Emerging Issues in National Energy and Environmental Security: Research Opportunities and Challenges for Chemical Engineers

该奖项是一个团体旅行项目，供美国参与者参加为期四天的研讨会，主题是国家能源和环境安全中的新问题：化学工程师的研究机会和挑战。地点是：印度理工学院，印度新德里，2010年1月4日至6日。计划在美国和印度的化学工程教员之间举办一次研讨会，主题是与科学、技术和可持续发展相关的交通、环境和能源过程的基本原理。界面过程、热力学、传质、分离、催化、燃烧以及粒子力学、能源和环境可持续性等现象是研讨会方法的主要焦点。美国联合PI将是路易斯安那技术大学的Daniela Mainardi博士。印度协调员将是新德里印度理工学院教授S.Basu博士。该建议还包括由几名特别挑选的美国参与者在研讨会后进行后续访问，访问印度教职员工的研究实验室，以建立深入的科学互动。这次讲习班的主要目的是交流科学信息，并在美国和印度大学教职员工之间就主要在上述基础研究领域取得的最新进展进行对话。计划并希望这次接触将导致两国的研究合作。另一个目标也是在这两个国家的教职员工之间灌输密切的长期合作，特别是初级和少数族裔教职员工，以保持持续的互动和关系。即使研讨会结束后，这种探索可能导致全球能源和污染挑战的长期解决方案的基本新概念的努力仍将继续。这次联合研讨会将提供一个平台，以实现信息交流和教师研究合作的这些目标，这些目标也可能集中在世界各地的这些关键问题上。学术价值：研讨会将涵盖与运输、环境和能源过程的基本原理相关的各种主题。其中包括界面过程、热力学、传质、分离、催化、燃烧和颗粒力学、能源和环境可持续性。这些领域的美国研究人员将被邀请，他们将符合印度研究人员的兴趣。更广泛的影响：此次研讨会的主要影响将是维持我们在美国和印度教职员工之间合作研发工作的努力，以承担能源生产的基础研究，并在涉及能源转换和化学生产的行业实现污染防治。例如，在二氧化碳封存和车辆运输燃料电池领域的新联合发现可能会限制两国以及整个世界面临的全球变暖。将特别鼓励年轻和任职人数不足的教职员工参与。

0955812MathurThe award is a group travel project for U.S. participants to attend a four day Workshop on Emerging Issues in National Energy and Environmental Security: Research Opportunities and Challenges for Chemical Engineers. The location would be: Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India on January 4-6, 2010.A workshop is planned between the US and Indian chemical engineering faculty members is proposed on the overarching topics of fundamentals of transport, environment, and energy processes as related to science, technology and sustainability. The phenomena of interfacial processes, thermodynamics, mass transfer, separations, catalysis, combustion, and particle mechanics, energy and environmental sustainability are the main focus of the workshop approaches. The US co-PI will be Dr Daniela Mainardi, of Louisiana Technical University. The Indian coordinator will be Dr S. Basu, Professor, IIT, New Delhi. The proposal also includes post workshop follow-up visits by a few specially selected US participants to visit the research laboratories of the Indian faculty to establish in depth scientific interaction. The main objective of this workshop is to have an exchange of scientific information and a dialogue between the American and Indian university faculty members on recent advances mainly in the above mentioned areas of fundamental research. It is planned and hoped that this contact will lead to bi-national research collaborations. Another goal is also to inculcate a close long-term collaboration between the faculty members particularly junior and minority faculty of these two countries for a sustained interaction and relationship. This effort of exploring fundamental new concepts that might lead to long-term solutions to the global energy and pollution challenges is to continue even after the workshop is over. This joint workshop will provide a platform to achieve these objectives of information exchange and faculty research collaboration that may also have a focus on these critical problems across the world. Intellectual Merit: The workshop would cover a variety of topics relevant to fundamentals of transport, environment, and energy processes. These include interfacial processes, thermodynamics, mass transfer, separations, catalysis, combustion and particle mechanics, energy and environmental sustainability. U.S. researchers in these areas will be invited who will match the interests of Indian researchers. Broader Impact: The major impact of this workshop would be to sustain our endeavor towards collaborative R&D effort between faculty members of the USA and India to undertake fundamental research towards energy production and achieving pollution prevention and control in industries involved in energy conversion and chemical production. For example, new joint discoveries in the field of carbon dioxide sequestration and fuel cells for vehicular transportation could limit global warming faced by both nations as well as the entire World. Participation of young and under represented faculty will be especially encouraged.