Conference Description
It is now generally recognized that the world's population is expanding towards 10 billion people, and that there are rising expectations for a higher standard of living for many in the developing world. It will be a formidable task to supply the energy, water, and chemical/biochemical products needed to achieve a higher standard of living for so many people. To do so in a sustainable and environmentally responsible manner provides even greater challenges. Separations science and technology will be one of the central components of a successful outcome.

The goal of this conference is to provide a forum for recent advances in developing solutions to these problems. Presentations will be sought that cover the spectrum from fundamentals to specific applications. Applications will include but are not limited to: new or improved separation technologies for gas-to-liquid fuels, biofuels, and shale oil processing, carbon capture, upgrading water to drinking quality, cleaning up process water used in oil shale or other fossil fuel or biofuel production processes, new separation challenges in large-scale, lower-cost production of chemical/biochemical products, etc.

Fundamental scientific issues will concern new and novel materials for membrane, adsorption and other separation technologies; fundamental advances in understanding and predicting the kinetics of rate processes; improved property prediction and structure-property relations, etc. Fundamental engineering issues will also be included, such as advances in process intensification and green engineering.

The program will consist of invited and solicited oral presentations and poster sessions. The sessions will be structured to provide integrated coverage of both fundamental and applied topics with a view to exposing specific problems and general solution approaches.

Conference Chair: Michael F. Doherty, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara (USA). mfd@engineering.ucsb.edu

Organizing Committee: Professor T. Alan Hatton, MIT (USA). tahatton@mit.edu; Dr. Jose Bravo, Chief Scientist, Shell Global Solutions (USA). J.Bravo@shell.com; Professor Marco Mazzotti, ETH Zurich (Switzerland). marco.mazzotti@ipe.mavt.ethz.ch; Professor Richard D. Noble, University of Colorado (USA). nobler@colorado.edu; Professor Guangsheng Luo, Tsinghua University (China); gsluo@tsinghua.edu.cn. Professor A. B. Pandit, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai (India). abp@udct.org

Engineering Conferences International
Engineering Conferences International (ECI) is a not-for-profit global engineering conferences program, originally established in 1962, that provides opportunities for the exploration of problems and issues of concern to engineers and scientists from many disciplines.

The format of the conference provides morning and late afternoon or evening sessions in which major presentations are made. Poster sessions will be scheduled for discussion as well. Available time is included during the afternoons for ad hoc meetings, informal discussions, and/or personal communications. This format is designed to enhance rapport among participants and promote dialogue on the development of the meeting. We believe the conferences have been instrumental in generating ideas and disseminating information to a greater extent than is possible through more conventional forums.

All participants are expected both to attend the entire conference and to contribute actively to the discussions. The recording of lectures and presentations is forbidden. As ECI conferences take place in an informal atmosphere, casual clothing is the usual attire.

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