The Third International Symposium on Sustainable Chemical Product and Process Engineering, Dalian, China, June 2-5, 2013

不可再生资源的枯竭、空气、水和土壤污染、全球变暖、平流层臭氧和森林的枯竭、饮用水和农业用水的短缺以及人口的过度增长是全球社会面临的主要挑战。联合国在《布伦特兰报告》中指出？目前的资源消耗和环境退化的模式不能继续下去，为了减少我们面临的问题，社会必须作为一个整体采取行动。今天，环境可持续性、能源可持续性、制造可持续性、过程和产品可持续性、水可持续性、商业可持续性等都得到了广泛的研究和实践。如何保证工程的可持续性成为工程长期发展的焦点。化学和相关行业一直在合作解决我们今天和未来需要解决的紧迫问题。这极大地刺激了学术机构开发以可持续工程为重点的创新和积极的研究和教育计划。我们非常希望有一个论坛，让这一领域的研究人员和实践者分享他们的研究和教育经验。因此，第三届可持续化工产品与过程工程国际研讨会拟于2013年6月2-5日在中国大连召开。知识价值：第三届研讨会将有以下主要目标：(i)分享在经济、环境及社会可持续发展方面的知识和研究经验；（ii）评估最先进的绿色化工产品和工艺工程；（iii）弥合研究与发展之间的差距，加强学术界与工业界的联系；（iv）讨论化学及相关工业的研究方向，以推动可持续发展，以及将工业可持续发展纳入化学工程课程的教育方法，以及(v)探讨在拟议的技术领域进行国际合作的机会。更广泛的影响：该项目将促进美国研究人员/教育工作者与10多个国家的领先研究人员和教育工作者交流知识，并帮助美国代表确定可持续化学工程研究和教育方面的国际合作机会。我们将鼓励初级教师和研究人员以及研究生/本科生，特别是来自代表性不足的少数民族的学生参加研讨会。本次研讨会还将包括两个小型讲习班，以促进可持续化学工程研究和教育方面的国际合作

Depletion of nonrenewable resources, air, water, and soil pollution, global warming, depletion of stratospheric ozone and forests, scarcity of water for drinking and agriculture, and excessive population growth are among the major challenges to the global society. The United Nations indicated in the Brundtland Report1 that the ?current patterns of resource consumption and environmental degradation could not continue as they were and in order to reduce the problem facing us, society must act as a whole.? Today, environmental sustainability, energy sustainability, manufacturing sustainability, process and product sustainability, water sustainability, business sustainability, etc., are studied and practiced extensively. How to ensure engineering sustainability becomes a focal point for long-term development. The chemical and allied industries have been working collaboratively towards solutions to the pressing issues that we need to address today and in the future. This has greatly stimulated the academic institutions to develop sustainable-engineering-focused innovative and aggressive research and educational programs. A forum for the researchers and practitioners in this area to share their research and educational experience will be highly desirable. Therefore, the 3rd International Symposium on Sustainable Chemical Product and Process Engineering on Sustainable Chemical Engineering is proposed that is planned to be held in Dalian, China, June 2-5, 2013.Intellectual Merit: The 3rd symposium will have the following main objectives: (i) to share knowledge and research experience in studying economic, environmental and social sustainability, (ii) to assess the state-of-the-art green chemical product and process engineering, (iii) to bridge the gap between research and development, strengthening the linkage between academia and industries, (iv) to discuss research directions for the chemical and allied industries to move towards sustainability and educational approaches for the integration of industrial sustainability into the chemical engineering curriculum, and (v) to explore opportunities for international collaboration in the proposed technical areas.Broader Impacts: The project will facilitate US researchers/educators to exchange knowledge with leading researchers and educators in over 10 countries, and help the US delegates identify international collaboration opportunities in the research and education of sustainable chemical engineering. Junior faculty and researchers as well as graduate/undergraduate students, especially those in the underrepresented ethnic groups, will be encouraged to participate in the symposium. This symposium will also include two mini-workshops for catalyzing international collaborations on sustainable chemical engineering research and education