Travel Support: XI Iberoamerican Conference on Phase Equilibria and Fluid Properties for Process Design, Equifase 2018

差旅支持：第十一届伊比利亚美洲工艺设计相平衡和流体特性会议，Equifase 2018

• 批准号: 1834305
• 负责人: Walter Chapman
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-15 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1834305&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; Support; XI; Iberoamerican; Conference

New thermodynamic data and models are essential for optimizing the performance of conventional chemical processes and for developing new energy efficient and environmentally sustainable ones. Furthermore, thermodynamic data and models are central to scientific advances in designing and manufacturing advanced materials. This grant will provide partial support for US-based junior faculty and young researchers from diverse backgrounds to attend the XI Iberoamerican Conference on Phase Equilibria for Process Design (EQUIFASE 2018). The conference will be held from October 22 - 25, 2018 in the city of Carlos Paz, in the province of Cordoba, Argentina. The goal of this international conference is to identify new opportunities in research and education and to promote international collaboration related to basic data for chemical process design and optimization. The conference is unique in the wide participation of researchers and students from South American countries, providing the only meeting that brings much of this community together with researchers from the international community.EQUIFASE 2018 will focus on improved thermodynamic data and advanced computational models to enable optimal design of processes related to energy conversion and storage, chemical processing, materials fabrication, to maximize energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. Intellectual merits of the conference include: (1) Identification of key challenges in conventional process industries and in new areas of process intensification related to processing of energy, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and bio-chemicals. (2) Development of a roadmap to address these challenges by promoting collaboration that integrates methods of experimental design, molecular modeling and computation, and modern approaches of machine learning. Education will be a key topic of the conference with focus on international collaborations in distance learning and open courses. The young conference participants, many from underrepresented groups in STEM, will benefit from state-of-the-art reviews and presentations by leading experts, by exchanging the latest advances on frontier research subjects relating to molecular thermodynamics and chemical processes, and by debating controversial points with their peers. The conference will also provide an excellent opportunity for interaction and cooperation among academic and industrial researchers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

新的热力学数据和模型对于优化传统化学工艺的性能以及开发新的节能和环境可持续的工艺至关重要。此外，热力学数据和模型对于设计和制造先进材料的科学进步至关重要。 这笔赠款将为来自不同背景的美国初级教师和年轻研究人员提供部分支持，以参加第十一届伊比利亚美洲过程设计相平衡会议（EQUIFASE 2018）。会议将于2018年10月22日至25日在阿根廷科尔多瓦省卡洛斯帕斯市举行。本次国际会议的目标是发现研究和教育方面的新机会，并促进与化学工艺设计和优化基础数据相关的国际合作。该会议的独特之处在于来自南美国家的研究人员和学生的广泛参与，这是唯一一次将南美国家的大部分人员与国际社会的研究人员聚集在一起的会议。EQUIFASE 2018 将重点关注改进的热力学数据和先进的计算模型，以实现最佳的热力学数据和先进的计算模型。设计与能源转换和存储、化学加工、材料制造相关的工艺，以最大限度地提高能源效率和环境可持续性。会议的学术价值包括： (1) 确定传统流程工业以及与能源、化学品、药品和生物化学品加工相关的流程强化新领域的主要挑战。 (2) 制定路线图，通过促进整合实验设计、分子建模和计算以及现代机器学习方法的合作来应对这些挑战。教育将是会议的一个关键议题，重点关注远程学习和开放课程的国际合作。 年轻的会议参与者大多来自 STEM 领域代表性不足的群体，他们将受益于顶尖专家的最先进的评论和演讲，交流分子热力学和化学过程相关前沿研究课题的最新进展，并讨论有争议的问题与同龄人的积分。此次会议还将为学术界和工业研究人员之间的互动与合作提供绝佳的机会。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。