We are pleased to announce the 7th Green Chemistry Conference which will be held in Barcelona on November, 12-13, 2007. The Conference is aimed at presenting important results of the international effort for the discovery of environmentally benign chemical products and processes and their industrial application, with special attention to renewable feedstocks and their industrial application.
The uncertain evolution of oil price over the next decade coupled with the increasing availability of large quantities of cheap feedstocks from renewable origin is triggering a wave of interest towards the use of renewable feedstocks for the manufacture of a wide range of chemical substances including solvents, polymers, biolubricants, biofuels, surfactants, dispersants, colorants, explosives, and many chemical intermediates.
Besides this tactical interest, it is clear that, on a strategic ground, attaining the knowledge for efficiently transforming biomass into the existing functional products is of paramount importance. The formidable research challenges implicit in such a strategy are starting to be addressed by a group of researchers by developing the necessary tools needed by the organic chemical industry in its effort to sustain our chemical civilization in the long term. It is also clear that the lifetime for science and technology development for the massive use of renewable sources should be significantly shorter than the time to the worst possible scenario: the exhaustion of fossil resources.
The Conference aims to contribute to increase our present level of chemical, biochemical and engineering knowledge required for this purpose which is still immature or even non existent in certain areas. Equally important is how do we transform research achievements into commercial realities. In this regard, innovation policies linking science with industrial application will be critical for creating a good ground for new and better performing, less toxic commercial products made attainable from biomaterials.
Biomass sources
Ligno-cellulosic materials have proved their potential as source of industrial production of commodity, or specialty chemicals or materials, through microbial, chemical or combined methods. But improved procedures and new targets are urgently needed. It is amply acknowledged that yields of processes that use plant materials for commodity chemicals or fuels, such as ethanol, are very poor.
Conversion processes: Thermochemical, Chemical, Biotechnological
Development of biorefineries is hampered by the rudimentary state of the scientific and technologic knowledge required for they to become technically and economically competitive. Chemistry, Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering must meet here new challenges.
Chemicals: Bulk chemicals, Specialties, Pharmaceuticals
Conveniently selected renewable biomass materials are very promising in order to attain easier and more convenient and economical ways to better specialty products. These are certainly structurally closer to substances of plant origin than to oil hydrocarbons, especially when chiral structures are implied.
Materials: Biodegradable plastics
New easily biodegradable or recyclable products are widely demanded, especially for plastics.
Health, Safety and Environmental Issues
Global warming caused by the increased atmospheric CO2 concentration is one of the most serious problems ever met by humanity. Some of the measures which have been considered in order to reduce emissions consist in the sequestration of CO2 from combustion gases. Could the chemical industry become a significant CO2 sink? How could CO2 become an economical source of useful chemicals and materials?
Ramón Mestres
President of Red Española de Química Sostenible
Joan Bladé
Grupo Urquima-Uriach. Spain
Avelino Corma.
Instituto de Tecnología Química . Spain
Carles Estévez
IUCT. Spain
Paul Anastas
Centrer for Green Chemistry & Green Engieenring at Yale. USA.
Antonio de la Hoz
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Spain
Jose Antonio Mayoral
Universidad de Zaragoza. Spain
Victor Martínez Merino
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Spain
Rainer Höfer
COGNIS. Spain
Yves Robin
ISOCHEM. France
The Organising Committee encourages you to present an abstract in English (maximum 3 pages A4) for poster presentation.
All contributed abstracts must be submitted electronically using to the following e-mail address: green-chem@iuct.net
The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 19, 2007.
VENUE AND DATES
Auditori del Parc Científic de Barcelona
Address:
Parc Científic de Barcelona
Baldiri Reixac, 4-6
08028 BARCELONA
ACCOMMODATION
Participants are responsible for making their own hotel reservations. See the link below for searching hotels in Barcelona.
Alternatively you may wish to stay at Residència d’Investigadors, a university residence that provides lodging for professors and researchers during their stay in Barcelona.
www.residencia-investigadors.es
investigadors@resa.es
REGISTRATION & FEES
You will find the on-line registration form clicking here. Please, fill out the registration form and send it to green-chem@iuct.net.
REGISTRATION FEES:* |
Before October, 12th |
After October, 12th |
Regular |
395 Euro |
475 Euro |
RedQS Members |
275 Euro |
330 Euro |
Students |
225 Euro |
270 Euro |
* Conference fee includes: conference materials, coffee-break and lunch.
CONTACT ADDRESS
IUCT. The Green Chemistry Institute of Spain
E-mail: green-chem@iuct.net
www.iuct.net / www.iuct.com
Phone: +34 93 579 34 32 Fax: +34 93 570 57 45
Academic Researchers
John Warner. The Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry. United States.
Alexei Lapkin. University of Bath. United Kingdom.
Michele Aresta. University of Bari. Italy.
Jean-Cristophe Plaquevent. Université Paul Sabatier. France.
Pierre Gallezot. Institut des Researches sur la Catalyse. CNRS. France.
Mª Rosa Infante. IIQAB-CSIC. Spain.
Jorge Gálvez. Universitat de València. Spain.
Alain Adjemian. European Commission.
Industrial Researchers
COGNIS. Representative. Germany. TO CONFIRM
ENERGEA. Representative. Switzerland.
BIOLAB. Representative. Italy. TO CONFIRM
IUCT. Representative. Spain.
ISOCHEM. Representative. France. TO CONFIRM
Welcome to the conference
Conference Topics
Scientific & Honor Committee
Program & Abstracts
Poster Session
Confirmed Speakers
General Information
Sponsors
On-line Get-together
On-line Get-together
You may wish to introduce yourself or tell other conference participants who are you, where you work and what are your research interests in a informal way. Post your text (no more than 200 words) in this section and optionally your picture by sending a word document with your information including a contact e-mail address to green-chem@iuct.net titled On-line Get-together.