Call for abstracts
Topics of Interest
Conference Objectives
The conference provides a forum for researchers, engineers, technology providers, and industry professionals to exchange knowledge and explore the latest developments in mixing and process engineering.
Its objectives are to:
- Advance the understanding and practical application of mixing technologies across the chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food, mining, and related process industries.
- Strengthen collaboration between academia, industry, equipment manufacturers, and technology providers.
- Showcase innovative models, experimental methods, computational tools, process technologies, and equipment designs.
- Encourage the exchange of knowledge, experience, and best practices for addressing mixing challenges across multiple sectors.
- Support the development of safer, more efficient, sustainable, and scalable industrial processes.
Key Themes
Contributions are invited on topics including, but not limited to:
- Single-phase and multiphase mixing in laminar, transitional, and turbulent flow regimes
- Mixing and processing of complex fluids, including non-Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids, emulsions, and suspensions
- Computational fluid dynamics, numerical modelling, and advanced process simulations
- Mixing coupled with heat and mass transfer
- Mixing, aeration, and gas–liquid transfer in biopharmaceutical and biotechnology processes
- Reactive mixing, crystallization, dissolution, precipitation, and particle formation
- Mixing in continuous and intensified processes, including microreactors, millireactors, and plug-flow systems
- Scale-up, scale-down, and technology-transfer methodologies
- Experimental techniques, process monitoring, and equipment characterization
- Innovative mixer, reactor, and impeller design
Emerging Priorities
The conference particularly welcomes contributions addressing emerging opportunities and future directions in the field:
- Smart and digital mixing: inline sensing, process analytical technology, digital twins, automation, and machine-learning-based monitoring and control
- Flexible and scalable manufacturing: scale-up and scale-down under uncertainty, modular production, and decentralized pharmaceutical manufacturing
- Green and circular processing: energy-efficient mixing, waste minimization, solvent recovery, resource efficiency, and low-carbon manufacturing
- Advanced bioprocessing: mixing strategies for shear-sensitive cells, vaccines, biologics, and other high-value biological products
- Mixing for energy technologies: hydrogen carriers, battery slurries and fluids, carbon capture, utilization and storage, and renewable-energy applications
- Process resilience and sustainability: robust equipment design, lifecycle optimization, and adaptation to changing raw materials and operating conditions