Traditionally the symposium deals with all aspects of solubility: in and between solids, liquids and gases; new experimental methods for investigation of solubility phenomena, new analytical techniques, new experimental data, prediction of solubilities and phase equilibria by thermodynamic and molecular modelling, correlation to molecular structure, thermodynamic data bases, application of solubility data and phase equilibria in industry, for protection of environment and in geochemistry.
The 14th ISSP will put an emphasis on solubility aspects of aqueous salt solutions, molten salts, and ionic liquids. Particularly welcome are contributions to the solubility of lithium compounds in solutions and melts and its possible relevance for extraction, purification and lithium battery technology.
This symposium will also stress the chemical basis of hydrometallurgy and the application of chemical concepts in industrial processes. An effort will be made to proceed beyond classical thermodynamics by including discussions on constrained equilibria, irreversible thermodynamics and phase transformation kinetics.
Parallel to the symposium a workshop will be held entitled
From Chemical Equilibrium to Process Modelling,
Inclusion of Kinetics into Thermodynamic Reasoning
Symposium and Workshop are going to bring together experts in chemical, metallurgical, and computational aspects not only of classical solubility phenomena and related equilibrium processes but also on dissolution and precipitation kinetics. The theme has significance to future key technologies in hydro- and pyrometallurgy as well as materials science. A presentation and discussion of the state-of-art of experimental investigation and computer assisted calculation among chemists and metallurgists will, for mutual benefit, contribute to close the gap between these sciences. Highlights of this conference and workshop will be attempts to include kinetics into thermodynamic reasoning.
A list of the ISSP 2010 key lectures in PDF is provided here: http://issp.unileoben.ac.at/files/Key_lectures_ISSP_2010Leoben.pdf (last modified on 2010-04-09).
Information about the ISSP 2010 social events is provided here: http://issp.unileoben.ac.at/files/14ISSP_social_events.pdf (last modified on 2010-07-17).
The Scientific Programme can be found here: http://issp.unileoben.ac.at/files/14th_ISSP_Sci_prog.pdf (last modified on 2010-07-15).