Workshop: Fundamentals of Transport, Pollution and Energy Processes

项目标题：研讨会：运输、环境和能源过程基础(CTS-0633780)；新汉普郡大学，达勒姆，这个项目是美国和中国学术化学工程师之间关于运输、环境和能源过程基础主题的研讨会，于2006年8月20至23日在新罕布夏州达勒姆举行。研讨会参与者的主要焦点是与前沿研究领域相关的工程现象，如传质、分离、催化和颗粒力学。联合研究项目最终可能来自于在这个研讨会上建立的专业联系。背景：能源和环境污染是一个全球性问题，最好的解决办法是国际合作。由于污染意识和严格的法律，在过去的30年里，主要污染物的排放量有了相当大的减少。尽管取得了这一进展，美国每年仍有超过1.7亿吨污染物排放到空气中，大约1.33亿人生活在一些县，在这些县，由于六种主要空气污染物(颗粒物、二氧化硫、一氧化碳、二氧化氮、臭氧和碳氢化合物)中至少一种污染物的高水平，空气有时是不健康的。减少美国环境污染只是解决方案的一部分。近年来，发展中国家和发达国家的能源消费都在上升。像中国这样拥有快速增长的化学工业的国家，可能会对我们这个星球未来的环境健康起到决定性的作用。布什总统最近对中国和印度的访问突显了这两个国家在努力减少此类问题方面的重要性。目的：这次在美国华盛顿州达勒姆举行的研讨会的主要目的是交流科学信息，并让美国和中国的大学教职员工就最近主要在上述基础研究领域取得的进展进行对话。另一个目标是灌输这两个国家的教职员工之间的密切合作，特别是初级和少数族裔教职员工，以保持持续的互动和关系，即使研讨会结束后，也要协调我们的努力，探索可能导致全球污染挑战的长期解决方案的基本新概念。这个联合研讨会将提供一个平台，以实现这些信息交流和教师合作的目标，重点可能是这一世界性环境污染的关键问题。智力优势：研讨会将涵盖与交通、环境和能源过程的基本原理相关的各种主题。这些包括传质、分离、催化和颗粒力学。更广泛的影响：这次研讨会的主要影响将是继续努力，在美国的教职员工和中国之间进行合作研发努力，开展由上一次研讨会(2005年在中国举行)开始的基础研究，以实现能源转换和化工生产相关行业的污染防治。此外，中国教职员工未来可能会访问美国大学校园，他们将相互提供信息，并有助于他们了解我们的教学、研究过程和生活方式。这次研讨会还可能为美国和中国学生在联合研究项目上的交流创造机会。

Project Title: Workshop: Fundamentals of Transport, Environmental, and Energy Processes (CTS-0633780); University of New Hampshire, Durham, This project is a workshop between USA and Chinese academic chemical engineers on the overarching topics of fundamentals of transport, environment, and energy processes held in Durham, New Hampshire August 20 to 23, 2006. The main focus of the workshop participants is engineering phenomena such as mass transfer, separations, catalysis and particle mechanics as related to frontier areas of research. Joint research projects may ultimately flow from the professional contacts made at this workshop.Background: Energy and environmental pollution is a global problem and can best be solved with international cooperation. Because of the pollution awareness and strict laws, during the past 30 years, there has been considerable reduction in the emissions of major pollutants. Despite this progress, over 170 million tons of pollutants are emitted into the air each year in the United States, and approximately 133 million people live in counties where monitored air was unhealthy at times because of high levels of at least one of the six principal air pollutants (particulates, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and hydrocarbons). Reducing pollution in the US environment is only part of the solution. During recent years, energy consumption of both developing and developed countries has been on the rise. Countries like China with fast growing chemical-based industries are likely to play a decisive role in the future environmental health of our planet. Recent visits of President Bush to China and India underlines the importance of these two nations in working toward reducing such problems.Objective: The main objective of this workshop to be held in Durham, NH, USA is to have an exchange of scientific information and a dialogue between the American and Chinese university faculty members on recent advances mainly in the above mentioned areas of fundamental research. Another objective is to inculcate a close collaboration between the faculty members particularly junior and minority faculty of these two countries for a sustained interaction and relationship, even after the workshop is over, towards coordinating our efforts to exploring fundamental new concepts that might lead to long term solutions to the global pollution challenges. This joint workshop will provide a platform to achieve these objectives of information exchange and faculty collaborationthat may have a focus on this critical problem of worldwide pollution of the environment.Intellectual Merit: The workshop would cover a variety of topics relevant tofundamentals of transport, environment, and energy processes. These include masstransfer, separations, catalysis, and particle mechanics.Broader Impact: The major impact of this workshop would be to sustain our endeavortowards collaborative R&D effort between faculty members of the USA and China toundertake fundamental research, that was started by the last workshop (held in China in 2005), towards achieving pollution prevention and control in industries involved in energy conversion and chemical production. In addition, a future visits by the Chinese faculty to a US university campus may result, and they would be mutually informative and helpful in their understanding our system of teaching, research process, and way of life. This workshop may also generate an opportunity for the exchange of American and Chinese students to work on joint research projects.