Prof. Gülhan Özbayoğlu (PhD) Will Take the Chair in the XVIIth International Coal Preparation Congress
23.09.2013

The XVII^th International Coal Preparation Congress (ICPC) will be held between October 1-6, 2013 at the Grand Cevahir Hotel and Congress Center in Istanbul under the patronage of Mr. Taner Yıldız, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources. In the Congress, the Technical Program will run in two parallel plenary sessions and poster sessions. Furthermore, the recent advances and developments in coal preparation and quality improvement technologies will be discussed. An exhibition titled ICPC 2013 EXPO, where equipment manufacturers, material and service suppliers from around the world will be able to display their products and services, will also be held concurrently with the Congress. The official language of the Congress will be English, however oral presentations will be simultaneously interpreted into Turkish.

The organization of International Coal Preparation Congress (ICPC), which has been organized every four years since 1950, is carried out by the International Organizing Committee (IOC) composed of 12 full members. Countries represented in the International Organizing Committee (IOC) are Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Poland, Russia, The People’s Republic of China (PRC), The Republic of South Africa, The United Kingdom, The United States of America, Turkey and Ukraine. Greece, Hungary, Slovakia and The Czech Republic are candidate countries. The XVII^th International Coal Preparation Congress will be organized for the first time in Turkey since her accession to the IOC membership in 1998. Turkey’s IOC member Prof. Gülhan Özbayoğlu (PhD), Dean of Engineering Faculty will chair both the IOC and the XVII^th International Coal Preparation Congress. Prof. Ali İhsan Arol (PhD), Head of Department of Mining Engineering will be the technical secretary.

185 abstracts, 130 of which were deemed suitable for oral presentations, were sent from 26 different countries from all over the world to the XVII^th ICPC. A very rich programme encompassing sight-seeing tours to historical sites and tourist attractions in different parts of Istanbul and Turkey and technical tours to coal preparation facilities will be organized both for participants and their companies.

Prof. Gülhan Özbayoğlu (PhD), as the chairperson of both the XVII^th ICPC and the IOC is inviting you to the XVII^th International Coal Preparation Congress to be held in Istanbul, the city on two continents to meet the professionals of coal preparation coming from all around the world.

Please visit www.icpc2013.com for more information about the XVII^th ICPC.