TOPIC | ID | DESCRIPTION |
EDUCATION | ||
ED1 | Innovation Strategy | |
ED2 | Education | |
ED3 | Public Perception | |
ENERGY | ||
EN1 | Energy Saving in the Process Industries | |
EN2 | Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Quality Management Systems | |
EN3 | Carbon Dioxide as a valuable source of carbon for the chemical industry | |
EN4 | Energy and resource efficiency in the chemical and process industry | |
EN5 | Energy conversion, renewable energy and CO2 mitigation | |
EN6 | Waste-Water-Energy nexus | |
EN7 | Chemical engineering for fuels and transportation | |
EN8 | Biofuels and bio-refineries | |
EN9 | Energy storage and electrochemical processes | |
REACTION ENGINEERING | ||
RE1 | Chemical Reaction Engineering | |
RE2 | Chemical Engineering in the Application of Catalysis | |
RE3 | Polymer Reaction Engineering | |
RE4 | Biochemical Reaction Engineering | |
PRODUCTION AND PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS | ||
PP1 | Polymers | |
PP2 | Ceramics | |
PP3 | Metals | |
PP4 | Composites | |
PP5 | Bulk Materials Handling & Processing | |
PARTICLE TECHNOLOGY | ||
PT1 | Filtration and Separation | |
PT2 | Crystallization | |
PT3 | Mechanics and Particulate Solids | |
PT4 | Drying | |
PT5 | Comminution and Classification | |
PT6 | Characterization of Particulate Systems | |
PT7 | Agglomeration | |
PT8 | Particulate solids/solids processing | |
NANOTECHNOLOGY | ||
Nanomaterials production and characterization | ||
NP1 | Advanced nanomaterials production technologies | |
NP2 | Synthesis and degradation of nanocomposites | |
NP3 | Nanomaterials from wastes | |
NP4 | Health and safety applications concerning nanomaterials | |
Nanomaterials development for environmental applications and sustainable energy | ||
ND1 | Nanosensors and bio-nanosensors for environmental characterization and monitoring | |
ND2 | Nanomaterial for fuel cells and microbial fuel cells | |
ND3 | Nano materials for batteries and supercapacitors | |
ND4 | Hydrogen production | |
Nano-based soil, water and wastewater treatment processes | ||
NW1 | Nanoparticles for groundwater treatment | |
NW2 | Nano adsorbent for water and wastewater treatment | |
NW3 | UV, Ozone, Fenton oxidation for wastewater treatment (nano-catalyst and reagents) | |
NW4 | In situ soil oxidation | |
NW5 | Nanomaterials as permeable reactive barriers | |
Nanostructured materials for advanced remediation processes | ||
NM1 | Photocatalysis for air and water treatment | |
NM2 | Nanomaterials for CO2 conversion | |
NM3 | Nanoparticles for pollutant extraction from water and soil | |
Membrane processes for the environment | ||
MP1 | Water and wastewater purification | |
MP2 | Membrane application to biorefinery | |
MP3 | Membrane waste management | |
MP4 | Membrane fouling | |
SEPARATION TECHNOLOGY AND TRANSFER | ||
ST1 | Fluid separations | |
ST2 | High pressure technology | |
ST3 | Membrane separations | |
ST4 | Separation challenges in future fuels | |
ST5 | Green solvents, ionic liquids, biofuels | |
ST6 | CO2 capture | |
ST7 | Integrated, hybrid and novel separations | |
ST8 | Equipment design and revamp | |
ST9 | Process troubleshooting and handling operational problems | |
ST10 | High pressure and high temperature process technology | |
DISTILLATION AND ABSORPTION | ||
DA1 | Basic data and fundamental principles | |
DA2 | Carbon capture and absorption | |
DA3 | Conceptual process design and Life Cycle Analysis | |
DA4 | Modelling and simulation | |
DA5 | Control, operation, troubleshooting and manufacturing excellence | |
DA6 | Reactive and hybrid separations | |
DA7 | Emerging separations and technologies | |
DA8 | Fine chemicals, pharma and bio based processes | |
DA9 | Equipment design | |
DA10 | Energy efficiency and technology | |
THERMODYNAMICS AND INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA | ||
TH1 | New Approaches, needs and trends | |
TH2 | Industrial use of thermodynamics | |
FLUID MECHANICS AND TRANSPORT PHENOMENA | ||
FM1 | Fundamentals | |
FM2 | Multiphase Flows | |
FM3 | Microfluidics and nanofluidics | |
FM4 | Industrial Applications | |
PROCESS SYSTEM ENGINEERING | ||
PS1 | Off-Line Systems | |
PS2 | On-Line Systems | |
PS3 | Computational & Numerical Solutions Strategies | |
PS4 | Integrated and Multiscale Modelling and Simulation | |
PS5 | Computer Aided Process Engineering for the users, society and education | |
PROCESS INTENSIFICATION | ||
PI1 | Novel Reactors | |
PI2 | Reactive and Hybrid Separations | |
PI3 | Continuous Processing | |
PI4 | Alternative Energy Forms | |
PI5 | Microscale Processes | |
PI6 | Multifunctional Equipment | |
ELECTROCHEMICAL ENGINEERING | ||
EE1 | Electrochemical Reactors | |
EE2 | Industrial Electrochemistry | |
EE3 | Electrochemical Engineering in Environmental Protection | |
EE4 | Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage | |
EE5 | Corrosion Protection Engineering | |
EE6 | Electrochemistry at Nanoscale | |
EE7 | Photochemistry and Electrochemistry | |
PRODUCT DESIGN AND ENGINEERING | ||
DE1 | Micro& Nano-structured Materials | |
DE2 | Self-Assembling Systems | |
DE3 | Relation Product Process | |
DE4 | High Performance Materials | |
SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES | ||
SM1 | Hygiene | |
SM2 | Industrial Ecology | |
SM3 | Scarcity | |
SM4 | Carbon Issues | |
FOOD ENGINEERING | ||
FE1 | Food process intensification / Process and equipment design: emerging novel types of equipments and processing methods miniaturization of process equipments | |
FE2 | Food process intensification / Environmental benefits : energy efficient food processing technologies Waste reduction | |
FE3 | Application of nanoscale science in food processing and packaging | |
FE4 | Advances in food Formulation Technology: Smart and Novel Ingredients Structure Design | |
FE5 | Food Biotechnology and Bioprocesses: micro/minibioreactor design; biodegradable polymers production and processing | |
FE6 | Reaction kinetics in food processes | |
FE7 | Modelling and simulation of food processes and automation in food industry | |
INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY | ||
IB1 | Advanced and innovative technics in industrial biobio-separation, and bio-detection (biosensors) | |
IB2 | Bioresources, Biorefinery and Biomaterials (bio-active compounds, biofuels, fine chemicals) | |
IB3 | Biocatalysis (future microbes and enzymes) | |
IB4 | Advances in immobilisation | |
IB5 | Novel processing (e.g. Microbial fuel cells) | |
IB6 | From small to large (Nano-biotechnology, scale-up/scale down, large-scale production) | |
IB7 | Environmental biotechnology | |
IB8 | Biofilms in industry and biomedicine | |
IB9 | Microalgal Biotechnology | |
ENVIRONMENT | ||
EV1 | Process Development for Sustainable Environment | |
EV2 | Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Protection | |
EV3 | Green House Gases, Emission Trading | |
EV4 | Environmental Remediation | |
EV5 | Carbon Dioxide as a valuable source of carbon for the chemical industry | |
EV6 | Waste processing and waste-to-energy systems | |
EV7 | Technological innovation for water management in the urban and industrial context | |
EV8 | Soil remediation | |
LOSS PREVENTION AND SAFETY | ||
COMBUSTION SAFETY | ||
CS1 | Analysis, prevention, protection and mitigation of gas, vapor and dust explosion | |
CS2 | Accidental fires (large-scale, building fires, forest fires, fire prevention) | |
CS3 | emerging safety Issues of innovative fuels | |
CHEMICAL AND PROCESS HAZARDS | ||
CH1 | Hazards of chemical substances | |
CH2 | Process runaway and stability of Reactors | |
CH3 | scale-up of Reactive Processes | |
CH4 | Environmental safety and occupational health | |
RISK AND HAZARD ANALYSIS | ||
RH1 | Hazard identification, risk assessment, multi-risk and multi-hazard analysis | |
RH2 | Models and experiments for the Analysis of accident consequences | |
RH3 | External Hazard factors and security Issues | |
RH4 | NaTech scenarios and influence of natural Hazards | |
HUMAN FACTORS AND SAFETY CULTURE | ||
HF1 | Human error | |
HF2 | safety culture and Education | |
HF3 | Risk Perception and communication | |
HSE MANAGEMENT, RISK GOVERNANCE AND REGULATIONS | ||
HS1 | Emergency planning and Emergency exposure | |
HS2 | HSE management systems | |
HS3 | Seveso Directive: Applications and experiences | |
HS4 | ATEX and PED related Issues | |
FORENSIC ENGINEERING AND ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION | ||
FA1 | Analytical and Computational methods in forensic investigation | |
FA2 | accident investigation and case-studies | |
FA3 | Learning from accidents | |
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT FOR SAFETY AND SUSTAINABILITY | ||
PD1 | Life-cycle approach to sustainability | |
PD2 | Process integration and Green Engineering | |
PD3 | Inherent safer Processes and Performance indicators | |
PD4 | Environmental Impact Assessment and Integrated Pollution Prevention Control | |
SAFETY OF ENERGY SYSTEMS | ||
SE1 | safety in the oil & gas industry including the LNG and CNG supply chains | |
SE2 | safety in nuclear energy production | |
SE3 | safety of energy transportation infrastructures and of renewable sources | |
SAFETY OF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS | ||
ST1 | safety in the land transportation of hazardous Materials | |
ST2 | Risk Analysis and Risk Assessment | |
ST3 | safety in water transportation of hazardous Materials | |
SECURITY ISSUES IN THE CHEMICAL AND PROCESS INDUSTRY | ||
SI1 | security Vulnerability Analysis and security Risk Assessment | |
SI2 | Physical and cyber security of industrial installations | |
SI3 | safety and security synergies | |
BIOMASS | ||
Biomass Conversion Analysis | ||
BC1 | Solid biofuel Combustion at different scales of application | |
BC2 | Pyrolysis, Torrefaction, Carbonisation and Char production | |
BC3 | Gasification for Syngas production and Power | |
BC4 | Bio from Digestion | |
BC5 | Lignocellulosic ethanol, biomass fermentation | |
BC6 | Bio to (combined) Refineries | |
BC7 | Biofuel kinetics and pollutant formation | |
Biomass Processes | ||
BP1 | Production of solid biofules and feedstock charaterization | |
BP2 | Biodisel, jet fuels production from oil-based fuels and chemicals from Syngas | |
BP3 | Technologies for feedstock supply: chipping, pelletising, briqueting | |
BP4 | Innovative processes from waste | |
BP5 | Anaerobic digestion processes | |
BP6 | Algae production and processing | |
Biomass Resources | ||
BR1 | Innnovative use of wastes | |
BR2 | Residue from agriculture and harvesting | |
BR3 | Algae cultivation and supply chain | |
BR4 | Biomasses from dedicated bioenergy crops | |
Biomass Policies | ||
BO1 | Life cycle and supply chain | |
BO2 | Sustainability and impact with environment | |
BO3 | Agriculatur global planning and intensification | |
BO4 | Support programmes and strategic goals | |
OLFACTOMETRY | ||
POLICY AND REGULATION | ||
PR1 | Regulatory approaches | |
PR2 | Evaluation of exposure levels and acceptability criteria | |
PR3 | Management of odour complaints | |
PR4 | Measurement accuracy and repeatability | |
VOC and Odour sampling | ||
VO1 | Sampling materials and strategies | |
VO2 | Sample storage | |
VO3 | Surface sampling | |
EMISSION & EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT | ||
EM1 | Olfactometry (determination of odour concentration, intensity or hedonic tone) | |
EM2 | Chemical analysis | |
EM3 | Other assessment techniques (e.g., Electronic noses, GC-O) | |
EM4 | Dispersion modelling | |
EM5 | Field inspection and field measurements | |
EM6 | Questioning | |
EM7 | Emission inventories (EFs, OEFs) | |
ELECTRONIC NOSE FOR ODOUR MEASUREMENT | ||
NO1 | Standardization approaches (CEN TC 264 WG41) | |
NO2 | Medical/ health applications | |
NO3 | Food applications | |
NO4 | Environment & safety applications | |
NO5 | Indoor air quality evaluation | |
OTHER APPLICATIONS OF ODOUR MEASUREMENT | ||
OP1 | Odour testing for specific products and applications | |
OP2 | Determination of odour thresholds | |
OP3 | Medical diagnosis | |
ODOUR CONTROL AND ABATEMENT TECHNIQUES | ||
OC1 | Process control for odour minimization | |
OC2 | Biological treatments | |
OC3 | Other abatement systems | |
OC4 | Masking and deodorization |