Workshop: Fundamentals of Transport, Pollution and Energy Processes

项目名称：研讨会：交通、环境和能源过程基础（CTS-0633780）；该项目是中美两国学术化学工程师在2006年8月20日至23日在美国新罕布什尔州达勒姆市举行的关于交通、环境和能源过程基本原理的研讨会。研讨会参与者的主要焦点是工程现象，如传质、分离、催化和粒子力学等与前沿研究领域相关的现象。在本次研讨会上建立的专业联系可能最终促成联合研究项目。背景：能源和环境污染是一个全球性问题，最好通过国际合作来解决。由于污染意识和严格的法律，在过去的30年里，主要污染物的排放有了相当大的减少。尽管取得了这些进展，但美国每年仍有1.7亿吨以上的污染物排放到空气中，大约有1.33亿人生活在空气监测不健康的县，因为六种主要空气污染物（微粒、二氧化硫、一氧化碳、二氧化氮、臭氧和碳氢化合物）中至少有一种含量很高。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呈上升趋势。像中国这样拥有快速发展的化学工业的国家很可能在我们星球未来的环境健康中发挥决定性作用。布什总统最近对中国和印度的访问强调了这两个国家努力减少此类问题的重要性。目的：本次研讨会将在美国新罕布什尔州达勒姆市举行，主要目的是在上述基础研究领域进行科学信息交流和中美大学教师之间的对话。另一个目标是在这两个国家的教员之间，特别是初级教员和少数族裔教员之间灌输密切的合作，以便在研讨会结束后保持持续的互动和关系，以协调我们的努力，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。这次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，这些目标可能集中在全球环境污染这一关键问题上。知识价值：研讨会将涵盖与交通、环境和能源过程基础相关的各种主题。这些包括传质、分离、催化和粒子力学。更广泛的影响：本次研讨会的主要影响将是继续我们的努力，在中美教师之间开展合作研发工作，开展基础研究，这是上一次研讨会（2005年在中国举行）开始的，旨在实现能源转换和化工生产行业的污染防治。此外，未来中国教师可能会访问美国大学校园，他们将在了解我们的教学体系、研究过程和生活方式方面相互提供信息和帮助。该研讨会还可能为中美学生交换从事联合研究项目提供机会。

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.