Section on Separation Technology

Founded in 1953, the EFCE is an association of currently 40 Member Societies in 30 European countries.

Today the EFCE represents more than 100,000 chemical engineers in Europe. With its 20 Working Parties and 6 Sections it covers all areas of Chemical Engineering.

The Separation Technology (SepTech) initiative was launched in 1998. Within a very short time it attracted around 100 experts in separation technology in the widest sense.

From 1 January 1999, SepTech has been operative via internet, uniting to date approximately 140 separation experts all over Europe. The Executive Board of the EFCE decided at their meeting on 19 April 2002 to formalize the group, and develop SepTech into the Federation's first Section.

The objectives of the Separation Technology Group of the EFCE are:

• to create a community of researchers, producers and users of Separation Technologies (distillation, extraction, absorption, membranes, adsorption,...) in Europe

• to provide a forum for the dissemination and exchange of scientific and technological knowledge and ideas relating to all aspects of Separation Processes

• to promote coordinated, multidisciplinary, collaborative research within industry and between industry and academia

• to inform the planners and funders of national and European research programmes of the direction and priorities of future research

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