Separations VI: New Perspectives on Very Large-Scale Operations

建议题目：分离VI：超大规模行动的新视角建议编号：CTS-0437322主要调查者：C.贾森·金机构：理工大学国际工程会议这笔赠款将为2004年10月在澳大利亚举行的国际工程会议国际工程会议提供支持。它将侧重于开发能够满足规模和可靠性要求的新分离技术。主题将包括温室气体的捕获和封存，深海和偏远海上气田天然气的处理，城市水的保护和回收，低环境足迹的矿物加工，以及转向氢能经济。会议将提供一个论坛，来自美国、欧洲、日本、中国、韩国和澳大利亚的学术、政府和企业研究人员将在高度互动的条件下会面，分享经验并规划未来的技术发展。大部分资金将为早期职业研究人员和研究生提供与该领域领导者互动的机会。值得注意的是，美国和澳大利亚在气候变化研究方面开展了联合研究活动，澳大利亚在城市水处理和矿物加工方面展示了国际领先地位。这一点，加上它靠近亚洲，意味着亚洲资深分离研究人员将被吸引到会议上，从而为美国代表提供与新的活跃研究人员群体互动的机会。日本、中国和韩国分别在膜技术和纳米结构吸附剂以及将这门科学应用于加工情况方面都有强大的研究计划。就更广泛的影响而言，这次会议将提供一个机会，重新审视世界上关于分离技术的研究，并确定为解决新一代问题需要做的基本工作。尽管文献中报道了新兴技术(新型高温膜、纳米结构吸附剂、新型化学吸收剂)，但将这些技术转化为大规模技术是一个重大挑战，无论是在优化科学还是将其转化为满足实际需要的可行工程解决方案方面都是如此。

AbstractProposal Title: Separations VI: New Perspectives on Very Large-scale OperationsProposal Number: CTS-0437322Principal Investigator: C. Judson KingInstitution: Engineering Conferences Internatinal of Polytechnic UniversityThis grant will provide support for the conference, Separations VI: New Perspectives on Very Large-Scale Operations, to be held in Australia in October 2004 under the aegis of Engineering Conferences International. It will focus on the development of new separation technologies able to address the demands of scale and reliability. Topics will include capture and sequestration of greenhouse gases, processing of natural gas found in deep and remote off-shore gas fields, conservation and recycle of urban water, low environmental footprint minerals processing, and a move to a hydrogen energy economy. The conference will provide a forum where academic, government, and corporate researchers from the US, Europe, Japan, China, Korea and Australia will meet under strongly interactive conditions to share experience and to plot future technological developments. Most of the funding will provide an opportunity for early career researchers and graduate students to interact with leaders in the field. Notably, the US and Australia have joint research activities in climate change research and Australia has demonstrated international leadership in urban water treatment and mineral processing. This, plus its closeness to Asia means that senior Asian separations researchers will be attracted to conference, thus providing US delegates with the opportunity to interact with a new group of active researchers. Japan, China and Korea each have strong research programs in membrane technology and nanostructured adsorbents and in the application of this science to processing situations. In terms of the broader impacts, the conference will provide an opportunity to reexamine world research on separations technology and to identify the fundamental work that needs to be done to address the new generation of problems. Although there are emergent technologies (novel high temperature membranes, nanostructured adsorbents, new chemical absorbents) being reported in the literature, translating these into large-scale technologies represents a major challenge, both in optimizing the science and translating it into feasible engineering solutions that address practical needs.