims, development and current activities |
| 10 h 30 | Coffee break and Poster Session |
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Sugar technology knowledge transfer to new generations – challenges and good practices – |
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| 11 h 10 |
Panel Discussion |
| 12 h 30 | Lunch |
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Digitization |
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| 13 h 45 | Romy Ries Weihenstephan Standards and OPC UA – Paving the way for transparent and efficient future production |
| 14 h 10 | Bo Stig Energy optimizing vacuum pans through machine learning |
| 14 h 20 |
Brett Stewart |
| 14 h 30 | Wolfgang Klosterhalfen, Mark O. Burkhardt Visual Smart Sensor (VSS) for cossettes quality determination (VSS cossettes) Visual Smart Sensor (VSS) for beet quality determination (VSS external beet quality) |
| 15 h 05 | Coffee break |
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Climate change and beet availability and quality |
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| 15 h 35 | Stefan Frenzel Technical and technological effects of changing texture properties of sugar beet |
| 16 h 00 | Karl Schlumbach, Jörg Tuchert Beet Texture – Technological value of texture altered beets |
| 16 h 25 | Christa Hoffmann Impact of drought stress on yield, quality, and beet texture of sugar beet |
| 16 h 50 | Fernando Finger Relationship of long-term storage and raffinose metabolism in sugarbeet |
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
| 9 h 00 | VDZ-Mitgliederversammlung (nur für VDZ-Mitglieder / only for VDZ members) |
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General Sugar Technology |
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| 10 h | Karl Schlumbach, Susanne Rudolph, Daniel Eichstädt, Eckhard Flöter First steps towards a process model of extraction towers |
| 10 h 25 | Rebekka Birke, B. Zwirzitz, F. Emerstorfer, K.J. Domig Biodegradation potentials of microorganisms in sugar factories |
| 10 h 50 | Janus Egholm, Ricco Kügler In-line detection of foreign particles and color measurement for dry sugar on conveyor belt |
| 11 h 15 | Coffee break |
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General Sugar Technology |
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| 11 h 35 | Felix Geisendörfer, Eckhard Flöter Numerical modelling regarding the role of sucrose crystals for the evaporation process within a discontinuous evaporating crystallizer |
| 11 h 55 | Christiane Lakenbrink Application of rapid methods for product release |
| 12 h 15 | Manuel Ruiz Holst, Leandro Dinnocenzo Solids-liquid filtration technology and solutions in the sugar beet processing and sugar production |
| 12 h 35 | Marlies Rothauer Quality management systems and their further development |
| 12 h 55 | Final remarks |
| 13 h 05 | End of conference |
Posters
Sugar beet analysis using HPCEC-RI and ITP
Henke, S. Gillarová, K. Chalupný, Š. Zvěřina, D. Kulichová, Z. Bubník, P. Kadlec, V. Pour
Crystallization process optimization with on-line process microscope
Markus Honkanen, Hannu Eloranta, Harjeet Singh Bola, Boris Morgenroth, Naresh Saini
Enhancing production safety and reliability: Smart vibration motors for screens and feeders
Markus Kratz
Assessment of dust explosions in the sugar industry with regard to screening technology
Tristan Stephan
ITECA on-line crystal growth technology applied to improving pan stage performance: Review of some applications
Clarie Rua, Catherine Bouche
Alternative suspension agents for slurry production
Jens Mahrholz, Andreas Lehnberger
Comments on validity and benefits of sucrose crystals colour determination by laboratory and indirect real-time method, with comparison between the two
Bjarne Christian Nielsen
Process development of beet sugar factories: reduction of fossil energy and CO2-emmissions based on master plan of technology improvements
Quido Smejkal and Arash Bagherzadeh
Can I improve the efficiency of my batch centrifuge when I change the basket
Philip Schofield
Changes in composition and metabolism of sugarbeet root cell walls during storage
Karen Fugate, Abbas Lafta, Mohamed Khan and Fernando Finger
Application of continuous chromatography for mannitol production
S. Gillarová, S. Henke, Z. Bubník, P. Kadlec, E. Šárka, V. Pour
First steps towards optimized process condition in tower extraction as a function of beet quality
Sakurako Yagami, Karl Schlumbach, Eckhard Flöter
Characterization and purification of technical non-sucrose solutions
Sakurako Yagami, Karl Schlumbach, Eckhard Flöter
Upgrading two falling-film evaporators at the Chortkiv sugar factory, Ukraine – design and installation of centrifugal juice separators below the calandria
Martin Bruhns
Hofburg Vienna
Heldenplatz
1010 Vienna,
Austria