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Announcement: A. V. Luikov Award for Scientific Achievements on Drying Theory and Practice

The professional achievements of Dr. Tadeusz Kudra have been recognized by the Belarusian Academy of Sciences through the A. V. Luikov Award for his lifetime research on ‘‘Energy and Resource Saving Drying Technologies: Theory and Practice.’’ Professor Aleksey Vassillevich Luikov, born on September 20, 1910, in the city of Kostroma (Russia), was a renowned Russian scientist who pioneered research in the fields of thermophysics and heat and mass transfer. As early as 1932–1935, he discovered the effect of increasing evaporation surface depth during the drying of solids, and the phenomena of thermal diffusion of moisture in capillary-porous bodies (the so-called ‘‘Luikov effect’’). The most significant books he authored are Kinetics and Dynamics of Drying (1938 in Russian), Heat Conduction and Diffusion (1941 in Russian), and Heat and Mass Transfer in Capillary-Porous Bodies (published in English by Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK, 1966, 523 pp.). Professor Luikov developed the theory of simultaneous heat and mass transfer based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics, which led to the set of coupled equations describing mass transfer in wet capillary=porous=colloidal systems through gradients of moisture content and temperature. His approach to drying theory was then followed by other scientists, including S. Whitaker, who published a fundamental paper on ‘‘Heat and Mass Transfer in Granular Porous Media’’ (In Advances in Drying, edited by A. S. Mujumdar, 1980, Vol. 1., pp. 23–61). To commemorate Professor Luikov, the Heat and Mass Transfer Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is awarding scientists who work on various aspects of heat and mass transfer phenomena. This award is presented as both a diploma and medal at the Minsk International Heat and Mass Transfer Forum, organized since 1998 every four years by the A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute in Minsk, Belarus. Recently, the International Award Committee acknowledged the collective contribution to drying theory and practice by Professor Stanislaw P. Rudobashta from the National Agricultural University in Moscow (Russia), Professor Yurii Snezkin from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev (Ukraine), and Dr. Tadeusz Kudra from CanmetENERGY of Natural Resources Canada (Quebec, Canada). The following contributions of Dr. Kudra to drying techniques and technology have been recognized by the awarding committee: