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Nordic Rheology Conference 2008

The 17th Nordic Rheology Conference was held in Copenhagen August 27-29, 2008.

Scope and Theme

This year the theme of the conference was be Food Rheology. 

Venue

The conference was held at the Institute of Life Sciences at Copenhagen University.

Invited speakers  

There were four plenary lectures given by renowned scientists at the conference:

  • Professor Allen Foegeding, North Carolina University, USA. Macromolecular (Protein and hydrocolloid) functionality in food.

  • Professor Ian Norton, University of Birmingham, UK. Microstructural engineering with colloids and interfaces . 

  • Professor Eric Dickinson, University of Leeds, UK. Emulsions and Food Colloids . 

Conference programme

PDF-version of the conference programme

 

 

Wednesday 27August

NRS Course

10

Registration, welcome  and coffee

10.30

The Basics Part 1: Viscometry – what does it do and what’s it good for in food science and industry? Richard Ipsen, Department of Food Science, LIFE

11.15

The Basics Part 2: Oscillation – what does it do and what’s it good for in food science and industry? Anders Karlsson, Department of Food Science, LIFE

12

Lunch

13

Sensory texture based on rheological and fracture properties
Professor Allen Foegeding, North Carolina University, USA

13.45

Use of rheology in industry 1
Heidi Nielsen, CP Kelco, Lille Skensved, Denmark

14.15

Break, Coffee

14.45

Stabilizing Role of Biopolymers in Food Emulsions
Professor Eric Dickinson, University of Leeds, UK

15.30

Use of rheology in industry 2
Henrik Kragh, Danisco A/S, Brabrand, Denmark)

16

Summary, discussion

 

 

18-20

Get-together, with light dinner and beer
Includes an informative talk on beer and its manufacture (with samples) by Henrik Siegumfeldt, Department of Food Science, LIFE

 

Thursday 28 August

8-9

Registration and coffee

9

Welcome and opening

9.15

1st invited speaker Allen Foegeding: Sensory texture based on rheological and fracture properties:  applications in model foods and cheese

10

NRS annual general meeting

11

Coffee

11.30

Session 1: General food rheology

 

R. Ipsen
Food rheology: A personal view of the past and future

 

P. Heyer, J. Läuger
Interfacial Shear Rheology of Films formed by Coffee

 

G. Arnold, Y. Schneider,  H. Rohm
Impact of Constituent Interactions on the Rheology of Lipophilic Food Suspensions

12.30

Lunch

13.30

Session 2: Rheology and sensory perception

 

A.-L. Gady,  J. Hort, A. J. Taylor, B. Wolf
Investigating the effect of the rheology of thickened solutions on salt perception

 

E. O. Rukke, X. Fernandez, R. B. Schüller
Comparing rheological properties in fatty liver from duck and goose by oscillatory plate-plate rheometer measurements.

 

C. Zhang, J. Stokes, A. Taylor
Effect of high shear rheology on flavour perception

14.30

Session 3: Rheology of food hydrocolloids

 

T. Tipvarakarnkoon, B. Senge
Rheological behaviour of gum solutions and their interactions after mixing

 

H. Larsson
The rheological behavior of weak gels made of CMC and salt

  Y. Dong, T. Foster, R. Harris, J. Mitchell, B. Wolf
A rheological study to analyse the mixed gelation of a protein with a polysaccharide

15.30

Poster session / coffee

16.30

Dept for boat (bus)

18.30

Dinner at Middelgrunden

 

 

Friday 29 August

8.30

Registration desk open - coffee

9-9

2nd invited speaker Ian Norton: Rheological control and understanding necessary to formulate healthy everyday foods
I.T. Norton, F. Spyropoulos and P.W. Cox

9.45

Session 4: Rheology of dairy products

 

D. Jaros, M. Jacob, H. Rohm
Trying to Better Understand the Rheological Behavior of Acid Gels from Various Dairy-based Substrates Treated with Microbial Transglutaminase

 

A.O. Karlsson and C. Hauert 
Textural design of cheese for melting applications by exchanging the type of fat

  T. Janhoej, C.M. Andersen, N. Viereck, R. Ipsen
Spectroscopic prediction of rheological properties of stirred yoghurt

 

K. Oldörp
Universal Rheology for Food

11.05

Coffee

11.30

Session 5: Rheology of particles and suspensions

 

S. Kubens, H. Peng, S. Oesterheld, O. H. Wallevik
Effect of silica fume on rheology of mortar

 

P. Szabo, R. Hansen
Viscosity of Suspensions and Finite Size Effects

  K. Nevalainen, C. Hintze, R. Suihkonen, P. Eteläaho, J. Vuorinen, P. Järvelä, and N. Isomäki
Rheological properties of melt-compounded and diluted nanocomposites of atomic-layer-deposition -coated polyamide particles

12.30

Lunch

13.45

Poster session and coffee

14.15

3rd invited speaker Eric Dickinson: Protein-Stabilized Emulsions and Whipped Emulsions: Aggregation and Rheological Aspects

15.00

Session 6: Rheology and health

 

M. Stading, D. Johansson
Rheological properties of food for people suffering from swallowing disorders

 

T.B. Goudoulas, E.G.Kastrinakis, S.G. Nychas, L.G. Papazoglou, G.M. Kazakos, P.V. Kosmas
Rheological Study of Healthy and Pathological Synovial Fluid after Surgery for Repair of Rupture of the Cranial Cruciate Ligament of Dogs

 

U. Björkman
On Metzner’s method for generalised Newtonian flows

16.00

Closing

 

Organizing committee 

  Previous conferences

NRC 2007, Stavanger
NRC 2006, Stockholm

NRC 2005, Tampere
NRC 2004, Reykjavik
NRC 2003, Tórshavn
NRC 2002, Göteborg
NRC 2001, Trondheim
NRC 2000, Helsinki
NRC 1999, Copenhagen
NRC 1998, Lund
NRC 1997, Reykjavik

List of invited speakers 1992-2008