International Conference on Separation Technology to be Held in Davos, Switzerland, May 15-19, 1989

本提案是为出席“第三届 国际分离技术会议”， 工程基础。 关于这个主题的第二次会议是 1987年由工程基金会赞助。 欧洲工人在 在这一重要的技术领域取得进展， 美国工人也是如此;因此，通过将美国暴露于欧洲的工作， 美国社会可以更快地从中受益。 分离技术对生物技术的商业化至关重要。 几种新兴的工程技术，其中生物技术是 最值得注意的 几个欧洲国家已经做出了重大贡献， 在这些领域的研究工作，并在一定程度上领先于美国 大规模生物分离商业化的社区 技术和商业超临界萃取工艺。 欧洲工人最近还在以下方面进行了重要的创新： 精馏技术和填料床逆流吸收技术。 他们也在先进的膜技术方面做出了重大努力。 美国社区应该从更广泛的接触中受益匪浅 他们的工作。

This proposal is for travel subsidies for attendees at the "Third International Conference on Separations Technology," sponsored by the Engineering Foundation. The second conference on this topic was sponsored by the Engineering Foundation in 1987. European workers are making progress in this important area of technology at least as fast as are US workers; thus, by exposing the US to the European work, the US community can benefit from it more quickly. Separations technologies are critical to the commercialization of several emerging engineering technologies, biotechnology being the most notable. Several European countries have made significant research efforts in these areas, and are somewhat ahead of the US community in the commercialization of large scale bioseparations technology and in commercial supercritical extraction processes. European workers have also made recent important innovations in distillation technology and countercurrent absorption in packed bed. They are making major efforts in advanced membrane technology as well. The US community should benefit greatly from more extensive exposure to their work.