2009 Volume 42 Issue Supplement. Pages s1-s2
The 20th International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE 20) was held on Sunday 7–Wednesday 10 September 2008. The scientific theme for ISCRE 20, Green Chemical Reaction Engineering for a Sustainable Future—Beyond the Kyoto Protocol, was chosen for a reason that the global environment issues are of great interest of the world and we, chemical reaction engineers, are requested and able to tackle the issues. The venue was Kyoto International Conference Center where the Kyoto Protocol was agreed at the 3rd Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 3) in 1997. The year of 2008 was the first year of the commitment period to reduce the overall emissions of greenhouse gases by at least 5 per cent below 1990 levels.
ISCRE 20 was hosted by the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan (SCEJ) and operated by the SCEJ Divisions of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Energy Engineering, and Environmental Engineering and the Asia–Pacific Chemical Reaction Engineering (APCRE) Working Party. The Japanese Organizing Committee was consisted of 29 chemical reaction engineers of Steering Committee and 17 established scientists and engineers of Advisory Board. The Organizing Committee is grateful to the International Scientific Committee members, 19 members solicited from Asia–Pacific region, 15 members from Europe, and 10 members from the USA, for their great contribution in nominating plenary speakers as well as reviewing the abstracts submitted to the symposium. The Organizing Committee acknowledges Dr. Jan Lerou and Prof. Dan Luss for their kind instruction given to manage the symposium.
Responding to the Call for Papers 374 abstracts were submitted for the presentation from 38 countries and regions worldwide as shown in Figure 1. The submitted abstracts were reviewed by the Scientific Committee and the Organizing Committee members, resulting in the acceptance of 311 papers. Finally 283 papers (76% net acceptance) were presented as 194 oral and 89 poster papers at the meeting. The Organizing Committee took a policy to accept as many oral papers as possible, based on the preference of the contributors. The distribution of oral and poster presentations by topic is shown in Table 1. (See more in PDF)
