NSF Org:	CBET Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
Recipient:	CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date:	April 24, 2009
Latest Amendment Date:	April 24, 2009
Award Number:	0917447
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Maria Burka CBET  Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ENG  Directorate for Engineering
Start Date:	August 1, 2009
End Date:	July 31, 2010 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$22,500.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$22,500.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2009 = $22,500.00
History of Investigator:	Lorenz Biegler (Principal Investigator) lb01@andrew.cmu.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	Carnegie-Mellon University 5000 FORBES AVE PITTSBURGH PA  US  15213-3815 (412)268-8746
Sponsor Congressional District:	12
Primary Place of Performance:	Carnegie-Mellon University 5000 FORBES AVE PITTSBURGH PA  US  15213-3815
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	12
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	U3NKNFLNQ613
Parent UEI:	U3NKNFLNQ613
NSF Program(s):	Proc Sys, Reac Eng & Mol Therm
Primary Program Source:	01000910DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s):	0000, 050E, OTHR
Program Element Code(s):	140300
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.041

ABSTRACT

0917447
Biegler

Intellectual Merit:

This is a travel grant for 30 U.S. chemical engineering junior-level academics (graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and assistant professors) to participate in Process Systems Engineering Conference (PSE 2009), August, 16-20, 2009 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The budgeted allocation of $750 per person is for partial airfare or registration fee support. The special focus of the PSE 2009 is Sustainability, Energy and Engineering. PSE 2009 is the tenth in the triennial series of international conferences on process systems engineering initiated in 1982. The PSE conferences are the premier meetings for process systems engineering, encompassing the areas of process design, control and operations. Previous venues for these meetings include Keystone, Colorado, USA (2000), Kunming, China (2003) and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (2006). The purpose of the meeting is to bring together the worldwide PSE community of researchers and practitioners who are involved in the creation and application of computing-based methodologies for planning, design, operation, control and maintenance of chemical, petrochemical and biological process industries.

Broader Impact:

The special focus of PSE 2009 is on the topic of how these PSE methods and tools can support sustainable resource systems and emerging technologies in the areas of green engineering, i.e., the environmentally conscious and energy efficient design and operation of these processes.

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