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ECCE-6: European Chemical Engineering Conference 2007

16-21 September 2007

Organizations Involved

• EFCE

• IDA, Danish Engineering Society

• Technical University of Denmark

• Department of Chemical Engineering

• Wonderful Copenhagen

Conference Venue:

Bella Center

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ORGANIZATIONAL TASK Deadlines

• 2004 (February-March 2005)

• Organization Committee

• Professional Congress Organizer

• Scientific Program Themes

• Scientific Committee (theme coordinators)

• 2005 (June): 1st circular & promotion at ESCAPE-15 in Barcelona

• 2005 (July): Promotion at WCCE7 in Glasgow

• 2005 (November): Promotion at AIChE Annual Meeting 2005

• 2006 (May): 2nd circular and Call for papers & promotion at CHISA2006

• 2006 (November): deadline for submission of abstracts

• 2007 (February): Preliminary scientific program and 3rd circular

• 2007 (April): Final submission of manuscripts

• 2007 (July): Final program on website

• 2007 (September 16-21): ECCE-6

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ECCE-6 Objectives

• Positive picture of Chemical Engineering – for example, ”Chemistry at work for the benefit of society”

• Mutliscale

• Multidispline

• Science-life-engineering

•Highlight latest developments, current trends and future needs

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ORGANIZATIONAL TASK Deadlines

• 2004 (February-March 2005)

• Organization Committee

• Professional Congress Organizer

• Scientific Program Themes

• Scientific Committee (theme coordinators)

Organization Committee (Steering Committee + Core Group)• DTU (Prof K. Dam Johansen & Prof R. Gani)

• IDA representative (Dr. P. Szabo)

• 10 top executives from Danish Industry

• Novozymes, NovoNordisk, Haldor Topose, FL-Schmidt, Statoil, ELSAM, Danisco, Lundbeck, Maersk, Cheminova, ….

• PCO representative (NHG – Mr. Bo Ilskjaer)

• KT representatives (Dr. T. Johannessen, Eva Mikkelsen)

• EFCE representatives (??, ??)

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ORGANIZATIONAL TASK Deadlines

• 2004 (February-March 2005)

• Organization Committee

• Professional Congress Organizer

• Scientific Program Themes

• Scientific Committee (theme coordinators)

Professional Congress Organizer - NHG• Hotel accommodation (reservation, good price, flexibility, ….)

• Tourism (sight seeing, excursions, tours, ….)

• Liaison with Bela Center (congress venue)

• Make sure that everything needed is provided according to agreed contract; manage exhibition area; manage poster session needs, manage & plan lunch & coffee/tea breaks, …..

• Set-up congress website (info, registration, paper submission-review, …)

• Organize congress dinner, free reception given by the Mayor of Copenhagen

• Set-up registration booth during congress, prepare registration package, ….

• Prepare promotional material, booth at Glasgow, design logo, ….

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ORGANIZATIONAL TASK Deadlines

• 2004 (February-March 2005)

• Organization Committee

• Professional Congress Organizer

• Scientific Program Themes

• Scientific Committee (theme coordinators)

Scientific Program Themes• Themes of all EFCE WPS and Sections

• Keywords-topics (education, nanotechnology, multi-scale, multi-discipline, integration-intensification, fundamentals, sustainability, process-product engineering, oil &gas, energy & environment, systems biology, green chemistry, sustainable chemistry, molecular design, PAT, surfaces-interfaces, ……. )

• Keywords-themes

• Sustainable process-product development through green chemistry; Advancing the fundamentals; Multi-scale and/or multi-disciplinary approach in process-product innovation; Systematic methods & tools for managing the complexity; Integrating science-life into engineering; Sustainable chemical engineering education

• Attract chemical, petrochemical, specialty chemical, agrochemical, pharmaceutical, food, bio and oil-gas industries plus software, engineering, consulting, …..industries

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ORGANIZATIONAL TASK Deadlines

• 2004 (February-March 2005)

• Organization Committee

• Professional Congress Organizer

• Scientific Program Themes

• Scientific Committee (theme leaders/coordinators)

Theme Leaders• Keywords-themes

• Sustainable process-product development through green chemistry (NN, Kaj Thomsen)

• Advancing the fundamentals (NN, Peter Glarborg)

• Multi-scale and/or multi-disciplinary approach in process-product innovation (NN, Soren Kiil)

• Systematic methods & tools for managing the complexity (NN, Bogle/Pistikopoulos)

• Integrating science-life into engineering (NN, Soren Hvilsted)

• Sustainable chemical engineering education (M. Molzahn, Jens Abildskov)

• EFCE WP & section chairmen will be invited to be topic coordinators

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

• International Scientific Programming Committee

• The scientific program will be divided into themes and topics, which the theme leaders and topic leaders will put-together.

• A book of extended abstracts plus CD will be published

• Arrangements will be made with different journals to publish special issues on each of the six themes (a selection policy for papers will be setup)

• Technical program will consist of plenary, keynote, oral and poster presentations

• Three and a half day of technical sessions

Papers and participants from the following have been promised: Novozymes, Novonordisk, Haldor Topsoe, Statoil, Lundbeck, Leo-Pharma, GSK, Syngenta, Astra-Zeneca, Bayer, BASF, Processium, Danisco, Fantoft Engineering, …..under discussion: DuPont, ICI, Dow, BP, Schlumberger, Exxon-Mobil, Shell, …..