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The 16th International Drying Symposium (IDS 2008) was held in Hyderabad, India during November, 2008. This event was a part of widely acclaimed global scale International Drying Symposium (IDS) series founded by Professor Arun S. Mujumdar at McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1978. IDS provided a forum to exchange knowledge and latest R & D results across geographical and industrial sectorial boundaries. The objective was to foster industry-academia interaction on world wide scale. The event had been organized by "World Forum for Crystallization, Filtration and Drying" (WFCFD) and Department of Chemical Engineering, University Institute of Chemical Technology (UICT), Mumbai. The motivation behind attending IDS was to exchange information and knowledge in the area of Drying Technology on International as well as National level. An important objective of International Drying Symposium was to provide a suitable forum for presentation and exchange of ideas on the latest developments in drying technology and to disseminate relevant information among drying professionals all over the world. This event brought together the stalwarts’ and the new comers alike in the area of drying technology. The IDS series attracted scientists, researchers and engineers from all branches of Engineering and Technology due to the fact that Drying was an omnipresent unit operation required in every field of operation be it food, agriculture, chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology or nanotechnology. Several prizes were distributed at this event and was deemed to be the largest event in the history of IDS. An exhibition of industrial drying/dewatering and solid/liquid separation equipment was also held in conjunction with this symposium. The main theme for IDS 2008 was "Research and Development and Opportunities in Drying".

Contribution to the following areas was presented at IDS 2008: