Preface to the CAMURE 8 & ISMR 7 Special Issue - Industrial

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Preface to the CAMURE 8 & ISMR 7 Special Issue The joint event Catalysis in Multiphase Reactors and International Symposium on Multifunctional Reactors (CAMURE 8 & ISMR 7) took place in Naantali, Finland. Naantali (Nådendal in Swedish, Vallis Gratiae in Latin), which is the summer capital of Finland, has been one of the cultural cradles of Finland since ancient times. In medieval times, the first Finnish author, Jöns Budde, was living and writing in the local monastery. Today, Naantali is a vivid town with historical and modern attractions: it has medieval churches and a wooden downtown, and it is the summer residence of the President of the Republic of Moominland. Naantali is also an industrial and business town: it has a large harbor, and a power plant (Fortum) and an oil refinery (NesteOil) are located in the vicinity of the town. The picturesque little town along the shore of the Baltic Sea provided a unique atmosphere for scientific interactions during CAMURE 8 & ISMR 7 in May 22−25, 2011. The topics of the conference were very trendy, since mankind is facing an enormous transition: a shift from fossil feedstock to molecules from biomass in the production of chemicals and fuel components. To meet this challenge, chemical engineeringand, particularly, chemical reaction engineeringis urgently needed. The core of any chemical process is the chemical reactor: this is where the necessary molecular transformations take place, under well-controlled and optimized conditions. In many applications, several phases gas, liquid, and solidare present and in pursuing more efficient processes, multifunctionality of a chemical reactor is an attractive alternative, leading to reactive absorption, distillation and extraction, membrane reactors, chromatographic reactors, etc. A deep understanding of the interaction of chemical kinetics and mass and heat transfer, as well as flow dynamics, is required for successful process intensification. All of the future reactors do not necessarily operate at steady state, but transient operation can be an option. Processes will be miniaturized by the use of microscale and milliscale reactors. New measurement methods are developed and mathematical modeling advances all the time. All these aspects were discussed at CAMURE-8 & ISMR-7. We were happy to receive many abstracts from the scientific community. Based on an evaluation of the proposals, 52 oral presentations and 75 poster presentations were selected. Five plenary lectures were included in the conference program, and we had the pleasure to hear a historical lecture about the cultural and industrial development of southwestern Finland. A large international scientific committee had the responsibility of evaluating the abstracts. The research group in Catalysis and Reaction Engineering at the Process Chemistry Centre (PCC) of Åbo Akademi University took care of the practical organization of the symposium. The total number of participants exceeded 160. The following plenary lectures were given at the conference: • Faic̈ a̧ l Larachi (Université Laval, Québec): Recent advances in CO2 capturereaction and reactor conconcepts in mineral carbonation, enzymatic hydration, and hybrid amine−ionic liquids • Alirio E. Rodrigues (Universidade do Porto): Chromatographic reactors © 2012 American Chemical Society

Scientific Committee Adesoli Adesina

University of New South Wales

David Agar

TU Dortmund

Bengt Andersson

Chalmers University of Technology

Claude de Bellefon

CNRS−LGPC Lyon

Miryan Cassanello

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Raghunath V. Chaudhari

Kansas University

Henri Delmas

INPT, Toulouse

Milorad P. Dudukovic

Washington University, St. Louis

Asterios A. Gavriilidis

University College, London

Andrzej Gorak

TU Dortmund

Jiri Hanika

Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

Anders Holmen

NTNU, Trondheim

Jean Jenck

ENKI Sustainable Technologies

Bhaskar D. Kulkarni

National Chemical Laboratory, Pune

Ruediger Lange

Technische Universität Dresden

Faical Larachi

Université Laval, Quebec École Polytechnique de Montréal

Jitka Kirchnerova Hugo de Lasa

University of Western Ontario

Juha Lehtonen

NesteOil

Jan Lerou

Velocys, Inc.

Janez Levec

University of Ljubljana

Zai-Sha Mao

Institute of Process Engineering, Beijing

Milos Marek

Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague

Miguel Menendez

University of Zaragoza

Jyri-Pekka Mikkola

University of Umeå

Patrick L. Mills

TAMU Kingsville

Jacob Moulijn

TU Delft

Dmitry Murzin

Åbo Akademi University

Nikos Papayannakos

National Technical University of Athens

Albert Renken

EPFL Lausanne

Alirio Rodrigues

University of Porto

Elio Santacesaria

University of Naples

Tapio Salmi

Åbo Akademi University

Jaap Schouten

TU Eindhoven

Hugh Stitt

Johnson Matthey Catalysts

Bala Subramaniam

Kansas University

Antti Vuori

Kemira

Ganapati D. Yadav

University Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai

Organizing Committee Tapio Salmi

Andreas Bernas

Dmitry Murzin

Kari Eränen

Special Issue: CAMURE 8 and ISMR 7 Published: July 3, 2012 8709

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Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

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Organizing Committee Johan Wärnå

Matias Kangas

Jyri-Pekka Mikkola

Maria Ljung

Päivi Mäki-Arvela

Pasi Tolvanen

(Åbo Akademi Process Chemistry Centre) Honorary Committee Mr. Jarl-Thure Eriksson, Professor, Chancellor of Åbo Akademi University Mr. Jorma Mattinen, Professor, Rector Magnificus of Åbo Akademi University Mr. Timo Kvist, Mayor of Naantali

• Enrico Drioli (Università di Calabria): Catalytic membrane reactors • Baoning Zong (China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation): Amorphous Ni catalysts and magnetically stabilized bed reaction technology and their commercial integration • Claude De Bellefon (Université de Lyon): Multiphase microstructured reactors The plenary lectures covered the broad scope of the conference very well. A lot of time was reserved for discussion after each oral presentation, and two extensive poster sessions were organized. The Best Poster Award was given to Ms. Sabine Schwidder (Brandenburg University of Technology, from the group of Prof. Klaus Schnitzlein). The work concerned advanced modeling and simulation of trickle bed reactors. The full-length papers included in this special issue have undergone the strict reviewing procedure of the journal. All the papers published here meet the high standard of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. We are happy that so many participants selected this journal as the forum for their results. I express my gratitude to all participants and presenters of the conference, to the members of scientific and organization committees, and to all of you who submitted full-length papers to the special issue of CAMURE 8 & ISMR 7. The conference series CAMURE-ISMR is known for its global dimension and quality. The milestone of 20 years of CAMURE will be reached in 2014, and we shall go back to the roots: next symposium will take place in 2014, in Lyon, France, under the leadership of Professor Claude De Bellefon.

Tapio Salmi, Chairman of Scientific Committee

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland (E-mail: [email protected] i)

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The authors declare no competing financial interest.

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