2018 9th International Conference on Biology, Environment and Chemistry (ICBEC 2018)

ICBEC 2018 is sponsored by the Hong Kong Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society (HKCBEES). It is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in the fields of Biology, Environment and Chemistry. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving Biology, Environment and Chemistry related techniques.

Topics:

 - Chemical, Environmental, and Process Engineering 
 - Environmental engineering and sustainable development 
 - Process design and optimization 
 - Product innovation, development and economics 
 - Process intensification 
 - Nanotechnology 
 - New materials & structured products 
 - Intelligent polymers 
 - Green organic synthesis routes 
 - Process integration 
 - Environmental engineering & management 
 - Sustainable & clean technologies 
 - SCF as solvent substitutes 

 - Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Fundamentals 
 - Chemical engineering fundamentals
 - Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
 - Chemical engineering educational challenges and development
 - Chemical reaction engineering 
 - Chemical engineering equipment design and process design 
 - Thermodynamics 
 - Catalysis & reaction engineering 
 - Particulate systems 
 - Rheology 
 - Multifase flows 
 - Interfacial & colloidal phenomena 
 - Transport phenomena in porous/granular media 
 - Membranes and membrane science 
 - Crystallization 
 - Distillation, absorption and extraction 
 - Ionic liquids/electrolyte solutions 

 - Multi-scale and/or Multi-disciplinary Approaches 
 - Process system, instrumentation and control 
 - Product engineering and product development 
 - Product design & innovation 
 - Nanomanufacturing 
 - Controlled release of the active ingredient 
 - Energy & nuclear sciences 
 - Energy and environment 
 - CFD & chemical engineering 
 - Food engineering
 - Nanomaterials 
 - Particle technology 
 - Mathematical modeling in chemical engineering
 - Macromolecular Science and Engineering
 - Advanced materials processing

 - Systematic Methods and Tools for Managing the Complexity 
 - Multiscale modeling 
 - Process synthesis & design 
 - Process control & operations 
 - Process Safety Management
 - Supply chain management & business decision support 
 - Advances in computational & numerical methods 
 - Safety & risk management systems 
 - Systems biology 
 - Economics and Business Management 
 - Process Analytical Technology - PAT 
 - Software architecture, standards and interfaces 

 - Integration of Life Sciences & Engineering 
 - Biochemical Engineering 
 - Biotechnology
 - Product Engineering in the Bio Industries 
 - Self-organisation in the Bio-sciences and elsewhere 
 - Delivery of the final product 
 - Biotechnology applied to production of new and better quality food 
 - Physical chemistry and thermodynamics for life sciences and biotechnology 
 - Improvement of environmental remediation processes 
 - Food process technology and engineering 
 - The impact of bio-based polymeric materials
 - Biochemical and bio-molecular engineering 
 - Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 
 - Biological and Medicinal Chemistry
 - Energy and environment 
 - Forest product processing 
 - Milk product processing 

 - Environmental dynamics
 - Meteorology
 - Hydrology
 - Geophysics
 - Atmospheric physics
 - Physical oceanography
 - Global environmental change and ecosystems management
 - Climate and climatic changes
 - Global warming
 - Ozone layer depletion
 - Carbon capture and storage
 - Biofuels
 - Integrated ecosystems management
 - Satellite applications in the environment
 - Environmental restoration and ecological engineering
 - Habitat reconstruction
 - Biodiversity conservation
 - Deforestation
 - Wetlands
 - Landscape degradation and restoration
 - Ground water remediation
 - Soil decontamination
 - Eco-technology
 - Bio-engineering
 - Environmental sustainability
 - Resource management
 - Life cycle analysis
 - Environmental systems approach
 - Renewable sources of energy-energy savings
 - Clean technologies
 - Sustainable cities
 - Health and the Environment
 - Health related organisms
 - Hazardous substances and detection techniques
 - Biodegradation of hazardous substances
 - Toxicity assessment and epidemiological studies
 - Quality guidelines, environmental regulation and monitoring
 - Indoor air pollution 
 - Water resources and river basin management
 - Regulatory practice, water quality objectives standard setting, water quality classification
 - Public participation
 - Economic instruments
 - Modelling and decision support tools
 - Institutional development
 - Transboundary cooperation
 - Management and regulation of point and diffuse pollution
 - Monitoring and analysis of environmental contaminant
 - Ground water management 
 - Wastewater and sludge treatment
 - Nutrients removal
 - Suspended and fixed film biological processes
 - Anaerobic treatment
 - Process modelling
 - Sludge treatment and reuse
 - Fate of hazardous substances
 - Industrial wastewater treatment
 - Advances in biological, physical and chemical processes
 - On site and small scale systems
 - Storm-water management 
 - Air pollution and control
 - Emission sources
 - Atmospheric modelling and numerical prediction
 - Interaction between pollutants
 - Control technologies
 - Air emission trading 
 - Solid waste management
 - Waste minimization
 - Optimization of collection systems
 - Recycling and reuse
 - Waste valorization
 - Technical aspects of treatment and disposal methods (landfilling, thermal treatment etc)
 - Leachate treatment
 - Legal, economic and managerial aspects of solid waste management
 - Management of hazardous solid waste 
 - Water treatment and reclamation
 - Advanced treatment of water and secondary effluents (membranes, adsorption, ion exchange, oxidation etc)
 - Disinfection and disinfection by- products
 - Management of water treatment residuals
 - Aesthetic quality of drinking water (taste, odors)
 - Effect of distribution systems on potable water quality
 - Reuse of reclaimed waters