Program Pan American Workshop on Collaboration in Chemical Engineering
Rio de Janeiro, August 3-5, 1998

Sunday Evening August 2
Registration 5:30 -7:00 p.m. (Workshop Secretariat at 26th.floor)
Official opening ceremony and cocktail reception 7-9 p.m.

Monday, August 3
Morning Session 8:30 -12:30
Opening remarks and overview of the Workshop 8:30 - 9:00

Panel 1:
Separation, thermodynamics, and interfacial science 9:00-10:30
Co-chairs: B. Krantz (USA), D.T. Wasan (USA) and C.Habert (Brazil)
Speakers: Mittal (USA), Eykamp (USA) and Castier (Brazil)

coffee break

Panel 2:
Catalysis and reaction engineering 11:00 -12:30
Co-chairs: D. Resasco (USA), C. Apesteguia (Argentina), M.Schmal (Brazil)
Speakers: Oyama (USA), Weber (A.D. Little -USA), M. Schmal (Brazil),
A. Abichara (Oxiteno)

Afternoon Session

Panel A:
Existing mechanisms of cooperation 2:00-3:30 PM
Speakers: R.Wellek (NSF), C. Faria (CNPq), J.Weisz (FINEP), and R.Blessing
And M.A. Rocha (Fullbright Commission), and G.V. Reklaitis (CCR).

Participants break in the 4 Working Groups, meeting 3:30-5:30 PM

Working Group 1: Separation, thermodynamics, and interfacial science
Working Group 2: Catalysis and reaction engineering
Working Group 3: Process Systems Engineering
Working Group 4: Biotechnology

Plenary Session: preliminary presentations from the working groups 6:00-7:00 PM

Dinning out, Social Event of the Workshop, 8:30 - 11 p.m.

Tuesday, August 4
Morning session 9:00-12:30

Panel 3:
Process Systems Engineering 9:00-10:30
Co-chairs: I.Grossmann (USA) and J. Cerda (Argentina)
Speakers: J.Cerda (Argentina), I.Grossmann (USA), George Stephanopoulos(USA) and R.Maciel (Brazil)

Coffee-Break

Panel 4:
Biotechnology 11:00- 12:30
Co-chairs: W.Schmidell (Brazil, T. Papoutsakis (USA)) and J.Asenjo (Chile)
Speakers: J.Asenjo (Chile), D. Wittrup (USA) and A. Bonomi (Brazil)

Afternoon session

Panel B:
Industry and international collaboration with academia 2:00-3:30
Norberto Lemcoff (BOC), Robert Weber (ADLittle), F. Baratelli (Petrobras), Diego Echegary (WhiteMartins/Praxair).

Continuation of working groups’ discussions 3:30-5:30
(Refreshments in meeting rooms)

Coffee-break

Plenary presentation of discussions from the working groups 6:00-7:00

Working group co-chairs will assemble to prepare summary reports on their discussions. (9pm- 11pm)

Wednesday, August 5
Plenary session to discuss draft reports from the working groups 9:00-10:00

Official closing of the Workshop 11:00 am

Meeting of co-chairs to assemble draft report of the workshop (1 p.m. – 4 p.m.)