U.S.-Venezuela: Planning Visit

美国-委内瑞拉：计划访问

• 批准号: 0418728
• 负责人: Ronald Neuman
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Auburn University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-06-01 至 2007-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0418728&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Venezuela; Planning; Visit

In this U.S.-Venezuela planning visit supported by the Americas Program of the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Interfacial, Transport and Thermodynamic Processing Program of the Division of Chemical and Transport Systems, Ronald Neuman of Auburn University will travel to two institutions in Venezuela, the Universidad Simon Bolivar (USB) in Caracas, and the Universidad de Los Andes (ULA) in Merida. The purpose of these visits is to plan new research collaborative projects with Professor Erich A. Muller at USB and Professor Jean-Louis Salager at ULA. The proposed research projects will investigate interfacial phenomena in complex fluid (liquid/liquid) systems and reflect the complementary expertise of the collaborators involved. The collaborative project with USB will employ recent advances in molecular simulation and parallel computer processing to investigate the liquid/liquid extraction of metals from aqueous to nonpolar organic phases. The proposed project with ULA will investigate complex crude oil emulsions stabilized by solid particles to obtain fundamental knowledge that will be applied to develop new remediation and pollution cleanup methods.The proposed research has the potential for the development of an environmentally clean method to remove oil spills from coastal beaches and obtain a clean oil product that can be recycled back into petroleum refining operations. The proposed activities involve the exchange of graduate students and undergraduate students, who will thus have first-hand experience with international collaborations.

在美国国际科学与工程办公室的美洲项目和化学与运输系统部门的界面、传输和热力学处理项目的支持下，奥本大学的罗纳德·纽曼将访问委内瑞拉的两个机构，加拉加斯的西蒙玻利瓦尔大学（USB）和梅里达的洛斯安第斯大学（ULA）。这些访问的目的是与USB教授Erich A. Muller和ULA教授Jean-Louis Salager计划新的研究合作项目。拟议的研究项目将调查复杂流体（液/液）系统中的界面现象，并反映所涉及的合作者的互补专业知识。与USB的合作项目将采用分子模拟和并行计算机处理的最新进展来研究从水相到非极性有机相中金属的液/液萃取。与ULA拟议的项目将研究由固体颗粒稳定的复杂原油乳状液，以获得将用于开发新的修复和污染清理方法的基础知识。拟议的研究有可能开发出一种环境清洁的方法，以清除沿海海滩上的石油泄漏，并获得一种清洁的石油产品，这种石油产品可以再循环到石油炼制作业中。拟议的活动涉及研究生和本科生的交换，因此他们将获得国际合作的第一手经验。