US-South Africa Workshop: Catalysis Research, Pretoria, South Africa, June 2000

该奖项支持12名美国科学家和工程师参加定于2000年6月在南非比勒陀利亚举行的美国-南非催化研究研讨会。组织者是西北大学化学工程系Harold H.Kung、约翰内斯堡威特沃特斯兰德大学化学系Neil Coville和南非开普敦大学工程与建筑环境学院院长Cyril O‘Connor。讲习班将侧重于技术讨论，以确定潜在的合作研究项目。来自两国的参与者将来自学术界、政府和工业界。研讨会的三个主要主题是选择性氧化催化、沸石合成和分析以及负载型金属催化剂。催化在世界各地的化学制造和能源转换行业中发挥着核心作用。催化也发现了越来越多的应用来改善环境质量。尽管美国、欧洲和日本的研究人员之间有许多正在进行的合作，但与非洲的合作相对较少。催化领域特别适合美国和南非的合作。在一些精选的多相催化技术中，南非处于世界领先地位。南非拥有唯一的工业规模的费托工艺。美国和南非研究人员之间的进一步合作活动预计将在这次研讨会上产生。该奖项由国际项目部和化学与运输系统部共同支持。

INT-0080301Harold KungThis award supports the participation of 12 US scientists and engineers in a US-South Africa Workshop on Catalysis Research, scheduled for June 2000 in Pretoria, South Africa. The organizers are Harold H. Kung, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, Neil Coville, Department of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Cyril O'Connor, Dean of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Cape Town, South Africa. The workshop will focus on technical discussions in order to identify potential collaborative research projects. Participants from both countries will be drawn from academia, government, and industry. The three primary themes of the workshop are selective oxidation catalysis, zeolite synthesis and analysis, and supported metal catalysis.Catalysis plays a central role in chemical manufacturing and energy conversion industries throughout the world. Catalysis has also found increasing applications to improve environmental quality. Although there are numerous ongoing collaborations between researchers in the United States and Europe and Japan, relatively few exist with Africa. The area of catalysis is particularly appropriate for US-South African collaboration. In some selected heterogeneous catalytic technologies, South Africa is a world leader. South Africa has the only industrial-scale Fischer-Tropsch process. Further collaborative activity among US and South African researchers is expected to result from this workshop. This award is supported jointly by the Division of International Programs and the Division of Chemical and Transport Systems.