Emerging Issues in National Energy and Environmental Security: Research Opportunities and Challenges for Chemical Engineers

国家能源与环境安全新问题：化学工程师的研究机遇与挑战

• 批准号: 0955812
• 负责人: Virendra Mathur
• 金额: $ 9.64万
• 依托单位: University of New Hampshire
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0955812&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Emerging; Issues; National; Energy; Environmental

0955812MathurThe award is a group travel project for U.S. participants to attend a four day Workshop on Emerging Issues in National Energy and Environmental Security: Research Opportunities and Challenges for Chemical Engineers. The location would be: Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India on January 4-6, 2010.A workshop is planned between the US and Indian chemical engineering faculty members is proposed on the overarching topics of fundamentals of transport, environment, and energy processes as related to science, technology and sustainability. The phenomena of interfacial processes, thermodynamics, mass transfer, separations, catalysis, combustion, and particle mechanics, energy and environmental sustainability are the main focus of the workshop approaches. The US co-PI will be Dr Daniela Mainardi, of Louisiana Technical University. The Indian coordinator will be Dr S. Basu, Professor, IIT, New Delhi. The proposal also includes post workshop follow-up visits by a few specially selected US participants to visit the research laboratories of the Indian faculty to establish in depth scientific interaction. The main objective of this workshop is to have an exchange of scientific information and a dialogue between the American and Indian university faculty members on recent advances mainly in the above mentioned areas of fundamental research. It is planned and hoped that this contact will lead to bi-national research collaborations. Another goal is also to inculcate a close long-term collaboration between the faculty members particularly junior and minority faculty of these two countries for a sustained interaction and relationship. This effort of exploring fundamental new concepts that might lead to long-term solutions to the global energy and pollution challenges is to continue even after the workshop is over. This joint workshop will provide a platform to achieve these objectives of information exchange and faculty research collaboration that may also have a focus on these critical problems across the world. Intellectual Merit: The workshop would cover a variety of topics relevant to fundamentals of transport, environment, and energy processes. These include interfacial processes, thermodynamics, mass transfer, separations, catalysis, combustion and particle mechanics, energy and environmental sustainability. U.S. researchers in these areas will be invited who will match the interests of Indian researchers. Broader Impact: The major impact of this workshop would be to sustain our endeavor towards collaborative R&D effort between faculty members of the USA and India to undertake fundamental research towards energy production and achieving pollution prevention and control in industries involved in energy conversion and chemical production. For example, new joint discoveries in the field of carbon dioxide sequestration and fuel cells for vehicular transportation could limit global warming faced by both nations as well as the entire World. Participation of young and under represented faculty will be especially encouraged.

0955812Mathur该奖项是一个团体旅行项目，供美国参与者参加为期四天的国家能源和环境安全新问题研讨会：化学工程师的研究机遇和挑战。 地点是：印度理工学院，新德里，印度于2010年1月4日至6日。美国和印度化学工程教师之间的研讨会计划提出的运输，环境和能源过程的基础知识的科学，技术和可持续性的总体主题。界面过程、热力学、传质、分离、催化、燃烧和粒子力学、能源和环境可持续性等现象是讲习班方法的主要重点。美国合作PI将是路易斯安那理工大学的Daniela Mainardi博士。印度协调员将是S博士。Basu，教授，印度理工学院，新德里。该建议还包括由一些特别挑选的美国参与者在讲习班后进行后续访问，访问印度学院的研究实验室，以建立深入的科学互动。这次讲习班的主要目的是在美国和印度大学教员之间就主要在上述基础研究领域的最新进展交流科学信息和进行对话。计划并希望这种接触将导致两国的研究合作。另一个目标也是在这两个国家的教师，特别是初级和少数族裔教师之间建立密切的长期合作，以实现持续的互动和关系。即使在讲习班结束后，仍将继续努力探索可能导致长期解决全球能源和污染挑战的根本性新概念。这次联合研讨会将提供一个平台，以实现这些目标的信息交流和教师的研究合作，也可能有一个重点放在这些关键问题在世界各地。知识价值：讲习班将涵盖与运输、环境和能源过程的基本原理有关的各种专题。这些包括界面过程，热力学，传质，分离，催化，燃烧和颗粒力学，能源和环境的可持续性。这些领域的美国研究人员将受到邀请，他们将符合印度研究人员的兴趣。更广泛的影响：这次研讨会的主要影响将是继续我们的奋进，对美国和印度的教师之间的合作研发工作，进行基础研究，对能源生产和实现污染防治涉及能源转换和化学生产的行业。例如，在二氧化碳封存和车辆运输燃料电池领域的新联合发现可以限制两国以及整个世界面临的全球变暖。将特别鼓励年轻和代表性不足的教师的参与。