Engineering Foundation Conference on "Emerging Separation Technologies for Metals and Fuels"

该奖项为与学术界、工业界和国家实验室的代表举行的一次会议提供支持，以审查采矿、矿产和燃料行业的新分离程序。该计划涵盖了从膜和溶剂提取到基于分子识别或生物技术的分离方法的广泛范围。这次会议将有助于提高美国公司的全球竞争力，而且与当前的重点是更新工业和民用基础设施是及时的。通过解决环境过程中的问题，预计将产生广泛的影响，可能使几个工业部门和普通公众受益。

This award provides support for a conference with representatives from academia, industry and national laboratories to examine emerging separations processes for the mining, minerals and fuels industries. The program encompasses a wide spectrum of approaches from membranes and solvent extraction to separation methods based on molecular recognition or biotechnology. The meeting will help to make American firms more globally competitive and is timely with the present focus on renewing the industrial and civil infrastructure. Broad impact is expected with potential benefit to several industrial sectors and the general public through addressing environmental processin problems.