Travel Grant for US Academic Faculty to Attend the XI International Conference on Fluidization to be held in Ischia, Italy from May 9-13, 2004

本提案寻求财政支持，以支付参加定于2004年5月1日至8日在意大利伊斯基亚举行的第十一届流态化国际会议的美国学术人员的部分旅费。会议的全名是第十一届国际流态化会议：流态化工程的现状和未来。这是始于1975年的一系列主要会议中最新的一次，这些会议涉及固体颗粒处理和加工技术。该会议由国际工程会议组织(EGI)赞助，该组织是联合工程基金会会议计划的一个非营利性后续计划。学术价值会议的重点是流态化，这是一种在材料、工艺、制药和能源行业实现多相接触和反应的技术。固体颗粒与气体和/或液体一起流态化的现象因所发现的许多不同的流动状态而变得复杂。粒子之间、粒子与流体之间以及与边界表面之间的动量、质量和能量相互作用是复杂的，而且还没有被很好地理解。会议的主题范围从多相物理和化学的基础到在新颖、新兴和经典技术中的应用。冲击流态化和颗粒处理是一项对从经典行业(化工、石化、能源等)具有重要意义的工程技术。到新的和先进的(生物、制药、材料等)。据估计，涉及处理颗粒和粉末的美国制造工艺很少达到设计产能的60%以上，相比之下，不处理颗粒的工艺产能超过95%。在广泛应用和尚未解决的科学/技术问题的共同推动下，流态化作为基础研究和应用开发的一个领域得到了积极的追求。在这项技术的许多领域，其他国家正在推进重大推进力，超过了美国的努力水平。对美国的学术界和工业界来说，了解最新的进展并参与这一领域的未来发展是很重要的。美国教师参加这次会议显然将增强他们将粒子技术的最新进展纳入课程的能力。在挑选参加这笔赠款的教员时，将努力积极吸纳妇女和代表性不足的少数群体。本次会议的论文将加入本系列先前会议产生的基准书籍的行列，这将对执业工程师和科学家具有直接价值。

AbstractCTS-0422959John C. Chen, Lehigh UniversityThis proposal seeks financial support to partially underwrite the travel expenses of US academic faculty attending the XI International Conference on Fluidization, scheduled for May 1-8, 2004, in Ischia, Italy. The full title of the conference is XI International Conference on Fluidization: Present and Future for Fluidization Engineering. It is the latest in a premier series of conferences dealing with technologies for handling and processing of solid particulates, dating back to 1975. The Conference is sponsored by Engineering Conferences International (EGI), a not-for-profit successor program to the United Engineering Foundation Conferences Program. Intellectual Merit The focus of the Conference is on fluidization as a technology to accomplish multiphase contacting and reactions in the materials, process, pharmaceutical and energy industries. The phenomenon of fluidizing solid particles with gases and/or liquids is complicated by the many different flow regimes that are found to occur. Momentum, mass, and energy interactions between particles, between particles and fluid, and with boundary surfaces are complex and not well understood. The spectrum of subjects at the Conference will range from fundamentals of multiphase physics and chemistry to applications in novel, emerging and classic technologies. Impact Fluidization and particle processing is an engineering technology of importance to industries ranging from the classic (chemical, petrochemical, energy, etc.) to the new and advancing (biological, pharmaceutical, materials, etc.). U.S. manufacturing processes involving the handling of particles and powders have been estimated to rarely reach more than 60 percent of their design capacity, in contrast to over 95 percent capacity for processes that do not handle particles. Motivated by the combination of wide-application and unresolved scientific/technical issues, fluidization is actively pursued as a field of fundamental research and applied development. In many areas of this technology, major thrusts are being advanced in other nations, above and beyond the level of effort in USA. It is important to both academic and industrial segments of America, to stay cognizant of the most recent advances and to participate in future developments in this field. Participation of US faculty in this conference will clearly enhance their ability to incorporate the newest advances of particle technology in curriculums. In selection of faculty to participate in this grant, effort will be made to actively include women and under-represented minorities. The papers of this Conference will join the ranks of benchmark books that have resulted from prior conferences of this series, which will be of direct value to practicing engineers and scientists.