Hygienic Study Award 2012 goes to Cambridge and Dresden researchers

FRANKFURT –  Since 2009, the communication and information platform Hygienic Processing and its partners have held the competition for the annual Hygienic-Study-Award to honor outstanding, innovative, high-quality studies, diploma, bachelor's and master's theses in the field of hygienic design. In 2012, the Hygienic-Study-Award went international to strengthen the network of international institutions involved in academic education and research in the field of hygienic design. Fifteen renowned research institutes and universities from eleven countries were invited to partake in the competition. Seven abstracts from five countries were submitted.

At the awards ceremony of Hygienic Study Award 2012 hosted by EHEDG World Congress 2012 in Valencia, two young researchers from Cambridge and Dresden universities who are sponsored by  won the first and second prizes.

Two received first prize, namely Hannes Stoye, Technische Universitaet Dresden, for his diploma thesis ‘Development of a test set-up for pulsed spray cleaning examinations.’ The other went to Dr Patrick Gordon, University of Cambridge, for his doctoral thesis ‘Development of a scanning fluid dynamic gauge for cleaning studies.’

A second prize was awarded to Dr- Ing. Martin Schoeler, former PhD student of Technische Universitaet Dresden for his doctoral thesis ‘Analysis of cleaning procedures for complex geometries in in immerced systems’.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens-Peter Majschak from the Technische Univeritaet Dresden held the laudation expressing his appreciation of the high quality of the submitted research work.

Interested in taking part in the Hygienic Study Award 2013?
The next award ceremony will be hosted by drinktec 2013 in Munich. Interested research and university institutes are requested to contact Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens-Peter Majschak, TU Dresden (jens-peter.majschak@tu-dresden.deJunior