14th International Congress on Combustion By-Products and Their Health Effects

 描述(由申请者提供)：国际燃烧副产物及其健康影响大会由来已久，汇集了来自不同环境科学学科的学者和研究人员。通过设计，它提供了一个独特的平台，用于交流环境科学不同学科的想法、知识和经验，以促进对与燃烧有关的最新和相关问题的看法。燃烧和热过程代表着与超级基金场地修复相关的重大环境和健康问题，对超级基金研究计划至关重要。近年来，由于公众的严格审查，美国环保局减少了现场受控高温焚烧，取而代之的是低温热解吸/处理和非现场焚烧。所有这些过程都会导致有毒空气污染物的排放，而低温解吸/处理往往比现场焚烧更糟糕。就本次大会而言，燃烧被广泛使用，包括在超级基金场址补救废物的过程中意外或故意发生的所有形式的热反应。它包括催化氧化、热解吸过程和焚烧。它还包括其他燃烧/热反应，包括能源生产和生物质/燃料燃烧。本届大会的目标是提供一个国际论坛，讨论燃烧副产物的起源、命运和对健康的影响等话题。燃烧污染物及其对环境和健康的影响是由科学家、政府官员和利益相关者组成的不同学科小组的重点。尽管这些人从不同的角度和不同的终点来处理这些问题，但这些人有一个共同的目标--了解污染物形成的机制及其对健康/环境的影响，并设计出更好的技术来减少燃烧过程中污染物的形成。这次会议的独特之处在于，它将这一多学科的个人小组聚集在一起，专注于这些问题。它独特地鼓励不同科学家之间的交流，以确保更好地理解正在出现的问题以及有充分记录的问题，这对于促进我们对这个不同领域的理解至关重要。最重要的是，大会通过促进年轻研究人员和受训人员与这一不同领域中有成就的研究人员之间的互动，积极促进他们的发展。通过这项建议，我们请求财政支持，以支付四位(六位中的)受邀的世界名人的旅费。 学者。这些科学家将在大会全体会议上分享他们的知识、经验和前沿科学成果。邀请著名科学家为科学会议和晚宴/联网会议期间的深入讨论提供了基础，并为会议提供了指导，特别是对初级研究人员和受训人员。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The International Congress on Combustion By-Products and their Health Effects has a long tradition of bringing together scholars and researchers from various disciplines of environmental sciences. By design it provides a unique platform for the exchange of ideas, knowledge and experience from within the different disciplines of environmental sciences to advance perspective on the most current and relevant issues associated with combustion. Combustion and thermal processes represent significant environmental and health concerns associated with the remediation of Superfund sites and are of critical importance to the Superfund Research Program. On-site, controlled high-temperature incineration has been reduced by EPA in recent years due to intense public scrutiny and replaced by low temperature thermal desorption/treatment and off-site incineration. All of these processes lead to emission of toxic air pollutants, and often this is worse with the low temperature desorption/treatment than for on-site incineration. Combustion, in terms of this Congress, is used liberally and includes all forms of thermal reactions that occur either accidentally or intentionally during processes to remediate wastes at Superfund sites. It includes catalytic oxidation, thermal desorption processes, and incineration. It also includes other combustion/thermal reactions including energy production and biomass/fuel burning. The goal of this congress is to provide an international forum to discuss topics on the origins, fate, and health effects of combustion by-products. Combustion borne pollutants and their environmental and health impacts are the focus of distinct disciplinary groups of scientists, government officials, and stakeholders. Although these individuals approach these topics from different perspectives and have different endpoints, these individuals share a common goal - to understand the mechanisms of pollutant formation and their health/environmental effects and devise better technologies to reduce pollutant formation during combustion processes. This meeting is unique in that it brings this multidisciplinary group of individuals together to focus o these problems. It uniquely encourages communication among diverse scientists to ensure better understanding of emerging problems as well as well documented ones, which is critical for advancement of our understanding of this diverse field. Most importantly, the Congress actively nurtures the development of younger researcher and trainees by fostering interactions between them and accomplished researchers in this diverse field. With this proposal we are requesting financial support to cover the travel expenses of four (out of six) invited world-renown scholars. These scientists will share their knowledge, experience and cutting-edge scientific results at the plenary sessions of the Congress. The invitation of renowned scientists provides a basis for deep discussions both during the scientific sessions and dinner/networking sessions and serves as instructional enhancement for the conference, particularly for the junior researchers and trainees.