Preface of the Brazilian Congress on Chemical Engineering
(COBEQ) 2016
Diana Cristina Silva de Azevedo
1
and Maurıcio Alves da Motta Sobrinho
2
1. Chair of COBEQ 2016, Universidade Federal do Cear a (UFC)
2. Member of the Scientific Committee of COBEQ 2016, Chair of COBEQ 2008, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)
T
he Brazilian Congress on Chemical Engineering (COBEQ) is
a major scientific event in Brazil and Latin America, held
under the auspices of the Brazilian Association of Chemical
Engineering (ABEQ). It dates back to 1976, when a pioneering
team from the University of S~ao Paulo (USP) decided to join
scientists and practitioners from academia and industry working
on Chemical Engineering and related fields. Since then, the event
takes place every two years, shifting venues within the Northeast,
South, and Southeast regions of the country. The Brazilian
Meeting on Chemical Engineering Education (ENBEQ) has been
part of COBEQ since 2012. It is an important national forum for the
discussion of actions and recommendations intended to improve
higher education in Chemical Engineering (ChE) in response to
demands from industry and the global society.
COBEQ has a long-standing tradition of bringing cutting-edge
topics for discussion in ChE and related fields by welcoming
distinguished scientists and educators from the global ChE
community. Past editions of COBEQ have welcomed Scott Fogler
(University of Michigan, USA), Alırio Rodrigues (University of
Porto, Portugal), Jean Claude Charpentier (University of Lorraine,
France), Massimo Morbidelli (ETH, Switzerland), and Philippe
Tanguy (Polytéchnique Montreal, Canada), just to name a few.
The number of attendees and communications has grown steadily
along the years, reaching a maximum of 2500 participants in
COBEQ 2014, held in Florian opolis.
The 21st edition of the conference took place in Fortaleza from
25 to 29 September 2016. It was organized by the Chemical
Engineering Department of the Federal University of Ceara (UFC)
and welcomed around 1400 attendees. There were 17 plenary
lectures, 22 keynote lectures, 3 short courses, and nearly 2000
technical contributions presented in oral and poster sessions. The
conference provided an interesting kaleidoscope of the most recent
advancements in 10 different track areas, namely: Environmental
Engineering and Green Technologies; Separation Engineering and
Thermodynamics; Materials Engineering and Thermodynamics;
Chemical Reaction Engineering and Catalysis; Food Science
and Engineering; Transport Phenomena and Particulate Systems;
Biotechnology; Modelling, Simulation and Control; Energy, Petro-
leum, Gas and Biofuels; and Chem. Eng. Education. For the first time,
ENBEQ was completely embedded in the conference program and
two of the plenary lectures dealt with motivating topics in Chem.
Eng. education: Teaching Chemical Product Design, by Edward
Cussler (University of Minnesota, USA) and Entrepreneurship and
Innovation, by Roger-Marc Nicoud (YPSO FACTO, France).
This special section dedicated to COBEQ 2016 brings an
interesting selection of 10 technical papers that were presented in
the conference.
[1–10]
They were carefully pre-selected by conference
ad hoc reviewers from the abstracts accepted for presentation at the
conference. Then authors were invited to submit an extended version
of their work to The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering.
Although a selection of 10 papers out of 2000 abstracts may not seem
representative, this special section gathers outstanding contributions
within the frame of 7 out of the 10 track areas of the conference,
coming from leading universities in Chemical Engineering in Brazil.
They will definitely provide the reader with a flavour of the science of
Chemical Engineering currently under development in the country.
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2017 Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering
DOI 10.1002/cjce.23031
Published online in Wiley Online Library
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