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Web­site: 2014 Catal­y­sis GRC
 
John R. Regal­b­u­to, Chair
Christo­pher L. Mar­shall, Vice Chair
 

Application Deadline

Appli­ca­tions for this meet­ing must be sub­mit­ted by May 25, 2014. Please apply ear­ly, as some meet­ings become over­sub­scribed (full) before this dead­line. If the meet­ing is over­sub­scribed, it will be stat­ed here. Note: Appli­ca­tions for over­sub­scribed meet­ings will only be con­sid­ered by the Con­fer­ence Chair if more seats become avail­able due to can­cel­la­tions.

Meeting Description

A meet­ing descrip­tion is cur­rent­ly being devel­oped by the Con­fer­ence Chair and will be avail­able by Sep­tem­ber 3, 2013. Please check back for updates.

Preliminary Program

A list of pre­lim­i­nary ses­sion top­ics and speak­ers is cur­rent­ly being devel­oped by the Con­fer­ence Chair and will be avail­able by Decem­ber 3, 2013. Please check back for updates.

 
On behalf of the local orga­niz­ing com­mit­tee and the Inter­na­tion­al Advi­so­ry Board (IAB), we would like to invite you to the 8th Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence on Envi­ron­men­tal Catal­y­sis (ICEC). The ICEC returns to U.S. soil for the first time since 1998. As the 3.5 day event will be held August 24–27, 2014 at the His­toric Grove Park Inn Resort and Spa in beau­ti­ful and scenic Asheville, North Car­oli­na. Cur­rent tech­no­log­i­cal chal­lenges in envi­ron­men­tal catal­y­sis will be pre­sent­ed in 2 ple­nary pre­sen­ta­tions, 3 par­al­lel oral ses­sion and 2 poster ses­sions.

The Sci­en­tif­ic Pro­gramme of ICEC 2014 will be orga­nized around fol­low­ing main top­ics:

Sus­tain­able and clean ener­gy pro­duc­tion

• Bio-fuel catal­y­sis
• Fuel cells, elec­trolyz­ers and solar fuels
• Fuel reform­ing
• Cat­alyt­ic com­bus­tion

Emis­sion Con­trol

• Mobile and Sta­tion­ary source emis­sions
• TWC, Lean de-NOx, and de-Soot
• Low tem­per­a­ture exhaust appli­ca­tions

Indoor air clean­ing

• VOCs, PAH, adsorp­tion

Water Treat­ment

• Non-biode­grad­able organ­ic oxi­da­tion
• Nitrates reduc­tion
• Sludge removal

Green Chem­istry

• Bio­mass to chem­i­cals
• CO2 val­oriza­tion
• Envi­ron­­men­­tal­­ly-friend­­ly cat­alyt­ic process­es

 
TIMELINE

• Novem­ber 2013 — Call for papers, Sub­mis­sion plat­form opens
• Jan­u­ary 2014 — Abstract sub­mis­sion dead­line
• April 2014 — Noti­fi­ca­tion of accep­tance
• May 2014 — Ear­ly bird reg­is­tra­tion dead­line
• July 2014 — Sci­en­tif­ic pro­gram avail­able
• August 24–27, 2014 — 8th ICEC in Asheville, NC USA