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Preface: 21st International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE 21) The 21st International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE 21) was held at Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, June 13-16, 2010. The symposium focused on the role of Chemical Reaction Engineering in addressing resource sustainability, environmental, and life science challenges. These are critical issues faced by our society today. We had an exciting symposium with 6 plenaries, 112 oral presentations, and 115 poster presentations. The oral presentations were organized in 20 sessions, while the posters were divided between 2 dedicated poster sessions. The topics covered by the presentations included rational design of catalysts, computational catalysis, reaction path analysis, dynamics of chemical reactors, multiphase and reacting flows, environmental reaction engineering, microreactors, membrane reactors, process intensification, fuel cells, bioderived chemicals and fuels, clean coal conversion processes, CO2 capture and utilization, hydrogen production and utilization, and novel functional materials. A total of 264 people registered for this conference, with participants coming from all over the world, as shown in Figure 1. The conference opening reception was held on Sunday evening on the 33rd floor of the Loews, with breathtaking panoramic views of the city. The conference banquet was held offsite at the TRUST venue. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (IECR) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) graciously agreed to publish selected papers from ISCRE 21. This ISCRE 21 special issue consists of InVited PerspectiVes by the plenary speakers, as well as regular, full-length contributed papers by the other authors. The IECR editor’s office handled the review process and manuscripts were selected for publication following the usual procedure and standards of IECR. Manuscripts were submitted by a vast majority of the authors making oral presentations and a small number of the poster presenters. We would like to thank
the IECR editor, Donald R. Paul, and his assistant, Susan Chapman, for their help with the publication process. We would like to thank the National Science Foundation, Dow Chemical, DuPont, ExxonMobil, UOP, Bristol-Myers Squibb, ADM, Praxair, ChevronPhillips, Exelus, CPFD, and IECR for their financial support of the meeting. This financial support was used to help with partial offset of the cost of 6 young faculty and 34 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from all over the world. We gratefully acknowledge assistance from the scientific and organizing committee members on the development of the technical program; 340 abstracts were submitted for the symposium, and the co-chairs of this conference worked closely with the scientific and organizing committee members and selected 112 of them for oral presentations and 115 as posters. We appreciate the enthusiastic support provided by student volunteers, who helped with the logistics of the meeting. Ms. Robin Craven, the conference manager for ISCRE 21, deserves special mention for her help with organizing and running the symposium. Helpful input from the ISCRE Board is also acknowledged. It was a privilege to have had the opportunity to organize ISCRE 21. This task took considerable planning and investment of time over the past two years and we are grateful to all who helped us in this endeavor. We hope that the meeting and this special IECR issue are valuable to the catalysis and reaction engineering community.
Concetta LaMarca, Conference Co-Chair DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware 19898 (
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Sankaran Sundaresan, Conference Co-Chair Princeton UniVersity, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 (
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Dion Vlachos, Conference Co-Chair UniVersity of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 Figure 1. Distribution of ISCRE 21 participants by geographic area from around the world.
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