HISTORY OF ESAT

ESAT started, in Berlin (West), in 1974, under the initiative of Professor Helmut Knapp. Since then, ESAT has been hosted, for more than 50 years, by Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western European Countries to represent the diversity and richness of cultures.
ESAT is a European Symposium on Applied Thermodynamics conference. In 2026, Portugal will be honoured to organise ESAT for the third time.

Below is the list of organisers of previous ESAT editions.

Year	Edition	Organizer	City	Country
2026	34^th	University of Porto + NOVA University Lisbon	Lisbon	Portugal
2024	33^rd	University of Edinburgh	Edinburgh	United Kingdom
2022	32^nd	Technical University of Graz	Graz	Austria
2021	31^st	IFP Energies Nouvelles	Paris (online)	France
2018	30^th	The Czech Academy of Sciences	Prague	Czech Republic
2017	29^th	University Politehnica of Bucharest	Bucharest	Romania
2015	28^th	National Technical University of Athens	Athens	Greece
2014	27^th	Eindhoven University of Technology	Eindhoven	The Netherlands
2012	26^th	Technical University of Berlin and DECHEMA	Potsdam	Germany
2011	25^th	Saint Petersburg State University + Russian Academy of Sciences + The Mendeleev Russian Chemical Society	Saint Petersburg	Russia
2009	24^th	University of Santiago de Compostela	Santiago de Compostela	Spain
2008	23^rd	ENSIC-INPL, Nancy	Cannes	France
2006	22^nd	Technical University of Denmark	Elsinore	Denmark
2005	21^st	Warsaw University of Technology	Jurata	Poland
2003	20^th	VDI-GVC + Bayer AG + Technische Universität Kaiserslautern	Lahnstein	Germany
2002	19^th	National Technical University of Athens	Santorini	Greece
2000	18^th	Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague + Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals	Kutna Hora	Czech Republic
1999	17^th	University of Porto + University of Aveiro	Vilamoura	Portugal
1997	16^th	Univ. Metz + ENSIC-INPL	Pont-à-Mousson	France
1996	15^th	ICI, Runcorn	Runcorn	United Kingdom
1994	14^th	National Technical University of Athens	Marathon	Greece
1993	13^th	University of Marseille	Marseille	France
1991	12^th	Technical University of Berlin	Berlin	Germany
1990	11^th	Technical University of Denmark	Rungsted	Denmark
1988	10^th	University of Porto	Ofir	Portugal
1987	9^th	Norsk Hydro, Posgrunn	Bergen	Norway
1985	8^th	University of Trieste	Trieste	Italy
1983	7^th	University of Dortmund	Dortmund	Germany
1982	6^th	Institut Français du Pétrole	Rueil Malmaison	France
1980	5^th	Linde AG	Sachrang	Germany
1979	4^th	Shell	Amsterdam	The Netherlands
1978	3^rd	Technical University of Denmark	Lyngby	Denmark
1976	2^nd	Technical University of Berlin	Berlin (West)	Germany
1974	1^st	Technical University of Berlin	Berlin (West)	Germany