{"id":1480,"date":"2019-07-11T12:16:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T09:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2019-08-05T13:05:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T10:05:14","slug":"1480","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/2019\/07\/11\/1480\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCRE 4 \u00a0&#8211; 2019 \u2013 Houston \u2013 no problem &#8211; Houston is great! \u2013 The Eagle has landed!\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1342\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/files\/2018\/12\/Salmi_2018.jpg\" alt=\"Tapio Salmi\" width=\"170\" height=\"220\" \/><\/strong>Deltagandet i vetenskapliga konferenser \u00e4r forskarens vardagsliv. Det var dags att \u00e5ka till Amerika. North American Symposium in Chemical Reaction Engineering (NASCRE) h\u00f6lls i \u00e5r i Houston, Texas. Temat f\u00f6r evenemanget var: <em>Advancing reaction engineering through new materials, unique chemistries and advanced computation<\/em>. Konferensen samlade \u00f6ver 200 deltagare fr\u00e5n m\u00e5nga v\u00e4rldsdelar. Teman f\u00f6r plenar-, pris- och keynote-f\u00f6redragen var mycket v\u00e4l valda, bl.a. separationsteknik f\u00f6r bioraffinaderier (Joan Brennecke, University of Texas Austin), valorisering av lignin \u2013 katalysator- och reaktorplaneringsstrategier (Yuriy Rom\u00e1n-Leshkov fr\u00e5n MIT, Rutherford Aris \u2013 pristagare), ultraljudsteknik i processintensifiering (Tom van Gerven, KU Leuven). Deltagandet fr\u00e5n Europa var relativt begr\u00e4nsat, men av h\u00f6g kvalitet: bl.a. professorerna Guy Marin (Gent universitet), Olaf Deutschmann (Karlsruhe Institut f\u00fcr Technologie), Enrico Tronconi (Politecnico di Milano) deltog aktivt i konferensen. Det prestigefyllda Neal R. Amundson \u2013priset tilldelades professor W. Harmon Ray (University of Wisconsin-Madison) f\u00f6r pionj\u00e4rarbeten i polymerernas reaktionsteknik.<\/p>\n<p>Teknisk kemi och reaktionsteknik vid \u00c5bo Akademi var starkt representerad i konferensen: vi hade fem f\u00f6redrag. Adriana Freites Aguilera h\u00f6ll tv\u00e5 presentationer: <em>Kinetic modeling of a liquid-liquid reaction: epoxidation of oleic acid under conventional heating and microwave irradiation<\/em> och <em>Carbonation of vegetable oils \u2013 a modelling approach<\/em>. Det sistn\u00e4mnda f\u00f6redraget \u00e4r ett resultat av ett samarbetsprojekt mellan \u00c5bo Akademi och Universit\u00e9 Normandie INSA-Rouen. Pasi Tolvanen h\u00f6ll en synnerligen intressant f\u00f6rel\u00e4sning om gas-v\u00e4tskereaktorer med varierande diameter: <em>Variable area bubble column for the chlorination of of glycerol with HCl: a reaction engineering and modelling approach<\/em>. Tapio Salmis f\u00f6rsta f\u00f6redrag ber\u00f6rde matematisk modellering av icke-ideala fasta komponenters reaktivitet: <em>Modelling of non-ideal particles and droplets in fluid-solid and fluid-fluid-solid processes<\/em>. Temat f\u00f6r hans andra f\u00f6redrag var kromatografiska reaktorer \u2013 <em>Modelling of chromatographic reactors<\/em> &#8211; vilket var ett samarbetsprojekt mellan Universit\u00e0 di Napoli \u2019Federico II\u2019. Alla v\u00e5ra f\u00f6redrag v\u00e4ckte stor uppm\u00e4rksamhet och m\u00e5nga fr\u00e5gor st\u00e4lldes \u2013 den amerikanska vetenskapskulturen \u00e4r glad och \u00f6ppen och alltid mottaglig f\u00f6r nya id\u00e9er.<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e5r delegation bes\u00f6kte ocks\u00e5 University of Houston, Chemical Engineering Department. En av giganterna i modern reaktionsteknik, professor Vemuri Balakotaiah fungerade som v\u00e4rd f\u00f6r bes\u00f6ket. Kemiteknikavdelningen i Houston \u00e4r ett av de ledande forskningscentra p\u00e5 reaktionsteknikens omr\u00e5de i USA och globalt k\u00e4nd \u2013Det var ocks\u00e5 givande att byta information om hur utbildningen i chemical engineering \u00e4r organiserad i Houston. Doktorsarbetet \u00e4r kr\u00e4vande och tar i regel fem \u00e5r i anspr\u00e5k.<\/p>\n<p>Tre workshops organiserades i samband med NASCRE 4: Laboratoriereaktorer, simulering av katalytiska reaktorer samt kvinnor i teknologi \u2013 l\u00e5t oss bryta gr\u00e4nserna. Man kan gratulera arrang\u00f6rerna f\u00f6r ett lyckat val av teman. Workshoppen var mycket intressanta och de borde ha samlat flera deltagare. I slutet av workshoppet \u2019Kvinnor i teknologi\u2019 ordnades en t\u00e4vling: vem bygger den h\u00f6gsta konstruktionen av spaghetti.<\/p>\n<p>Vi hade en utflykt till Johnson Space Centre (NASA, Houston) och kunde se en \u00e4kta Saturn V \u2013b\u00e4rraket som f\u00f6r 50 \u00e5r sedan f\u00f6rde de f\u00f6rsta m\u00e4nniskorna till m\u00e5nen. Hela det fascinerande Apollo-programmet presenterades i utst\u00e4llningen. Den 20 juli 1969 landade Apollo 11 p\u00e5 m\u00e5nens yta och astronauten Neil Amstrong tog samtalet till Vita huset: <em>Mr President, the Eagle has landed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1488\" style=\"width: 603px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1488\" class=\"wp-image-1488 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/files\/2019\/07\/Salmi_juli_2019_2.png\" alt=\"Tapio Salmi, Adriana Freites Aguilera och Pasi Tolvanen\" width=\"593\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/files\/2019\/07\/Salmi_juli_2019_2.png 593w, https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/files\/2019\/07\/Salmi_juli_2019_2-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bes\u00f6k till University of Houston Campus (fr. v.) Tapio Salmi, Adriana Freites Aguilera, Pasi Tolvanen.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1487\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1487\" class=\"wp-image-1487 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/files\/2019\/07\/Salmi_juli_2019_1.png\" alt=\"Tapio Salmi\" width=\"585\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/files\/2019\/07\/Salmi_juli_2019_1.png 585w, https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/files\/2019\/07\/Salmi_juli_2019_1-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bes\u00f6k till Johnson Space Center Houston \u2013 diskussion om Apollo 11 \u2013missionen i juli 1969.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Glad forts\u00e4ttning p\u00e5 sommaren!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tapio Salmi<br \/>\nSkribenten \u00e4r akademiprofessor (FA) och forskar i kemisk reaktionsteknik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deltagandet i vetenskapliga konferenser \u00e4r forskarens vardagsliv. Det var dags att \u00e5ka till Amerika. North American Symposium in Chemical Reaction Engineering (NASCRE) h\u00f6lls i \u00e5r i Houston, Texas. Temat f\u00f6r evenemanget var: Advancing reaction engineering through new materials, unique chemistries and advanced computation. Konferensen samlade \u00f6ver 200 deltagare fr\u00e5n m\u00e5nga v\u00e4rldsdelar. Teman f\u00f6r plenar-, pris- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[157,156],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forskarbloggare","tag-houston","tag-konferens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/personalbloggen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}