Preface
The  European  Summer  School  in  High  Pressure  Technology  (ESS-HPT)  is  the  continuation of many years of high pressure intensive course. The history of this very successful  series  of  courses  started  in  1995,  when  the  first  intensive  course  took  place  in  Monselice,  Italy.  Most  of  these  Intensive  Courses  were  supported  by  SOCRATES and later Life Long Learning, as shown in following overview:
SOCRATES IP „Current Trends in High Pressure Technology and Chemical Engineering 1995 Monselice / Italy 1996 Nancy / France 1997 Erlangen / Germany
SOCRATES IP „High Pressure Technology in Process and Chemical Engineering“ 1999 Abano Terme / Italy 2000 Valladolid / Spain 2001 Maribor / Slovenia and Graz / Austria
SOCRATES IP „High Pressure Chemical Engineering Processes: Basics and Applications“ 2002 Graz / Austria and Maribor / Slovenia 2003 Budapest / Hungary 2004 Barcelona / Spain
SOCRATES IP „Basics, Developments, Research and Industrial Applications in High Pressure Chemical Engineering Processes 2005 Prague / Czech Republic 2006 Lisbon / Portugal 2007 Albi / France Life Long Learning IP „SCF- GSCE: Supercritical Fluids – Green Solvents in Chemical Engineering 2008 Thessaloniki / Greece 2009 Istanbul / Turkey 2010 Budapest / Hungary
EFCE Intensive Course „High Pressure Technology – From Basics to Industrial Applications“ 2011 Belgrade / Serbia
Life Long Learning IP „PIHPT: Process Intensification by High Pressure Technologies – Actual Strategies for Energy and Resources Conservation 2012 Maribor / Slovenia and Graz / Austria 2013 Darmstadt / Germany 2014 Glasgow / Great Britain
Unfortunately  these  Intensive  Programmes  were  cancelled  within  ERASMUS+.  The  EFCE Working Party „High Pressure Technology“ decided in September 2014 to go on with this course in the form of a Summer School.  The ESS-HPT will take place every year within the first 2 weeks of July at University of Maribor, Slovenia and Graz University of Technology, Austria. All  participants  have  to  give  an  oral  presentation  and  the  abstracts  of  these  presentations, which are peer-reviewed by the EFCE WP Members, are published in this book of abstract.
The editor Thomas Gamse Organiser of ESS-HPT 2015