Properties and Phase Equilibria for Product and Process Design (PPEPPD) International Conference, May 22-26, 2016, Porto, Portugal

该项目支持美国研究人员参加即将于2016年5月在葡萄牙波尔图举行的产品和工艺设计的属性和阶段平衡(PPEPPD)国际会议。PPEPPD会议是与化学过程和产品设计相关的分子热力学领域的首屈一指的全球会议。通过为出席会议的高级和初级学术研究人员提供机票补贴，该奖项将促进科学思想的交流和这一重要化学研究领域的最新进展，该领域的重点是降低成本和提高各种化学产品和工艺的效率所需的热物理性质和相平衡数据。PPEPPD 2016将汇集国际研究人员，将分子热力学应用于与工业相关的产品和工艺设计。会议将提供一个论坛，供初级和高级研究人员在热物理性质和相平衡测量和估计技术的前沿进行互动，并确定替代能源和储存、天然气和石油上下游加工、制药和化妆品、海洋和盐水系统和工艺、纳米技术和可持续性等不断增长的领域面临的挑战。PPEPPD的主要目标之一是提供学术、政府和工业研究人员之间的互动，以了解分子热力学(实验和计算)如何有助于现实世界的工业产品和工艺设计。这些会议是来自世界各地的分子热力学专家最重要的聚会，通常吸引了来自北美、南美、欧洲、亚洲、中东和非洲的200-300名与会者。第14届PPEPPD国际组委会选定的主题既包括分子热力学的基本方面(热力学和运输性质、表面、界面和限制效应、量子计算和力场、分子和多尺度模拟)，也包括应用方面(产品和过程工程、天然气和石油下游和上游过程、替代能源和储存、环境过程、可持续性和风险管理、碳捕获和储存、食品加工、农用化学品和生物质、海洋和盐分系统、材料和纳米技术)。PPEPPD的目的是分享最先进的技术，以进一步推动产品和工艺设计，推动全球化工及相关行业的经济增长，并允许对新的分离工艺进行建模，以满足较低的温室气体排放目标。美国的参与对于为一般知识基础做出贡献、建立对全球活动的认识以及促进国际合作至关重要。申请的资金将为少数高级特邀美国讲师和国际组委会成员提供机票支持，但主要将为大约16名年轻研究人员提供支持，如果没有这种支持，他们将无法出席。从教育的角度来看，这对年轻的与会者来说是一个独特的机会，他们可以与来自世界各地的同行建立网络联系，体验与广泛的化学过程和产品相关的热力学、传输性质、相平衡等领域的研究趋势的最新全球视角。

1624141Athanassious Z. PanagiotopoulosThe project supports attendance of U.S. researchers at the Properties and Phase Equilibria for Product and Process Design (PPEPPD) international conference this coming May, 2016 in Porto, Portugal. The PPEPPD conference is the premier worldwide conference in the area of molecular thermodynamics as related to chemical process and product design. By subsidizing airfare for attendance of both senior and junior academic researchers at the conference, the award will foster exchange of scientific ideas and the latest advances in this important area of chemical research focusing on thermophysical properties and phase equilibrium data needed to lower costs and improve efficiencies across a broad spectrum of chemical products and processes. PPEPPD 2016 will bring together international researchers in the application of molecular thermodynamics to industrially relevant product and process design. The conference will provide a forum for interactions between both junior and senior researchers at the cutting edge of techniques for thermophysical properties and phase equilibrium measurement and estimation, and identify the challenges in the growing areas of alternative energy resources and storage, gas and oil upstream and downstream processing, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, marine and saline systems and processes, nanotechnology, and sustainability. One of the primary goals of PPEPPD is to provide interaction between academic, government, and industrial researchers on how molecular thermodynamics (experimental and computation) can benefit real-world industrial product and process design. The meetings are the most important gatherings for molecular thermodynamicists from all over the world - typically attracting 200-300 participants from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The topics selected by the International Organizing Committee of the 14th PPEPPD include both fundamental aspects of molecular thermodynamics (thermodynamics and transport properties, surfaces, interfaces and confinement effects, quantum calculations and force fields, and molecular and multiscale simulations),and applied aspects (product and process engineering, gas and oil downstream and upstream processes, alternative energy resources and storage, environmental processes, sustainability and risk management, carbon capture and storage, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, food processing, agrochemicals and biomass, marine and saline systems, materials, and nanotechnology). The purpose of PPEPPD is the sharing of state-of-the-art techniques to further product and process design that will fuel world-wide economic growth in the chemical and related industries, and allow the modeling of new separation processes for meeting lower greenhouse gas emission goals. U.S. participation is essential for making contributions to the general knowledge base, for building awareness of global activities, and for fostering international collaboration. The requested funding would provide air fare support for a few senior invited U.S. lecturers and members of the international organizing committee, but will mainly provide support for approximately 16 young researchers who would not be able to attend without such support. From an educational standpoint, this represents a unique opportunity for young attendees to network with peers from around the world and experience the latest worldwide perspective on research trends in the areas of thermodynamics, transport properties, phase equilibria, etc. as related to a broad range of chemical processes and products.