THE
ESCAPE SERIES
This European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering
(ESCAPE) is the twentieth event of a series, started in Elsinore Denmark in
1992, of annual Symposia promoted by the Working Party "Computer Aided
Process Engineering (CAPE)" belonging to the "European Federation
of Chemical Engineering (EFCE)".
However,
it must be acknowledged that the ESCAPE series emerged from a strong tradition
of the Working Party dating back to 1968 when the first event on computer applications
was organized in Tutzing, Germany.
Twenty-three such symposia were then organized in almost a dozen European countries
before a new departure of the Working Party with the ESCAPE series.
Therefore, ESCAPE-20 is the 43rd event of the CAPE Working Party, which will
be held in Ischia, Italy from June 6 to 9, 2010.
The most recent symposia were organized in Romania, Bucharest 2007 (ESCAPE 17),
France, Lyon 2008 (ESCAPE-18) and Poland, Cracow 2009 (ESCAPE-19).
ESCAPE-20
is organized by AIDIC, the Italian Association of Chemical Engineering, a member
society of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering.
The series serves as a forum for engineers, scientists, researchers, managers
and students from academia and industry to present and discuss progress being
made in the area of CAPE. CAPE refers to computer-aided methods, algorithms
and techniques related to process and product engineering.
The ESCAPE-20 scientific program reflects strategic complementary objectives
of the CAPE Working Party: to check the status of historically consolidated
topics by means of their industrial application and to evaluate their emerging
issues. New windows will be open to the CAPE audience by inviting adjacent research
areas to co-operate in the creation of the technical program.