SYMPOSIUM THEME

 

ISCRE 22 - Chemical Reaction Engineering: the key to resource sustainability, human health, and quality of life

Sustainability, human health and quality of life have been selected by the ISCRE 22 Organizing Committee as key symposium themes because these topics will continue to determine the scientific, industrial and political agenda for many decades to come.

Energy, raw materials and feedstock resources will become increasingly scarce in the next decades while the demand is increasing tremendously in many world regions. Novel technologies and processes are needed for example for the efficient production of chemicals from biomass feedstocks and for the use of renewable and clean energy sources for electricity production and transportation. The growth and aging of the world population requires new and innovative health systems, such as in the field of controlled drug release, development of smart medical devices, and application of smart diagnostics and analytics. The quality of life is largely dependent on the air and water quality, the degree of emission reduction, development of new personal care and food products, and not to forget on improving process and product safety.

We hope that these three symposium sub-themes will motivate and inspire you to submit exciting and challenging abstracts that may cover many different aspects of these themes. For further guidance, we have collected a number of topics under four different levels, - ranging from fundamental principles to commercial applications -, that might serve as examples of possible contributions.

Principles

Reaction mechanisms and kinetics Novel process windows
Fluid dynamics Multiscale modeling
Experimental methods Enabling technologies
Reaction and reactor dynamics Alternative energy forms in reaction engineering
Systems chemistry Systems biology

Devices

Fuel cells Controlled drugs delivery
Functional medical devices Equipment miniaturization
Multifunctional reactors Diagnostics and process analytics
Reactors for photo- and electro-catalysis Reactors for nanotechnologies

Materials

Functional (bio-)materials (Nano-)structured materials
High-added value materials Novel catalysts
Scarce-element-saving catalysts Special materials in reactor design

Applications

Process intensification Green chemistry
Chemicals from biomass Renewable energy
Chemical looping CO2 utilization
XTL Solar to fuels
Tissue engineering Product engineering
Pollution abatement
Emissions treatment

 

 

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