Venue

The IX Argentinean Congress of Chemical Engineering, CAIQ2017, will be held within the Scientific and Technologic Center from CONICET, Camino La Carrindanga Km7, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.

The Scientific and Technologic Center is located 20 minutes from downtown Bahía Blanca and 10 minutes away from Bahia Blanca´s airport.

Transportation from the hotels in Bahía Blanca to the congress venue will be available during the conference.

Topics

• 1. Chemical Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals

  01a Thermodynamics
  01b Heat and Mass Transfer
  01c Separation Processes
  01d Fluid Mechanics and Transport Phenomena. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

• 2. Reaction Engineering, Kinetics and Catalysis

  02a Chemical Reactors and Photoreactors
  02b Polimerization Processes
  02c Catalytic Processes (Petrochemical, Environmental, Green Chemistry, etc.)
  02d Electrochemical Processes. Corrosion
  02e Biocatalysis and Biotransformations

• 3. Process Systems Engineering

  03a Process and Product Design/Synthesis
  03b Modeling, Simulation and Optimization
  03c Process Monitoring and Control
  03d Scheduling, Planning and Supply Chain
  03e Multi-scale Systems Engineering
  03f Energy, Food, Water Nexus
  03g Applications of Systems Engineering in Energy, Healthcare, Pharma, etc.

• 4. Industrial Biotechnology and Bioeconomy

  04a Bioprocess Engineering
  04b Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology
  04c Bio-based Economy: Biorefineries
  04d Biofuels

• 5. Food Science and Technology

  05a Food Biotechnology and Bioprocesses
  05b Food Quality, Packaging and Storing
  05c Food Industry and Agroindustry

• 6. Conventional and Non-conventional Energy

  06a Conventional and Non-conventional Oil and Gas
  06b Renewable Energy. Hydrogen. Fuel Cells
  06c Wind, Solar, Nuclear and Hydroelectrical Energy

• 7. Materials and Nanotechnology

  07a Ceramics, Hybrid Materials, Polymers
  07b Nanotechnology. Nanomaterials. Development and Applications
  07c Biomaterials
  07d Particle Technology
  07e Industrial Applications
  07f Other Materials

• 8. Process Industry

  08a Chemical and Petrochemical
  08b Oil and Gas Production and Refining
  08c Pharmaceutical Industry
  08d Paper, Steel, Nuclear Industry

• 9. Chemical and Food Engineering Education/Training

  09a Chemical Engineering/Food Engineering Curriculum
  09b e-Learning and e-Assessment
  09c Teaching Engineering Design, Safety and Sustainability
  09d Laboratories and Internships

• 10. Industrial Process Safety

  10a Management Systems, Best Practices, Evaluation and Performance Metrics
  10b Risk Evaluation Techniques, HAZOP, LOPA. Consequences Modeling
  10c Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)
  10d Fire and Explosions. Risk Reduction Strategies
  10e Mechanical Integrity and Facilities Reliability

• 11. Environmental and Sustainable Chemical Engineering

  11a Environmental Management
  11b Soil Remediation, Air Pollution Control and Water Management
  11c Process lntensification
  11d Clean and Emerging Processes
  11e Waste Reduction and Valorization
  11f Life Cycle Analysis
  11g Solid, Liquid and Gaseous Effluents

• 12. Conceptual, Basic and Detailed Engineering. Project Management

  12a Conceptual, Basic and Detailed Engineering
  12b Business and Project Management

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