Rossini and Plenary lectures presented at the 17th IUPAC Conference
on Chemical Thermodynamics (ICCT), Rostock, German, 28 July - 2
August 2002
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Preface
The 17 th IUPAC Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics (ICCT), concurrent
with the Laehnwitz Seminar on Calorimetry, was held 28 July to 2 August
2002 at the University of Rostock, Germany. Professor Andreas Heintz
was Conference Chair, and Prof. Eckhard Vogel was Conference Co-chair
and Secretary. The 520 participants came from over 40 countries.
After the official opening ceremony, the conference began with the
Rossini lecture,
presented by Prof. John Prausnitz, on “Molecular thermodynamics
for biotechnology ”. The conference program consisted of seven
symposia. In symposium 1, Molecular Simulations of Fluids and Statistical
Thermodynamics, Prof. Peter Cummings gave the plenary lecture “Realistic
modeling of industrially relevant systems by molecular simulation ”.
Professors Carlos Vega and Wolffram Schröer delivered invited lectures.
Symposium 2 was Phase Equilibria, Supercritical Mixtures, and Separation
Techniques Including Polymer Systems. Professor Dendy Sloan presented
the plenary lecture “Clathrate hydrate measurements: Microscopic,
mesoscopic, and macroscopic ”, and Dr. Oliver Pfohl and Prof. Walter
Chapman gave invited lectures. In symposium 3, Electrolyte Solutions
and Non-electrolyte Mixtures Including Reactive Chemical Systems, Prof.
Jürgen Gmehling gave the plenary lecture “Potential of group
contribution methods for the prediction of phase equilibria and excess
properties of complex mixtures ”. Professors Natalia Smirnova and
Costas Panayiotou and Dr.Andreas Klamt gave invited lectures. A session
in honor of Josef Barthel was held as part of this symposium, with invited
lectures from Profs. Hitoshi Ohtaki and Myroslav Holovko. Symposium
4, Thermodynamic Properties of New and Advanced Materials including
Pharmaceuticals, had as its plenary lecturer Prof. Manfred Martin, who
spoke on “Materials in thermodynamic potential gradients ”.
Professors Nick Quirke and Mary Anne White were the invited lecturers.
Symposium 5 was Organised Solutions, Surface and Colloid Chemistry.
Professor Håkan Wennerström presented the plenary lecture
“Thermodynamics, surface forces and phase equilibria in organized
systems ”, and Profs. Zoltan Kiraly, Kunimitsu Morishige, and Gordon
Tiddy delivered invited lectures. Symposium 6 was Thermochemistry, Calorimetry,
and Molecular Energetics. The plenary lecture “Quantum aspects
of low temperature properties of solids: A calorimetric study in interaction
with spectroscopy and diffraction ”was presented by Prof. Takasuke
Matsuo, with invited lectures given by Profs. Anthony Beezer and Ingolf
Lamprecht. This symposium included the Laehnwitz seminar on calorimetry,
where invited lectures were given by Profs. Joon-Hee Jeong and Leslie
Allen. Symposium 7 considered Thermodynamics in the Biological Sciences:
Theoretical Aspects and Technical Applications, with Prof.Kazuyuki Akasaka,
the plenary lecturer, speaking on “Exploring the entire conformational
space of proteins by high-pressure NMR ”. Professors Gary Ackers,
Clare Woodward, Attilio Cesàro, and Jose Sanchez-Ruiz gave invited
lectures.
There were three workshops. Dr. Hartmut Brüschke was main lecturer
for the Membrane Workshop on Material and Energy Transport in Dense
Membranes; his lecture was “Thermodynamic and transport properties
for membrane process design ”, and Prof. Johannes Wesselingh gave
an invited lecture. In the Halocarbon Workshop: Third International
Workshop on Thermochemical, Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of
Halogenated Hydrocarbons and Mixtures, Prof. William Wakeham gave themainlecture
entitled “Towards the viscosity of refrigerant/oil mixtures ”,
and Prof. Koichi Watanabe gave an invited lecture. Professor Kenneth
Seddon gave the main lecture “Ionic liquids for green industrial
applications ”in the Workshop on Ionic Liquids: Properties of Ionic
Liquids and their Application in Chemical Engineering. Professor Joan
Brennecke gave an invited lecture.
In addition, there were about 250 oral presentations, spread over the
symposia and workshops, and a roughly equal number of poster presentations,
including posters on educational thermodynamics. The Rossini lecture
and the plenary lectures,with the exception of the papers by Profs.
Sloan [1] and Cummings, are published in this issue.
Selected papers from individual symposia will be published in a special
issue of the Journal of Molecular Liquids (symposium 1, and the
session in honor of Josef Barthel) or Fluid Phase Equilibria (symposium
2 and the halocarbon workshop), or in the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics(symposia
3 and 4), in Thermochimica Acta (symposium 6 and the Laehnwitz
seminar), or in the Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data
(workshop on ionic liquids).
After the previous two weeks of wet weather, the sun shone for the
conference. This change in weather, together with the excellent hospitality,
which included a welcome reception, a concert, a half- day excursion
to Warnemünde, and a banquet, and the high standard of the presentations,
made this a memorable conference. Our thanks are extended to the Conference
Chair and Co-chair and to all members of the Local Organizing Committee,
the International Advisory Committee, and the International Scientific
Program Committee. We are also most grateful to the following institutions
for supporting the conference: IUPAC; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Bonn; Fonds der Chemischen Industrie Frankfurt; Bundesministerium für
Bildung und Forschung Berlin; Hansestadt Rostock; Universität Rostock;
Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
Schwerin; Stadtwerke Rostock AG; Hydro Agri GmbH &Co. KG Rostock;
Ruhrgas AG Essen; Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische
Chemie Frankfurt; Aventis Research and Technologies Frankfurt am Main;
Aventis Pharma AG Frankfurt; Merck KGaA Darmstadt; Roche Diagnostics
GmbH Mannheim; Bayer AG Leverkusen;Degussa AG üsseldorf; Gesellschaft
für Motoren und Kraftanlagen Bad Domeran; Deutsche Bank AG Rostock;
Messer Griesheim GmbH Krefeld; and LII Europe GmbH Frankfurt.
Thermodynamics will continue to be an important area of research for
many years to come, with a wide range of applications from chemical
engineering to the biosciences. We look forward to the presentation
and discussion of the results of further advances in chemical thermodynamics
at the next ICCT, which will take place in Beijing,China in 2004.
REFERENCE
1. E.Dendy Sloan. J.Chem.Thermodyn. 35, 41 (2003).
J.H.
Dymond
Conference Editor
International Scientific Organizing Committee:
A. Heintz (Germany,Chairman ); T. Boublik (Czech Republic); H. Krienke
(Germany); Th.W. de Loos (Netherlands); W. Arlt (Germany); T. Letcher
(South Africa); E. Wilhelm (Austria); G. Maurer (Germany); R. Weir (Canada);
S. Stølen (Norway); G. Olofsson (Sweden); G.H. Findenegg (Germany);
A.L. Smith (USA); G. Wolf (Germany); C. Schick (Germany); R.Goldberg
(USA); H.-J.Hinz (Germany); A.Laesecke (USA); U.K.Deiters (Germany);
J.G.Crespo (Portugal); R.N. Lichtenthaler (Germany); K.N. Marsh (New
Zealand).
National Organizing Committee:
A. Heintz (Chairman ); E. Vogel; E.Bich; J.K. Lehmann; S.P. Verevkin;
U. Hensen; U. Kragl; C. Schick; E. Hassel.
