(Possible) Conference Alert: KACST-Oxford Petrochemicals Forum

“The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one half as much / As intelligent Mr Toad.” -- Kenneth Grahame, (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows

The KACST-Oxford Petrochemicals Forum (http://www.koprcsa.org/) has been staged twice so far … once in 2011, and again in 2012.  I am trying to find out when and where the next Forum will be held.  Until then, here is some information on the Forum.

2nd KACST-Oxford Petrochemicals Forum 2012, held September 9-12, 2012 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Theme: "Sustainability through innovation in the modern petrochemicals industry"

The 1st KACST-Oxford Petrochemical Forum, held at St.Catherine's College, Oxford, UK, July 19th-22nd, 2011
Theme: "Petroleum and Petrochemical Industries: Building the Future in a Sustainable Way"

According to the KOPRC Web …

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KACST-Oxford Petrochemical Research Centre
KACST and the University of Oxford have created a joint research centre called KACST – Oxford Petrochemical Research Centre (KOPRC).

This joint scientific cooperation between KACST and University of Oxford is the first of its type in the Arab world in the refining and petrochemical fields and comes within the strategic plan set by KACST with the aim of transferring and localizing petrochemicals technology in the Kingdom.

The work of the centre is focused on the following areas:
  Developing a solid acid catalyst for alkylation processes
  Developing a process to convert the fossil remains of distillation to olefins
  Developing catalysts to convert carbon dioxide to chemicals
  Simulating the development of materials for selective polymerization processes
  Simulating the development of materials for the process of burning clean fuel
Source: http://www.koprcsa.org/2012/en/Centre.asp
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One of the papers to come out of the Forum is …

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Appl Petrochem Res (2012) 2:69–72, DOI 10.1007/s13203-012-0017-3
Framework flexibility and rational design of new zeolites for catalysis
Asel Sartbaeva
Department of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QR, UK
asel.sartbaeva@chem.ox.ac.uk
Stephen A. Wells
Department of Physics and Centre for Scientific Computing, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
s.a.wells@warwick.ac.uk
Abstract
Zeolite materials have proved very useful as chemical catalysts and the search for new zeolite structures with novel channel and pore shapes is ongoing. We discuss a geometric feature of zeolite frameworks, the flexibility window, which may provide a criterion to identify hypothetical structures which can be synthesised as zeolites. In recent research using data on zeolite frameworks under compression, we show strong links between this geometric feature and the physics of zeolite frameworks.
Free Full Text Source: http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/13/art%253A10.1007%252Fs13203-012-0017-3.pdf?auth66=1363287780_5f38d2bf39258c9c62d65203ad29effb&ext=.pdf
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TODAY’S TIP: Bookmark http://www.koprcsa.org/ and visit it periodically for news of the next occurrence of the event.