A new edition of the well-known NOSE2026 International Conference on Environmental Monitoring of Odours and VOCs will take place from 6 to 8 July 2026 in Bologna, Italy, hosted at the Royal Hotel Carlton. This event, organised by AIDIC (Italian Association of Chemical Engineering), is the 10th edition of the conference series and presents a key opportunity for industrial and academic experts globally to exchange the latest advances, technologies, and research in odour and volatile organic compounds monitoring and control.
The conference program includes plenary lectures by invited speakers, lecture presentations, and poster sessions. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art developments in environmental odour monitoring and control. The full collection of selected papers will be published in the Chemical Engineering Transactions Journal, indexed by SCOPUS and SCHOLAR, ensuring wide dissemination of the research presented.
The organizing committee of this NOSE2026 is led by Pro. Laura Capelli, Dr Elisa Polvara and Prof. Selena Sironi from Politecnico di Milano, while the scientific committee is chaired by Prof. Selena Sironi. The event builds on the success of previous NOSE conferences and continues to attract leading industrialists and academics worldwide.
Key information:
- Dates: 6-8 July 2026
- Location: Royal Hotel Carlton, Bologna, Italy
- Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2026
The call for abstracts is now open, so if you are interested in participating, you can submit your abstract here. The topics for the posters and lectures are as follows:
1. Odour regulation & relevant standards
- National/international new regulations
- Technical standards and revisions
2. Sources sampling and characterization
- Pre-dilution and sampling
- Sampling hoods
- Area sources
- Fugitive sources
- Optical methods
3. Chemical characterization of odours
- Identification of odorants and odour fingerprint
- New analytical strategies for odour characterization
- Sampling techniques
- Strategies for analytical data interpretation
4. Sensorial measurements
- Dynamic olfactometry
- Enhancing accuracy in sensory panel analysis
- Hedonic tone
- Field inspection
5. Odour & gas sensing
- Instrumental Odour Monitoring Systems IOMS
- Real-time Odour/ pollutant Monitoring
- Performance verification and testing
- Machine learning applied to sensor data
- Novel sensor technologies for pollutant gases and odours
6. Community participation
- Citizen science
- Odour reports
7. Toxicity and health
- Odorants' toxicity
- Risk evaluation for residents and workers exposed to odours
- Odour annoyance and life quality
8. Dispersion modelling
- Odour impact assessment
- Models intercomparison
- Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis
- Peak concentration values
- Model validation
- Inverse dispersion modelling
9. Odour emission control
- Odour abatement technologies and methods
- Operational parameters optimization
- Abatement efficiency
If you want to know more about this conference, visit the official website here.
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