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Preface for the NASCRE‑3 Special Issue (3rd North American Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering) he field of chemical reaction engineering (CRE) is a core area of the chemical engineering discipline and plays a vital role in economic vitality and growth. Research developments in and the practice of CRE is essential to the chemical and energy industries, whether it is in the production or use of energy, in chemicals manufacturing, clean transportation, environmental technology, or sustainability. This issue of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research provides published papers from the 3rd North American Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (NASCRE-3), held March 17−20, 2013 in Houston, Texas. The theme of NASCRE-3 was “Chemical Reaction Engineering for a Sustainable Future: Addressing New Challenges and Revisiting Persistent Problems in Energy, Environmental, and Chemicals Research”. The meeting brought together leading scientists and engineers to exchange the latest research progress in CRE. The program comprised 3 plenary lectures, 12 keynote talks, 66 regular oral presentations, and more than 60 poster presentations. The conference had ∼200 registrants from around the world with a healthy mix of academic and industrial researchers. We were particularly excited about the excellent participation from the next generation of chemical reaction engineers. We had many inspiring, educational talks that encouraged lively discussions and interactions! Two workshops were offered to conference registrants: one on computational transport and reaction and the other on computational catalysis. The workshops were well-attended, and judging from the presentations and the research articles contained in this special issue, these tools have already begun to transform the field of CRE. Lastly, we had the great pleasure of presenting the Neal R. Amundson Award for Excellence in Chemical Reaction Engineering to Professor Lanny Schmidt from the University of Minnesota. Lanny’s influence on the CRE community is perhaps best highlighted by the research presentations contributed by his former students in both academia and industry at NASCRE-3. We hope that you enjoy reading the papers in this special issue.
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Mike Harold,* Meeting Chair
University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
Dave West, Meeting Co-Chair
SABIC, Houston, Texas, United States
Ben Wilhite, Meeting Co-Chair
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Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States
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*Tel.: 713 743 4322. Fax: 713 743 4323. E-mail: mharold@uh. edu.
Special Issue: NASCRE 3
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Received: September 5, 2013 Accepted: September 10, 2013 Published: November 6, 2013
Views expressed in this Editorial are those of the authors and are not necessarily the views of the ACS. © 2013 American Chemical Society
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dx.doi.org/10.1021/ie4029329 | Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2013, 52, 15225−15225
