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常规化学过程的性能以及开发新的节能和环境可持续性至关重要。此外，热力学数据和模型对于设计和制造高级材料的科学进步至关重要。 这项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，参加了过程设计的XI Iberoamerican阶段平衡会议（Equifase 2018）。会议将于2018年10月22日至25日在阿根廷科尔多瓦省的卡洛斯·帕兹市举行。这次国际会议的目标是确定研究和教育方面的新机会，并促进与化学过程设计和优化基本数据相关的国际合作。这次会议在来自南美国家的研究人员和学生的广泛参与中是独一无二的，提供了将该社区与来自国际社会的研究人员融合在一起的唯一会议。Equifase 2018将重点介绍改进的热力学数据和先进的计算模型，以实现与能源转换和储存，化学处理，材料制造，材料制造，最大化能量可持续性和环境可持续性相关的过程的最佳设计。会议的智力优点包括：（1）识别传统过程行业中的主要挑战以及与能源，化学，药物和生物化学物质的处理有关的新过程强化领域。 （2）开发路线图，通过促进合作，整合实验设计，分子建模和计算方法以及机器学习的现代方法，来应对这些挑战。教育将是会议的关键主题，重点是远程学习和开放课程的国际合作。 年轻的会议参与者，来自STEM中代表性不足的群体的许多参与者将通过领先的专家的最新评论和演讲受益，通过交换与分子热力学和化学过程有关的边境研究对象的最新进展，并通过与同伴争议性的观点进行辩论。该会议还将为学术和工业研究人员之间的互动和合作提供绝佳的机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估值得支持的。