Workshop: Fundamentals of Transport, Pollution and Energy Processes

项目名称：研讨会：运输，环境和能源过程的基础知识 （CTS-0633780）;新罕布什尔州达勒姆大学，该项目是美国和中国学术化学工程师之间的研讨会，主题是运输、环境和能源过程的基础知识，于2006年8月20日至23日在新罕布什尔州达勒姆举行。讲习班参与者的主要重点是工程现象，如传质，分离，催化和粒子力学与前沿研究领域。联合研究项目可能最终产生于在这次讲习班上建立的专业联系。背景：能源和环境污染是一个全球性问题，最好通过国际合作来解决。由于污染意识和严格的法律，在过去的30年里，主要污染物的排放量有了相当大的减少。尽管取得了这些进展，但美国每年仍有超过1.7亿吨的污染物排放到空气中，大约有1.33亿人生活在受监测的空气有时不健康的县，因为六种主要空气污染物（颗粒物，二氧化硫，一氧化碳，二氧化氮，臭氧和碳氢化合物）中的至少一种含量很高。减少美国环境污染只是解决方案的一部分。近年来，发展中国家和发达国家的能源消费都在上升。像中国这样拥有快速发展的化学工业的国家可能会在我们星球未来的环境健康中发挥决定性作用。布什总统最近对中国和印度的访问强调了这两个国家努力减少这类问题的重要性。目的：这次研讨会将在美国新罕布什尔州的达勒姆举行，主要目的是在美国和中国大学教员之间就上述基础研究领域的最新进展进行科学信息交流和对话。另一个目标是灌输教师之间的密切合作，特别是这两个国家的初级和少数民族教师之间的持续互动和关系，即使在研讨会结束后，朝着协调我们的努力，探索可能导致长期解决全球污染挑战的基本新概念。这次联合研讨会将提供一个平台，以实现这些目标的信息交流和教师合作，可能有一个重点对这个关键问题的全球性的环境污染。智力优点：研讨会将涵盖各种主题相关tofundamentals的运输，环境和能源过程。更广泛的影响：这次研讨会的主要影响是继续我们的努力，使美国和中国的教职员工之间的合作研发努力，开展基础研究，这是由上一次研讨会（2005年在中国举行）开始的，旨在实现能源转换和化学生产行业的污染预防和控制。此外，中国教师将来可能会访问美国大学校园，他们将相互提供信息，并有助于了解我们的教学体系，研究过程和生活方式。这次研讨会也可能为美国和中国学生的交流创造一个机会，共同研究项目。

Project Title: Workshop: Fundamentals of Transport, Environmental, and Energy Processes (CTS-0633780); University of New Hampshire, Durham, This project is a workshop between USA and Chinese academic chemical engineers on the overarching topics of fundamentals of transport, environment, and energy processes held in Durham, New Hampshire August 20 to 23, 2006. The main focus of the workshop participants is engineering phenomena such as mass transfer, separations, catalysis and particle mechanics as related to frontier areas of research. Joint research projects may ultimately flow from the professional contacts made at this workshop.Background: Energy and environmental pollution is a global problem and can best be solved with international cooperation. Because of the pollution awareness and strict laws, during the past 30 years, there has been considerable reduction in the emissions of major pollutants. Despite this progress, over 170 million tons of pollutants are emitted into the air each year in the United States, and approximately 133 million people live in counties where monitored air was unhealthy at times because of high levels of at least one of the six principal air pollutants (particulates, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and hydrocarbons). Reducing pollution in the US environment is only part of the solution. During recent years, energy consumption of both developing and developed countries has been on the rise. Countries like China with fast growing chemical-based industries are likely to play a decisive role in the future environmental health of our planet. Recent visits of President Bush to China and India underlines the importance of these two nations in working toward reducing such problems.Objective: The main objective of this workshop to be held in Durham, NH, USA 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 above mentioned areas of fundamental research. Another objective is to inculcate a close collaboration between the faculty members particularly junior and minority faculty of these two countries for a sustained interaction and relationship, even after the workshop is over, towards coordinating our efforts to exploring fundamental new concepts that might lead to long term solutions to the global pollution challenges. This joint workshop will provide a platform to achieve these objectives of information exchange and faculty collaborationthat may have a focus on this critical problem of worldwide pollution of the environment.Intellectual Merit: The workshop would cover a variety of topics relevant tofundamentals of transport, environment, and energy processes. These include masstransfer, separations, catalysis, and particle mechanics.Broader Impact: The major impact of this workshop would be to sustain our endeavortowards collaborative R&D effort between faculty members of the USA and China toundertake fundamental research, that was started by the last workshop (held in China in 2005), towards achieving pollution prevention and control in industries involved in energy conversion and chemical production. In addition, a future visits by the Chinese faculty to a US university campus may result, and they would be mutually informative and helpful in their understanding our system of teaching, research process, and way of life. This workshop may also generate an opportunity for the exchange of American and Chinese students to work on joint research projects.