Scope of the Technical Program for the 20th NAM

The 20th NAM orga­ni­za­tion announces scope of their tech­ni­cal pro­gram. There will be at least three ple­nary lec­tures, keynote pre­sen­ta­tions in all ses­sions, six par­al­lel oral ses­sions and poster ses­sions. Abstract sub­mis­sion begins on August 21, 2006 through 20NAM​.org. Details will be for­com­ing on their web site. Papers deal­ing with orig­i­nal exper­i­men­tal or the­o­ret­i­cal catal­y­sis research in the fol­low­ing, non-lim­it­ing, list of top­ics is encour­aged:

  • High through­put catal­y­sis
    • reac­tors, mate­r­i­al syn­the­sis, exper­i­men­tal design, data min­ing and analy­sis
  • Nov­el char­ac­ter­i­za­tion tech­niques
    • spec­troscopy, sur­face sci­ence, iso­tope switch­ing, microscopy, tomog­ra­phy
  • New cat­alyt­ic mate­ri­als and sup­ports
    • nan­otech­nol­o­gy, meso­porous mate­ri­als, zeo­lites, inor­gan­ic sup­ports
  • Cat­alyt­ic tech­nol­o­gy for pro­tec­tion of the envi­ron­ment
    • emis­sion con­trol, use of alter­nate feed­stocks, pho­to­catal­y­sis, elec­tro­catal­y­sis, hydro­gen gen­er­a­tion from non-car­bon sources
  • Homo­ge­neous catal­y­sis
    • organometallics, poly­mer­iza­tion, bio­mimet­ics, ion­ic liq­uids and oth­er nov­el reac­tion media, chi­ral syn­the­sis
  • Cat­a­lyst deac­ti­va­tion, regen­er­a­tion and dis­po­si­tion
    • mech­a­nisms, chem­istry and process­es, met­al recov­ery, dis­pos­al of used cat­a­lysts
  • Syn­gas con­ver­sion
    • GTL, GTO, CTL, BTL
  • Hydropro­cess­ing
    • HDS, HDN, aro­mat­ic hydro­gena­tion
  • Heavy feed con­ver­sion
    • FCC, hydro­c­rack­ing, lubes, coal, shale oil
  • Catal­y­sis for chem­i­cals and spe­cial­ty prod­ucts
    • olefin pro­duc­tion, poly­mers, oxy­genates, chi­ral syn­the­sis
  • Hydro­gen and syn­gas gen­er­a­tion from hydro­car­bons
    • steam and autother­mal reform­ing, par­tial oxi­da­tion
  • Acid-base catal­y­sis
    • nov­el reac­tions and appli­ca­tions
  • Fuel cells
    • mate­ri­als, oper­a­tion, and mech­a­nisms, feed pre­treat­ment tech­nolo­gies
  • Nov­el reac­tors
    • mem­brane, peri­od­ic oper­a­tion, reverse flow, radi­al, micro reac­tors