We are glad to present one of our last publications, in PARTICUOLOGY, entitled "A model for predicting the performance and maximizing the drying efficiency of an innovative fountain bed dryer", together with Konrad Rojcewicz, Fabian Dajnowiec and Zbigniew Oksiuta. A mathematical model has been developed, which solves the unsteady state mass and energy balances for the solid, exhaust...

Next May 9 in the Adela Moyua Room of the Faculty of Science and Technology (Leioa Campus), Irati García will defend the Doctoral Thesis entitled "Potential of the oxidative steam reforming of biomass pyrolysis volatiles for sustainable hydrogen production", carried out under the supervision of Professors Maider Amutio and Maite Artetxe.

In the coming weeks, our colleagues Martin Olazar and Mikel Tellabide will travel to China to participate in the 25th edition of the Fluidized Bed Conversion Conference (https://www.fbc25.com/), held in Nanjing from 7th to 10th April. They will present our latest advances in hydrodynamics, applications, and scaling of conical spouted beds. Meet them in Nanjing!

Next July 19 at 11:30 in the Adela Moyua Room of the Faculty of Science and Technology (Leioa Campus), Zuria Tabernilla Sánchez will defend the Doctoral Thesis entitled "Ethylene oligomerization to sustainable fuel production", carried out under the supervision of Professors Andrés T. Aguayo and Eva Epelde.

We have approached the thermal splitting of pistachio nuts in conical spouted bed, attaining up to 60% of split pistachios and preserving their quality. Results have been recently published in Food and Bioprocess Technology: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11947-024-03373-5

Recently we have published a new paper in Powder Technology, entitled "Quantitative assessment of the prominence of fish hooks in hydrocyclones over different operation and geometrical parameters". According to our work, the fish hook effect is a real fact that affects the performance of hydrocyclones, proposing two new parameters for their characterization: dip and peak efficiencies. ...

We are glad to present one of our last publications, in Chemical Engineering Science, entitled "A novel alternative method for pistachio nuts splitting using conical spouted beds". Hydrodynamic runs have been conducted to ascertain the configurations that are suitable for low temperature batch drying and splitting of pistachio nuts. The results show that a single cycle of wetting, drying and...

During June 21-22, Palash Kumar Mollick participated in the CATCHEM-2023 conference, held in Valencia. He presented a poster about the thermodynamic assessment of the sorption enhanced steam reforming of pyrolysis volatiles and delivered an oral communication about the comparison between the conventional and plasma catalyzed steam reforming processes for green hydrogen production from...

Next July 14 at 11:30 in the Board Room of the Faculty of Education (Leioa Campus), Xabier Sukunza Pérez will defend the Doctoral Thesis entitled "Scaling up of fountain confined conical spouted bed dryers", carried out under the supervision of Professors Martin Olazar and Roberto Aguado.

Proud to share our latest article, in collaboration with Prof. Stefan Heinrich and his group, from the Institute of Solids Process Engineering and Particle Technology (Hamburg University of Technology). In this work, derived from the PhD Thesis developed by Aitor Atxutegi, we propose the use of CFD-DEM for the simulation of conical spouted beds with internal devices and different types of...