updated to Jul 28 2026

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	SUNDAY, September 27th
SU 17:00-18:30	Registration
	MONDAY, September 28th
MO 08:00-09:00	Registration
MO 09:00-09:30	Opening Session
	Room: SKY Chairperson: Fabio Montagnaro, Arno Kwade
MO 09:30-10:15	Plenary Lecture
	Room: SKY, Chairperson: Mojtaba Ghadiri
-	SUSTAINABILITY IN COMMINUTION - FROM MAXIMUM ENERGY EFFICIENCY TO CIRCULAR ECONOMY
	Kwade Arno
MO 10:15-10:50	Coffee Break & Poster Exhibition
MO 10:50-11:20	Keynote
	Room: SKY, Chairperson: Holger Lieberwirth
-	MILLING OF PHARMACEUTICAL ACTIVE INGREDIENTS FOR ORALLY INHALED DRUG PRODUCTS
	Benassi Andrea
	PARALLEL SESSIONS
MO 11:30-12:30	COMMINUTION MECHANISMS
	Room: SKY, Chairperson: tbd
	IMPACT OF GRINDING PROCESSES ON THE MICROSTRUCTURE AND POROSITY OF WHEAT BRAN
	Rondeau-Mouro Corinne, Deborde Catherine, Lahaye Marc, Falourd Xavier, Mayer-Laigle Claire, Barbar Reine
	MUTUAL INTERACTIONS IN MULTI-COMPONENT COMMINUTION WITH STIRRED MEDIA MILLS: EFFECTS ON BREAKAGE RATE AND PARTICLE TRANSPORT
	Tobaben Maximilian, Kwade Arno
	CO2 CAPTURE PERFORMANCE AND PARTICLE COMMINUTION BEHAVIOR OF BRAZILIAN DOLOMITE IN A LAB-SCALE DUAL INTERCONNECTED FLUIDIZED BED FOR CALCIUM LOOPING APPLICATION UNDER SIMULATED NATURAL GAS COMBUSTION
	Massa Fiorella, Toledo Rubens Coutinho, Scala Fabrizio, Montagnaro Fabio, Carvalho João Andrade, Ávila Ivonete, Coppola Antonio
MO 11:30-12:30	PARTICLE CHARACTERISATION
	Room: SEA, Chairperson: tbd
	ON THE MEASUREMENT OF THE WORK-HARDENING EFFECTS OF MECHANICAL GRINDING
	Scardi Paolo, D'Incau Mirco
	AUTOMATION OF THE SIEVING TECHNIQUE FOR ONLINE PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS WITHIN A MILLING CIRCUIT
	Chautsane Thomas Thabiso, Phadi-Shivambu Terence, Boje Edward
	LABORATORY‑SCALE ASSESSMENT OF SHEAR AND IMPACT ATTRITION OF CARBAMAZEPINE DIHYDRATE CRYSTALS DURING AGITATED FILTER BED DRYING
	Goh Wei Pin, Ghadiri Mojtaba
MO 12:30-13:40	Buffet Lunch
MO 13:40-14:10	Keynote
	Room: SKY, Chairperson: Maurizio Troiano
-	THE DARK ART OF MILLING: OPTIMISING THE MILLING OF LOW CARBON FUELS FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS
	Williams Orla
	PARALLEL SESSIONS
MO 14:20-15:40	APPLICATION-DRIVEN PARTICLE PROCESSING
	Room: SKY, Chairperson: Mohsen Yahyaei
	SIZE REDUCTION, CLASSIFICATION, SPHERONIZATION, AND RECYCLING OF ELECTRODE ACTIVE RAW AND RECYCLING MATERIALS
	Karhoff Daniel-Christian, Mertens Fabian, Giersemehl Marc
	THERMOCHEMICAL STORAGE OF SOLAR ENERGY VIA FLUIDISED BED CALCIUM LOOPING – RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SORBENT PROPERTIES AND PROCESS PERFORMANCES UNDER VARIABLE OPERATING CONDITIONS
	Marotta Giusy, Li Shouzhuang, Tregambi Claudio, Di Lauro Francesca, Balsamo Marco, Montagnaro Fabio, Jarvinen Mika, Salatino Piero, Solimene Roberto
	DEVELOPMENT OF AN AXIAL GAP ROTARY SHEAR FOR THE SAMPLING OF SORTED FOOD WASTE SUB-CATEGORY
	Rácz Ádám, Faitli József
	MODIFICATION OF MAGNESIUM-ALUMINATE SPINEL POWDER FOR THERMAL SPRAY APPLICATIONS
	Celko Ladislav, Bednarikova Vendula, Michalkova Monika, Tkachenko Serhii, Petrus Josef, Kraxner Jozef
MO 14:20-15:40	BREAKAGE FUNDAMENTALS & MODELLING
	Room: SEA, Chairperson: Claire Mayer-Laigle
	RETHINKING BREAKAGE FOR MINERAL RECOVERY
	Powell Malcolm
	BREAKAGE BEHAVIOR OF A LAYER OF CORN KERNELS UNDER UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION
	Kruszelnicka Weronika, Tomporowski Andrzej, Ambrose Kingsly
	IN SITU CHARACTERIZATION OF DEFORMATION AND FRACTURE MECHANISMS IN BI-COMPONENT AGGLOMERATES USING µCT-BASED DIGITAL VOLUME CORRELATION AND SPATIAL STATISTICS
	Sinnwell Yannik, Nikolaus Kai, Schäfer Vanessa, Sergiy Antonyuk
	FROM BREAKAGE INITIATION TO FRAGMENTATION: STRUCTURE-DEPENDENT BREAKAGE AND MODELING OF MULTICOMPONENT SYNTHETIC LITHIUM SLAGS
	Bahnmüller Simon, Kwade Arno, Schilde Carsten
MO 15:40-16:20	Coffee Break & Poster Exhibition
	PARALLEL SESSIONS
MO 16:20-17:20	MILLS & CIRCUITS
	Room: SKY, Chairperson: Steffen Sander
	IMPROVING COMMINUTION CIRCUIT PERFORMANCE IN AN IRON PROCESSING PLANT A LOW-COST CASE STUDY
	Zare Saeid, Yahyaei Mohsen
	A COMPARISON BETWEEN LAB SCALE AND PILOT SCALE BALL MILL FOR THE GRINDING OF WET SWITCHGRASS
	Thouret Mathis, Lampoh Komlanvi, Soriano Martin Guillermo, Delenne Jean-Yves, Mayer-Laigle Claire
	ROLLER PRESS APPLICATIONS ALONG THE VALUE CHAIN OF IRON
	Heinicke Felix
MO 16:20-17:20	MECHANOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
	Room: SEA, Chairperson: Maria Rosaria Acocella
	MECHANOCHEMICAL CLAY ACTIVATION: ENERGY DEMAND, STRESSING MECHANICS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL SCALABILITY
	Brandt Ann-Christin, Stolz Mario
	STRESS-BASED MODELLING OF MECHANOCHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS
	Oldhues Victor Marcus, Breitung Sandra, Kwade Arno
	ROLE OF MILLING STRESS IN THE MECHANOCHEMICAL ACTIVATION OF CLAY
	Sulaiman Tarek, Kwade Arno
MO 17:30-18:30	EFCE MEETING
MO 19:30-22-00	Conference Reception - Agorà Morelli, via Domenico Morelli 61/A
	TUESDAY, September 29th
TU 08:00-09:00	Registration
TU 9:00-9:45	Plenary Lecture
	Room: SKY, Chairperson: Ladislav Celko
-	MECHANOCHEMICAL AND CAVITATION METHODS IN THE CONVERSION OF AGRO-INDUSTRIAL WASTE TO VALUABLE PRODUCTS, MATERIALS AND ENERGY
	Cravotto Giancarlo
TU 9:45-10:30	Coffee Break & Poster Exhibition
TU 10:30-11:00	Keynote
	Room: SKY, Chairperson: Antonio Coppola
-	GREEN CRUSHING? THE POTENTIAL OF MECHANICAL PATHWAYS TO ENGINEER POWDERS FROM LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS FOR ENERGY, MATERIALS AND GREEN CHEMISTRY
	Mayer-Laigle Claire
	PARALLEL SESSIONS
TU 11:10-12:30	SIMULATION & MODELLING
	Room: SKY, Chairperson: tbd
	MODELLING WET-OPERATED STIRRED MEDIA MILLS WITH POPULATION BALANCES BASED ON MECHANISTIC MODELS
	Brandt Ann-Christin, Schilde Carsten, Kwade Arno
	VALIDATING THE IMPROVED ENERGY TRANSFER MODEL IN STIRRED MEDIA MILLS WITH DIFFERENT ORES
	Wuschke Anna, Tobaben Maximilian, Gurnett Ion, Kwade Arno
	INVESTIGATION OF COMPOSITION DEPENDENT BREAKAGE IN HIGH PRESSURE GRINDING ROLLS (HPGR) USING A NOVEL BREAKAGE MODEL IN DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD (DEM) SIMULATIONS
	Hirschberger Paul, Kruggel-Emden Harald
	SIMULATION OF CLASSIFICATION IN A GRAVITATIONAL INERTIAL AIR CLASSIFIER USING A FAST CFD-DPM APPROACH METHOD
	Petit Horacio Andres, Guimaraes Erick, Tavares Luis Marcelo
TU 11:10-12:30	MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR
	Room: SEA, Chairperson: Weronika Kruszelnicka
	INFLUENCE OF MICROSTRUCTURE ON SLAG BREAKAGE BEHAVIOR
	Vo Thu Trang, Peuker Urs Alexander
	MECHANO-GRINDING OF PLATINUM SLAGS USING STIRRED MILLS – KEY THINGS TO CONSIDER
	Ponto Lobiane, Bremner Sherry, Mainza Aubrey
	DEM SIMULATION OF THE COMPACTION BEHAVIOUR OF LACTOSE POWDER COMBINED WITH µCT ANALYSIS
	Lier André, Sinnwell Yannik, Nikolaus Kai, Sergiy Antonyuk
	WET GRINDING OF THERMOPLASTICS
	Schmidt Jochen, Tischer Florentin, Peukert Wolfgang
TU 12:30-13:40	Buffet Lunch
TU 13:40-14:10	Keynote
	Room: SKY, Chairperson: Sandra Breitung-Faes
-	WHEN COMMINUTION AND CLASSIFICATION CIRCUITS START TALKING: COMMUNICATIVE PROCESS AUTOMATION AND THE FUTURE OF AUTONOMY
	Yahyaei Mohsen
	PARALLEL SESSIONS
TU 14:20-15:20	PARTICLE & SEPARATION TECHNOLOGY
	Room: SKY, Chairperson: Orla Williams
	DIFFERENT TOP-DOWN APPROACHES TO TWO-DIMENSIONAL NANOPARTICLES WITH PLATE-LIKE GEOMETRY
	Damm Cornelia, Cardenas Lopez Paola, Walter Johannes, Winzer Bettina, Moß Moritz, Peukert Wolfgang
	A DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL BENCHMARKING AND DECISION SUPPORT IN AGGREGATE PRODUCTION
	Asbjörnsson Gauti, Bhadani Kanihsk, Hulthen Erik, Evertsson Magnus
	USING AN INNOVATIVE SIZE-EXCLUSION EXTRACTION SYSTEM AIMED AT THE ISOLATION OF PLANT-DERIVED EXOSOMES
	Colucci Cante Rosa, Lentini Giulia, Nigro Alessandro, Gaeta Alessia, Pisapia Laura, Nigro Roberto
TU 14:20-15:20	AI & DIGITALISATION
	Room: SEA, Chairperson: Aubrey Mainza
	AI-DRIVEN SURROGATE MODELLING OF WET STIRRED MEDIA MILLS
	Tanneru Yeswanth Sai, Thon Christoph, Schilde Carsten, Kwade Arno
	ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN COMMINUTION: FROM PREDICTIVE MODELS TO AGENTIC DISCOVERY
	Thon Christoph, Hosseinhashemi Somayeh, Xu Tianyu, Schilde Carsten
	INVESTIGATION ON SELECTED METHODS FOR CONDITION AND PROCESS MONITORING IN MINERAL PROCESSING OF LITHIUM ORE
	Eitz Peter, Mezzetti Margarita, Lieberwirth Holger
TU 15:20-16:00	Coffee Break & Poster Exhibition
TU 16:00-16:30	Keynote
	Room: SKY, Chairperson: Malcolm Powell
-	DEFECTS IN PARTICLES - THE UNIVERSE INSIDE
	Peukert Wolfgang
	PARALLEL SESSIONS
TU 16:40-17:40	FLUIDIZED BED PROCESSING
	Room: SKY, Chairperson: tbd
	AN OVERVIEW OF ATTRITION IN THE JETTING REGION OF FLUIDISED BEDS
	Ghadiri Mojtaba, Goh Wei Pin
	SURFACE FINISHING OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED ALUMINUM PARTS THROUGH FLUIDIZED BEDS
	El Hassanin Andrea, Troiano Maurizio, Scala Fabrizio, Solimene Roberto, Squillace Antonino, Salatino Piero
	OPTIMIZATION OF THE SPECIFIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF FLUIDIZED BED OPPOSED JET MILLS FOR HIGH‑PERFORMANCE MATERIALS
	Sander Steffen, Schönfeld Patrick
TU 16:40-17:40	MECHANOCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS & REACTIVITY
	Room: SEA, Chairperson: tbd
	MECHANOCHEMICAL LEACHING OF LITHIUM FROM BATTERY SLAGS: BALANCING RECOVERY AND PROCESSABILITY
	Büttner Lukas, Breitung Sandra
	SUSTAINABLE MECHANOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING OF BIOCHAR FOR ADVANCED HYDROPHOBIC COATINGS
	Acocella Maria Rosaria, Kiani Aida, Viscusi Gianluca, Christian Di Stasi, Gorrasi Giuliana
	EFFECTS OF HIGH-ENERGY KINETIC MILLING CONDITIONS ON THE MECHANOCHEMICALLY ASSISTED SYNTHESIS OF LANTHANUM COBALT OXIDE
	Tkachenko Serhii, Remesova Michaela, Bednarikova Vendula, Gejdos Pavel, Vrankic Martina, Zoz Katharina, Celko Ladislav
TU 20:00:22:00	Conference Dinner-Roof of Hotel Royal Continental, via Partenope 38
	WEDNESDAY, September 30th
WE 08:00-09:00	Registration
WE 9:00-9:45	Plenary Lecture
	Room: SKY, Chairperson: József Faitli
-	ADVANCES IN MODELLING OF MEDIA MILLS
	Tavares Luis Marcelo
WE 9:45-10:30	Coffee Break & Poster Exhibition
WE 10:30-11:00	Keynote
	Room: SKY, Chairperson: Jochen Schmidt
-	UNDERSTANDING THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMMINUTION AND CLASSIFICATION EQUIPMENT IN DESIGNING AND OPTIMISING CIRCUITS FOR EFFICIENT OPERATION
	Mainza Aubrey
	PARALLEL SESSIONS
WE 11:10-12:30	RECYCLING & RESOURCE VALORISATION
	Room: SKY, Chairperson: tbd
	CONCRETE AS A SIMULANT FOR SELECTIVE COMMINUTION AND MATERIAL RECOVERY IN VERTICAL ROLLER MILLS
	Schindler Oliver, Landgraf Pierre, Popov Oleg, Lieberwirth Holger
	RECYCLING OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERY CELLS – MODELLING THE CRUSHING AND MIXING PROCESS
	Klein-Punt Franziska, Born Jannik Guido, Kwade Arno
	ELECTRICAL IMPULSE FRAGMENTATION PRE-TREATMENT OF HARD ROCK LI-ORES
	Mezzetti Margarita, Eitz Peter, Durjagina Asija, Moraes Artuso Lucas, Lieberwirth Holger
	EFFECT OF DRY VS. WET GRINDING ON THE CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE OF PYRITE (FES2) IN NABH4 METHANOLYSIS FOR HYDROGEN GENERATION
	Tokcan Isil, Yildiz Derya
WE 11:10-12:30	CLASSIFICATION & MODELLING
	Room: SEA, Chairperson: tbd
	MODELLING AND CALIBRATION OF THE ANDREWS-MIKA DIAGRAM WITH A TEXTURE-DEPENDENT LIBERATION MODEL
	Moreira Campos Tulio, Hilden Marko, Powell Malcolm, Tavares Luis Marcelo
	MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF A VERTICAL SHAFT IMPACT CRUSHER IN SIZE REDUCTION OF AGGREGATE ROCK
	Guimaraes Erick, Gama Thales, Tavares Luis Marcelo
	POTENTIAL OF AIR CLASSIFICATION IN PROCESS‑PLANT DUST RECYCLING: A MINI‑REVIEW
	Lanzerstorfer Christof
WE 12:30-12:40	closing
WE 12:40-13:40	Buffet Lunch
	LIST OF POSTERS
	POSTER SESSIONS on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday
-	PARTICLE SIZE EFFECTS AND CHARACTERISATION ACROSS DIVERSE MATERIALS
	P/1) PRIMARY FRACTURE CHARACTERIZATION BY IMPACT ON COPPER ORE SPECIMENS USING COMPACT INSTRUMENTATION AS AN ALTERNATIVE FOR INSTRUMENTS BASED ON WAVE PROPAGATION IN A LONG ROD
	Mella S. Gonzalo, Lopez Flores Emilio, G. Rodríguez Cristian, Cid T. Constanza, Moncada M. Manuel
	P/2) COMPARISON OF INDUSTRIAL AND LABORATORY GRINDING SPECIFIC ENERGIES IN MAGNETITE ORE PROCESSING USING DONDA’S APPROACH
	Bottosso Nubia, Mesquita Josué, Turrer Henrique, Yevtekhov Volodymyr
	P/3) EFFECT OF PARTICLE SIZE AND PROCESSING CONDITIONS ON THE PRODUCTION OF POWDERED COLLAGEN FROM ARAPAIMA GIGAS SCALES AND ITS APPLICATION IN FUNCTIONAL PRODUCTS
	Davila Ruiz Berita, Moreno Rios Christiaan, Güere Salazar Fiorella, Santos Tello William, Ruiz De La Cruz Jhonn, Flores Cabrera De Ruiz Kathy, Onate Trigozo Luis Angel, Caldas Garnique Vanessa
	P/4) OPTIMIZATION OF CELLULAR DISINTEGRATION AND PARTICLE SIZE OF MUSA PARADISIACA RACHIS FOR ECOLOGICAL PAPER PRODUCTION
	Davila Ruiz Berita, Moreno Rios Christiaan, Güere Salazar Fiorella, Santos Tello William, Ruiz De La Cruz Jhonn, Flores Cabrera De Ruiz Kathy, Onate Trigozo Luis Angel, Caldas Garnique Vanessa
	P/5) KINETICS AND ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS OF PB (II) IN SOILS USING ZERO-VALENT IRON NANOPARTICLES FUNCTIONALIZED WITH QUINOA RESIDUAL BIOMASS
	Mullisaca Contreras Eliana, Fernandez Ochoa Benito, Cisneros Tejeira Maximo, Güere Salazar Fiorella, Santos Tello William, Morales Marcavillaca Luis, Pandia Rojas Pedro, Obispo Gavino Jhon Herbert
	P/6) PRESSURE OXIDATION OF REFRACTORY TAILINGS IN AN AUTOCLAVE FOR GOLD RECOVERY OPTIMIZATION
	Cisneros Tejeira Maximo, Santos Bazo Juan, Gonzalo A. Azurza Manrique, Altamirano Puitiza Omar F., Minaya Huaman Raúl, Güere Salazar Fiorella, Mullisaca Contreras Eliana, Santos Tello William
	P/7) OPTIMIZATION OF HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS OF LANTHANUM-COBALT PEROVSKITE (LACOO3): INFLUENCE OF PH, STOICHIOMETRY, AND SINTERING TEMPERATURE
	Bednarikova Vendula, Remesova Michaela, Tkachenko Serhii, Vrankic Martina, Celko Ladislav
	P/8) THE ROLE OF POWDER SIZE DISTRIBUTION ON THE FLOWABILITY OF CERAMIC THERMAL SPRAY POWDERS
	Remesova Michaela, Hebenstreit Christian, Tkachenko Serhii, Korner Karl, Bednarikova Vendula, Trache Richard, Celko Ladislav
	P/9) RECYCLING OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES – THE UPRAISE PROJECT
	Klein-Punt Franziska, Zetzener Harald, Kwade Arno