Web­site: 11th Inter­na­tion­al Sym­po­sium: PREPA 11
 
It has become a tra­di­tion that every four years, the Uni­ver­sité catholique de Lou­vain and the Katholieke Uni­ver­siteit Leu­ven joint­ly orga­nize a sym­po­sium devot­ed to the sci­en­tif­ic bases for the prepa­ra­tion of het­ero­ge­neous cat­a­lysts. These meet­ings bring togeth­er researchers from acad­e­mia and indus­try and offer a forum for dis­cus­sions on the chem­istry involved in the prepa­ra­tion of indus­tri­al het­ero­ge­neous cat­a­lysts.
We cor­dial­ly invite all sci­en­tists active in the field of het­ero­ge­neous catal­y­sis to par­tic­i­pate in the 11th Inter­na­tion­al Sym­po­sium on Sci­en­tif­ic Bases for the Prepa­ra­tion of Het­ero­ge­neous Cat­a­lysts.

The sci­en­tif­ic pro­gram will con­sist of invit­ed lec­tures, oral and poster pre­sen­ta­tions.

Con­tri­bu­tions are solicit­ed that focus on the aspects of cat­a­lyst prepa­ra­tion. Reports on physi­co-chem­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics of cat­a­lysts and cat­alyt­ic per­for­mances should be lim­it­ed to cor­re­la­tions with the prepa­ra­tion para­me­ters.

Papers will be select­ed by a sci­en­tif­ic com­mit­tee, con­sist­ing of rep­re­sen­ta­tives from indus­try of catal­y­sis (man­u­fac­tur­ers and users), based on the sci­en­tif­ic val­ue of the abstract, nov­el­ty and the com­pli­ance of the sub­ject to the sym­po­sium top­ics.

Main Topics

• Inno­v­a­tive approach­es in cat­a­lyst prepa­ra­tion for spe­cif­ic per­for­mances and pur­pos­es
• Advanced prepa­ra­tions of cat­a­lysts and sup­ports
• Key con­cepts and tools in cat­a­lyst prepa­ra­tion

 
Web­site: http://​conf​.nsc​.ru/​C​R​S-2
 
The sci­en­tif­ic pro­gram will com­prise ple­nary invit­ed lec­tures, key-note pre­sen­ta­tions, oral pre­sen­ta­tions and posters.

Scientific trends of the conference

• Cat­alyt­ic process­es for valu­ables pro­duc­tion from bio­mass
• Cat­a­lyst appli­ca­tion for clean syn-gas and clean hydro­gen pro­duc­tion, pow­er and CHP via bio­mass gasi­fi­ca­tion
• Catal­y­sis in com­bus­tion and co-com­bus­tion of renew­able sources
• Cat­alyt­ic inter­ester­i­fi­ca­tion and hydro­c­rack­ing of lipids to bio­fu­el
• Cat­alyt­ic approach to pro­duc­tion of bio­fu­els via bio­mass pyrol­y­sis
• Bio­catal­y­sis: Fer­men­ta­tion and enzy­mat­ic process­es for bio­fu­els pro­duc­tion

The Orga­niz­ing Com­mit­tee plans to offer the par­tic­i­pants the vis­its to the pow­er plants, as well as the objects on pro­duc­tion and obtain­ing of the bio­log­i­cal mate­ri­als, the prod­ucts of fine and organ­ic syn­the­sis from renew­able raw mate­ri­als dur­ing the con­fer­ence and post-con­fer­ence peri­od.

The offi­cial lan­guage of the con­fer­ence is Eng­lish.