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(576b) European Federation of Chemical Engineering – Working Party On Thermodynamics and Transport Properties

Authors 

Economou, I. G. - Presenter, Texas A&M University at Qatar



The European Federation of Chemical Engineering Working Party on Thermodynamics and Transport Properties (WP-TTP) was found in 2007 with the following objectives:

  • To promote thermodynamic, transport and physical property measurements, correlations, predictions, and simulations in the academic and industrial chemical engineering communities, the national societies, as well as the national and international funding agencies,
  • To promote concerted education activities to Chemical Engineers in the areas of thermodynamics and transport properties,
  • To offer a suitable forum to Chemical Engineers for exchange of ideas, the development of new basic and applied research projects and collaborations through the organization of conferences, workshops and other activities,
  • To coordinate research activities at the European level by identifying chemical systems and conditions that are important for novel chemical processes and for which data and / or correlations are non-existent or inaccurate so that further work is required,
  • To make available recent developments in the area through an electronic newsletter that will be published every three months.

Today, the WP-TTP has 38 full members representing 24 European countries and 6 guest members, including a US member.  8 members are from industry while the remaining are from academia, national labs and government.

In this presentation, we will discuss recent activities of the WP emphasizing those that aim to promote academia – industry collaboration in research and development.  In particular, we will present an outline of a recent publication related to the needs for accurate data and models for physical properties by the industry [1].  This publication was based on an extensive survey to industry in Europe, North America and Asia.  An additional WP activity is the establishment of a series of workshops under the general title “Industrial Use of Thermodynamics”.  Two workshops were organized in 2010 in Würzburg, Germany and in 2012 in Lyon, France with more than 100 participants each time from industry and academia.  The third one will take place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands in the summer of 2014.

References

[1]  E. Hendriks, G.M. Kontogeorgis, R. Dohrn, J.-C. de Hemptinne, I.G. Economou, L. Fele ?ilnik and V. Vesovic, “Industrial Requirements for Thermodynamics and Transport Properties”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 49(22), 11131 – 11141 (2010).