VIII IBEROAMERICAN CONFERENCE ON PHASE EQUILIBRIA AND FLUID PROPERTIES FOR PROCESS DESIGN – EQUIFASE 2009
In April 1983, the third International Conference on Fluid Properties and Phase Equilibria for Chemical Process Design took place in Callaway Gardens, Georgia, USA. This event stimulated the Latinoamerican participants to organize an International Course on the Thermodynamics of Phase Equilibria in Bahía Blanca (Argentine), in July 1984. This course was delivered by an outstanding group of professors: Bob Heidemann, Helmut Knapp, Hendrick Van Ness, Juan Vera, Aage Fredenslund and Peter Rasmussen. This course of 1984 brought a large number of participants from industry and universities, giving the chance to program scientific and technical interchange activities in the field of vapor–liquid equilibrium for process design. This was the first step for the series of EQUIFASE Conferences reported below, being held periodically:
EQUIFASE 1987: |
Concepción, Chile |
EQUIFASE 1990: |
Salvador de Bahía, Brazil |
EQUIFASE 1992: |
Oaxaca, México |
EQUIFASE 1995: |
Caracas, Venezuela |
EQUIFASE 1999: |
Vigo, Spain |
EQUIFASE 2002: |
Foz de Iguaçu, Brazil + Argentine |
EQUIFASE 2006: |
Morelia, Mexico |
EQUIFASE 2009 |
Praia da Rocha, Portugal |
The general purpose of the EQUIFASE Conference is to promote the Scientific and Technologic exchange between people from both the academic and the industrial environment from The European and American Continents in the field of Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamic Properties for the Design of Chemical Processes. The main topics of this Conference are related to measurement, modeling, prediction and simulation of physical–chemical properties concerning product and process design (involving oil and gas, petrochemicals, polymeric chemicals, food, bio- and nanocompounds, as well as sustainability of chemical processes and energy production/storage).
So, new worlds will be shown to the world of Thermodynamics, from the very same place where more than 500 years ago the Portuguese Navigators showed "New worlds to the World" (Luís V. de Camões: Os Lusíadas, canto II, 45).