Sustainable Resources, Energy, and Materials - A Challenge to Chemical Engineers, a Workshop to be held in Beijing, China, Spring 2004

新罕布什尔州的Mathur， Virendra k.u.“可持续资源，能源和材料研讨会-对化学工程师的挑战”将于2003年春天在中国北京举行。中美化学工程师将就可持续资源、能源和材料等主题举行研讨会。传质和分离现象是车间方法的主要焦点。本次研讨会将于2004年春季在中国北京举行，其主要目的是在中美两国大学教员之间就主要在源头预防污染领域的最新进展进行科学信息交流和对话。另一个目标是灌输这两个国家的教员之间的密切合作，以便在讲习班结束后继续进行互动和关系，以期找到解决全球污染困境的办法。这次联合讲习班将提供一个平台，以实现这些信息交流和教员合作的目标，这些目标可能集中在全球污染这一关键问题上。确定了以下基本研究概念：1)化学分离和质量传递基本原理，为理解/描述化学分离和质量传递提供更新和详细的理解或新的方法/工具；2)化工分离工艺强化与创新，突出微尺度分离工艺和电场、超临界CO2技术等外场操作工艺的进展；3)绿色污染防治工艺，解决能源型污染、工业型污染和材料选择污染防治方面的努力。上述概念涵盖了化学工程的一个非常广泛的领域。本次研讨会的主题将限于以下几个领域。讨论的主题尽可能，但不限于，应该在质量传递，界面，热力学和分离现象的领域-与一般的总体主题相关。会议报告将提交给美国国家科学基金会，更详细的硬拷贝将向公众提供。

Mathur, Virendra K.U of New Hampshire"Workshop on Sustainable Resources, Energy, and Materials - A Challenge to Chemical Engineers" to be held in Beijing, China in the Spring of 2003." A workshop between USA and Chinese chemical engineers will be held on the overarching topics of sustainable resources, energy, and materials. The phenomena of mass transfer and separations are the main focus of the workshop approaches. The main objective of this workshop to be held in Beijing, China, in the of Spring 2004, is to have an exchange of scientific information and a dialogue between the American and Chinese university faculty members on recent advances mainly in the area of pollution prevention at the source. One objective is also to inculcate a close collaboration between the faculty members of these two countries for a sustained interaction and relationship, even after the workshop is over, towards finding a solution to the global pollution dilemma. This joint workshop will provide a platform to achieve these objectives of information exchange and faculty collaboration that may have a focus on this critical problem of worldwide pollution. The following basic research concepts have been identified:1) Chemical separation and mass transport fundamentals to provide updated and detailed understanding or novel ways/tools to understand/describe chemical separation and mass transport; 2) Chemical separation process intensification and innovation to highlight the advances in micro scale separation process and those process operated in external field e.g., electrical field, supercritical CO2 technology, etc. 3) Green process for pollution prevention to address those efforts that may be effective to cope with energy based pollution, industry based pollution and to pollution prevention in material selection. The above concepts cover a very wide area of chemical engineering. The topics for this workshop will be confined to the following areas. The subject of discussions as far as possible, but not limited to, should be in the areas of mass transport, interfacial, thermodynamics, and separations phenomena--related to the general over arching themes.A report of the proceedings will be submitted to NSF and a more detailed hard copy will be available to the public.