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Polymer Reaction Engineering VIII
An ECI Conference Series

May 6-11, 2012
Cancun, Mexico

About This Conference

Engineering Conferences International, in technical co-sponsorship with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Mexican Polymer Society, is sponsoring the eighth conference in the series on "Polymer Reaction Engineering." The conference will take place May 6-11, 2012 at the Gran Melia Hotel in Cancun, Mexico.

This conference provides a forum for presentation of emerging technologies and scientific advancements in the area of polymer reaction engineering. The speakers and attendees come from several sectors of academia and industry or other research organizations. This format has been adopted for the last seven PRE conferences and found to be very successful.

The Program chair is Professor Marc A. Dubé (University of Ottawa, Canada); co-chairs are Dr. Marco Villalobos (Cabot Corp., USA) and Professor Eduardo Vivaldo-Lima (UNAM, Mexico).

The scientific committee includes Professors Reinaldo Giudici (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Joserra Leiza (The University of the Basque Country, Spain), and Milan Maric (McGill University, Canada), and Drs. Klaus-Dieter Hungenberg (BASF, Germany), Helmut Meyer (Bayer, Germany), and Dean Millar (Dow Chemical, USA).

Conference Plenary Lecture
The conference plenary speaker will be: Dr. Jesús Álvarez-Calderón, Professor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Plantel Iztapalapa (UAM-I), Mexico City, Mexico. National Researcher, Level III, Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (S.N.I.), México.S.N.I. Director, CONACYT, México

Technical Sessions
The technical sessions are scheduled on the following topics:

  1. New Trends in Polymer Reaction Engineering
    2. Session co-chairs: Dr. Philipp Mueller (Dupont, USA), Prof. Giuseppe Storti (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
    a. Nano-materials, nanocomposites and thin films
    b. Controlled radical polymerization
    c. Reactive processing and modification
    d. Biomedical applications
    e. Applications of enabling additives
    f. Polymerization on demand - triggered initiation, encapsulated initiators

  2. Polymer Process Monitoring, Control and Simulation
    3.  Session co-chairs: Dr. Klaus-Dieter Hungenberg (BASF, Germany), Prof. Alexander Penlidis (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada)
    a. Sensors and polymer characterization
    b. Structure-property-performance relationships
    c. Process monitoring and control
    d. New modeling approaches
    e. Modeling of film formation dynamics
    f. Modeling of polycondensation-solid state polymerization
    g. Measurement and estimation of rate coefficients
    h. Molecular modeling and PRE
    i. On-line applications of models for process observation and control

  3. Sustainable Polymer Reaction Engineering
    4. Session co-chairs: Dr. John Eng (DuPont, USA), Prof. Michael Cunningham (Queen’s Univ., Canada)
    a. Polymers from biological sources
    b. Polymers from renewable sources
    c. Degradable polymers
    d. Life cycle assessment of polymerization processes
    e. Processes in environmentally benign solvents (CO2, ionic liquids, aqueous phase)
    f. Recycling
    g. Process Intensification
    h. Solvent-free processes

  4. Industrial Process Innovation in Polymer Reaction Engineering
    5. Session chair: Dr. Min Zhang (Dow Chemical, USA)
    a. Polyolefins - new catalysts and new approaches
    b. Polycondensation
    c. Mixing and scale-up (including CFD analysis)
    d. High throughput systems
    e. Micro/millireactor technology
    f. Smart scale processes - Economic processes for small capacities
    g. New approaches to industrial/academia interactions, success examples, and upcoming opportunities

  5. Novel Polymer Applications
    6. Session co-chairs: Dr. Oihana Elizalde (BASF, USA), Prof. Tim Bender (Univ. of Toronto, Canada)
    a. Functional polymers
    b. Polymeric membranes
    c. Conductive polymers
    d. Silicon polymers
    e. Boron polymers
    f. "Smart" polymers
    g. Hybrid polymers

  6. Recent Advances in Heterogeneous Polymerization
    7. Session co-chairs: Dr. Isabel Saenz de Buruaga (Comex, Mexico), Prof. Joserra Leiza (Basque University, Spain)
    a. New applications of emulsion and mini-emulsion polymers
    b. Controlled radical polymerization in emulsion polymers
    c. Suspension polymerization
    d. Particle morphology control in heterogeneous polymerization
    e. Synthesis of nanoparticles for biotech applications
    f. Hybrid waterborne dispersions
    g. Precipitation polymerization from batch to continuous processes


    There will be three poster prizes for the best presentations by our "younger scientists" are sponsored by the Macromolecular Journals (Wiley-VCH). Each prize consists of books to a value of 200 Euros and a free 1-year subscription to Macromolecular Reaction Engineering.


    The Poster Sessions co-chairs are Dr. Jon Debling (BASF, USA), Prof. Milan Maric (McGill University, Canada), and Prof. Davide Moscatelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

    Publications
    The meeting notes will include copies of all presentations (short abstract and copies of the slides). The notes will be distributed to all participants.

    As was done in previous PRE conferences, more details will be given later for the deadline for submission of papers of PRE 8, to be peer-reviewed and published together in a separate special issue of Macromol. Symp. (http://www.ms-journal.de). The journal publishes selected contributions from international conferences, symposia and meetings in the field of macromolecular science and related areas of research. All submitted contributions are peer-reviewed to ensure a high quality of published manuscripts. Accepted articles will be typeset and published as a hardcover edition together with online publication at Wiley InterScience, thereby guaranteeing an immediate international dissemination. Macromolecular Symposia is covered in ISI Proceedings as a body of literature distinct from non-proceedings material, where all proceedings publications are covered.

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