International Conference on Separation Technology to be Held in Davos, Switzerland, May 15-19, 1989

这项提案是为参加由工程基金会赞助的“第三届国际分离技术会议”的与会者提供旅费补贴。关于这个主题的第二次会议是由工程基金会在1987年赞助的。欧洲工人在这一重要技术领域取得进步的速度至少与美国工人一样快；因此，通过让美国接触到欧洲的工作，美国社区可以更快地从中受益。分离技术对一些新兴工程技术的商业化至关重要，生物技术是其中最引人注目的。几个欧洲国家已经在这些领域做出了重大的研究努力，并且在大规模生物分离技术的商业化和商业化超临界萃取工艺方面略领先于美国。欧洲工人最近在蒸馏技术和填料床逆流吸收方面也有重要的创新。他们也在先进的膜技术方面做出了重大努力。美国社会应该从更广泛地接触他们的作品中受益匪浅。

This proposal is for travel subsidies for attendees at the "Third International Conference on Separations Technology," sponsored by the Engineering Foundation. The second conference on this topic was sponsored by the Engineering Foundation in 1987. European workers are making progress in this important area of technology at least as fast as are US workers; thus, by exposing the US to the European work, the US community can benefit from it more quickly. Separations technologies are critical to the commercialization of several emerging engineering technologies, biotechnology being the most notable. Several European countries have made significant research efforts in these areas, and are somewhat ahead of the US community in the commercialization of large scale bioseparations technology and in commercial supercritical extraction processes. European workers have also made recent important innovations in distillation technology and countercurrent absorption in packed bed. They are making major efforts in advanced membrane technology as well. The US community should benefit greatly from more extensive exposure to their work.