Support for US Participants for International Conference on Fluidization

1323192PI: lepek该提案将有助于补贴差旅相关费用，使美国研究人员，特别是像PI这样的早期职业研究人员，能够参加并在2013年5月25日至30日在荷兰Noordwijkerhout举行的流化XIV会议（流化XIV：从基础到产品）上展示他们的研究。这项提案将支持来自美国机构的研究人员，他们通常没有必要的财政资源来参加这次国际会议。此外，该提案将有助于支持将被招募参加本次会议的早期职业研究人员和来自STEM领域传统上代表性不足群体的研究人员的差旅费用。流态化是一个非常重要的基础研究和广泛的工业应用领域。目前，关于复杂的流体-颗粒相互作用的知识，特别是与多相输运现象和化学反应相结合的知识仍然不完整。这主要是由于在移动流体介质中耦合颗粒的固体特性及其流体动力学行为所带来的挑战。传热传质操作和化学反应系统的增加使得多相系统（如流化床反应器）在成功设计、放大和操作方面面临挑战。虽然流化床反应器在石化工业中相当普遍，但在其他工业中也可以找到各种应用，例如涂层和新材料的设计。因此，流化研究的进步对于帮助开发和最终商业化新技术是必要的，这些新技术包括二氧化碳捕获（化学环）、可再生能源系统、纳米结构材料和新型涂层药物递送系统的连续处理。本次会议将重点讨论流化研究领域的进展，这些进展影响着研究和开发，以及在广泛的化学过程、生命科学和食品科学行业中常见的先进材料的大规模制造。本次会议将汇集来自多个大洲的科学家和工程师，他们专注于流化研究，这可能对多个行业产生重大影响。通过将对流化有共同兴趣的研究人员聚集在一起，预计将建立新的国际伙伴关系和合作关系。这将特别有利于这项提案支持的早期职业研究人员，他们将有独特的机会在一群知名的国际研究人员面前展示他们最近未发表的研究成果。

1323192PI: LepekThis proposal will help subsidize travel-related expenses to enable U.S. researchers, particularly early-career researchers such as the PI, to attend and present their research at the Fluidization XIV conference (Fluidization XIV: From Fundamentals to Products) in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands (May 25-30, 2013). This proposal will support researchers from U.S. institutions that would normally not have the financial resources necessary to attend this international conference. In addition, this proposal will help support the travel costs of early-career researchers and researchers from traditionally underrepresented groups in the STEM fields that will be recruited to participate in this conference. Fluidization is a very important field of both fundamental research and broad industrial applications. Currently, knowledge of complex fluid-particle interactions, particularly when coupled with multiphase transport phenomena and chemical reactions is still incomplete. This is primarily due to the challenges associated with coupling the solid properties of particles and their hydrodynamic behavior within a moving fluid medium. The addition of heat and mass transfer operations and also chemical reacting systems makes multiphase systems such as fluidized bed reactors a challenge to successfully design, scale-up, and operate. Although fluidized bed reactors are fairly common within the petrochemical industry, they can be found in other industries for a variety of applications such as coating and the design of new materials. Therefore, advances in fluidization research are necessary to help develop and ultimately commercialize new technologies such as CO2 capture (chemical looping), renewable energy systems, nanostructured materials, and the continuous processing of novel coated drug delivery systems. This conference will focus on advances in the field of fluidization research which impact the research and development, as well as the large-scale manufacturing of advanced materials that are common across a wide range of chemical process, life science, and food science industries. This conference will bring together a wide range of scientists and engineers across multiple continents that are focused on fluidization research, which can have a major impact on multiple industries. By bringing together researchers who share a mutual interest in fluidization, it is expected that new international partnerships and collaborations will be established. This will be especially beneficial to the early-career researchers supported by this proposal that will have the unique opportunity to present their recent unpublished research findings in front of a congregation of established international researchers.