Introduction
Crystallization is an important technique for separation and purification of substances as well as for product design in chemical and life-science industries. Products include e.g. foods, pharmaceuticals or agrochemicals and the amounts produced range from several kg to multi-ton scales per year. In addition, current topics such as sustainability, heat storage and work-up of wastewaters, become of increasing interest in crystallization applications. An interdisciplinary approach is certainly required to address such complex tasks.
The International Workshop on Industrial Crystallization (BIWIC) intends to bring together scientists and engineers from academia and industry, already experienced or beginners, to present and discuss current work and also to identify challenging fields of research of both fundamental and industrial interest. The 23rd workshop continues the successful series of events initiated by Joachim Ulrich in 1990 and held in the last years in Halle, Delft, Tianjin, Odense, Rouen and Daejeon (at some locations already twice). It has developed to a popular workshop in an informal atmosphere with plenty of opportunities for networking and to meet PhD students of various institutions, exchange experiences and initiate collaborations.
We are pleased to host the BIWIC after 2008 again at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems and look forward to welcoming you in September 2016 in Magdeburg.
