Past and future ISSP conferences: 1984-2008
In even numbered years, the IUPAC Subcommittee on Solubility and
Equilibrium Data (SSED) organizes a conference named International Symposium
on Solubility Phenomena, and from 1984 to the present, thirteen conferences have been held at various sites in
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. The most recent
conference, the 13th International
Symposium on Solubility Phenomena – Including Related Equilibrium Processes, was held from
27-31 July 2008 in Dublin, Ireland, and the 14th ISSP will be held
during July 2010 in Leoben, Austria. The subject matters for these conferences deal with all
aspects of solubilities and properties of solutions such as thermodynamics,
kinetics and general analytical chemistry as applied to theoretical chemistry,
industrial processes, the environment, biochemistry, methods of compiling and
critically evaluating solubility data, and databases. Plenary and Invited lectures presented at these conferences are
published in The Union's journal Pure and Applied Chemistry, and
citations to specific issues containing these lectures are included in the
listings below.
Future ISSP
Conferences
14th
ISSP, Leoben, Austria, July 2010.
Past ISSP Conferences
1st ISSP , Univ. Western Ontario,
London, ON, Canada, 20-23 August 1984.
Plenary and Invited Lectures from the conference were published in Pure and
Applied Chemistry, vol. 57, No. 2 (1985), pp 225-336.
2nd ISSP , New Jersey Institute of
Technology, Newark, NJ, USA, 12-15 August 1986.
Plenary and Invited Lectures from the conference were published in Pure and
Applied Chemistry, vol. 58, No. 12 (1986), pp 1547-1610.
3rd ISSP , Univ. Surrey, Guildford,
Surrey, UK, 23-26 August 1988.
Plenary and Invited Lectures from the conference were published in Pure and
Applied Chemistry, vol. 61, No. 2 (1989), pp iv, 121-185.
4th ISSP , Rensselaer Polytechnic
Inst., Troy, NY, USA, 1-3 August 1990.
Plenary and Invited Lectures from the conference were published in Pure and
Applied Chemistry, vol. 62, No. 11 (1990), pp 2069-2138.
5th ISSP , Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 8-10 July 1992.
Plenary and Invited Lectures from the conference were published in Pure and
Applied Chemistry, vol. 65, No. 2 (1993), pp 173-228.
6th ISSP , Univ. Buenos Aires/Hotel
Bauen, Buenos Aires, Argentina 22-26 August 1994.
Plenary and Invited Lectures from the conference were published in Pure and
Applied Chemistry, vol. 67, No. 4 (1995), pp 1031-1116.
7th ISSP , Univ. Leoben, Leoben, Austria, 22-25 July 1996.
Plenary
and Invited Lectures from the conference were published in Pure and Applied
Chemistry, vol. 69, No. 5 (1997), pp 905-978.
8th ISSP , Bandai Civic Hall, Niigata,
Japan 5-8 August 1998.
Plenary and Invited Lectures from the conference were published in Pure and
Applied Chemistry, vol. 70, No. 10 (1998), pp 1867-1932.
9th ISSP, Hotel Sol Azur, Hammamet,
Tunisia, 25-28 July 2000.
Plenary and Invited Lectures from the conference were published in Pure and
Applied Chemistry, vol. 73, No. 5 (2001), pp. 761-844.
10th ISSP, St. St. Constantine and
Helen Resort, Varna, Bulgaria, 21-26 July 2002.
Plenary and Invited Lectures from the conference were published in Pure and
Applied Chemistry, vol. 74, No. 10 (2002), pp. 1785-1920.
11th ISSP,
University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, 25-29 July 2004.
Plenary and Invited Lectures from the conference were published in Pure and
Applied Chemistry, vol. 77, No. 3 (2005), pp. 513-665.
12th ISSP, TU
Bergakademie, Freiberg, Germany, 23-28 July 2006.
Plenary and Invited Lectures from the conference were published in Pure and
Applied Chemistry, vol. 79, No. 5 (2007), pp. 825-894.
13th ISSP, University College, Dublin, Ireland, 27-31 August 2008.
Plenary and Invited Lectures from the conference to be published in Pure and
Applied Chemistry.
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H. Gamsjäger and Wolfgang Voigt
prepared a report on the conference to The Union. This report is reproduced
below.
12th
International Symposium on Solubility Phenomena 23-28 July, 2006, Freiberg,
Germany
The 12th International Symposium on Solubility Phenomena and Related
Equilibrium Processes was held at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg in Germany
under the auspices of IUPAC. As initiated at the 10th ISSP in Varna,
this symposium continued the practice of offering a workshop on a special topic
related to solubility.
The Subcommittee on Solubility and
Equilibrium Data (SSED) of the IUPAC Analytical Division (Division V) met over
the two days prior to the Symposium with Prof. Heinz Gamsjäger (Austria) in the
chair. The joint organizers of the Symposium
were the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, the German Chemical Society and the SSED. Sponsors for the Symposium, in addition to
the TU
Bergakademie Freiberg, were the German Research Foundation and
the Federal Ministry of Economics and
Labour. The symposium was chaired by Wolfgang Voigt, with assistance from Daniela Freyer, conference
secretary, and members of the local organizing
committee. The symposium was reported on by
the TU Bergakademie Freiberg websites, Journal
of Solution Chemistry, Nachrichten of the German Chemical Society, Molten Salts
Bulletin and several international conference information websites.
One hundred and twenty four participants from 30 countries took part in the Symposium. One hundred
and three of the scientific participants registered both for Symposium and
Workshop, whereas 8 attended the Workshop only.
The opening ceremony was presided
over by the Rector of TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Georg Unland. Welcoming remarks were also given
by Heinz Gamsjäger, the representative of IUPAC,
Matthias Otto, dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Physics in Freiberg, and Wolfgang Voigt,
symposium chair.
Six
plenary and two invited lectures highlighted a
wide spectrum of solubility phenomena. Gerd Maurer (Germany) gave the opening
plenary address, entitled “Gas solubility in aqueous and non-aqueous
solutions”, a topic of pressing importance. His lecture demonstrated that
classical thermodynamics, as well as molecular simulations, are needed for
predicting gas solubilities in “complex” systems. The concluding plenary
address was given by Petros G. Koutsoukos (Greece), whose stimulating lecture
on “Solubility of salts in water: Key issue for crystal growth and dissolution
processes” elucidated the role of supersaturation, substrate/water interface
and fluid dynamics on solubility phenomena. The other keynote lectures dealt
with: limitations of Li-air batteries due to solubilities (M. Salomon, USA),
fundamentals and applications of gas hydrates (E.D. Sloan, USA), radioactive
waste disposal (H. Wanner, Switzerland), high pressure investigations (S.
Sawamura, Japan), high-temperature in situ pH measurements of metal
oxide solubilities (D.J. Wesolowski, USA), and preferential crystallization in
the region of two solid phases (A. König, Germany). These plenary and invited
lectures are to be published in Pure and
Applied Chemistry under the editorship of Earle Waghorne (Ireland).
Thirty one short communications and 59 posters were presented during afternoon and morning sessions.
Thirty minutes were assigned to short communications, which turned out more
convenient than the usual 15 to 20 minutes, a fact that should be considered
for future ISSPs. The oral and poster contributions ranged from fundamentals of
phase equilibria to new experimental data and modelling of solubility processes
to applications in industry and environment. The delegates continued their
scientific discussions over lunch in the historical restaurant
“Schwanenschlösschen”. Throughout the conference a stimulating atmosphere
prevailed.
At
the one day workshop on “Quality Assurance in Thermodynamic Databases for
Performance Assessment Studies in Waste Disposal”, run in parallel to the
conference, invited speakers presented updates on thermodynamic database
projects. Speaker included R. Rarey, Dortmund Databank; H. Wanner, OECD Nuclear
Energy Thermochemical Database Project; M. Gaune-Escard, Molten Salt Database;
P. Cloke, Yucca Mountain Project Database; Th. Vercouter, Common Thermodynamic
Database Project; E. Bastrakov, FreeGs Thermodynamic Database Project; S.
Hagemann, THEREDA German Database for Waste Disposal Assessment Studies. Ken
Marsh introduced into the XML-based IUPAC standard “ThermoML” designed for
exchange of thermo-physical data.
The three IUPAC poster prizes were
given to Prof. Alexander S. Lileev (N.S. Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry
of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) for poster, “Non-additivity of
contributions into the dielectric constant of saturated solutions and ion-ion
interactions in ternary water-salt systems”, to Dr. Sven Hagemann (Gesellschaft
für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit, Germany) for poster, “A new simple method
for the investigation of hydrogen sulfide solubilities in aqueous solutions” and
Georgia Wollmann (Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, TU Bergakademie Freiberg,
Germany) for poster, “Solubilities related to substituted polyhalites”.
The participants enjoyed a half-day guided tour to
Dresden seeing such famous sights as fortifications originating from the 16th
century, “Zwinger”, “Frauenkirche” and “Semper opera”. A highlight of
this wonderful day was the delicious dinner at the “Panoramarestaurant” with a
view to the imposing Elbe Sandstone Mountains of the “Bastei”. Accompanying persons
enjoyed shopping
tours to Dresden and Chemnitz,
sightseeing in Freiberg, visiting the famous Mineral collection of the
University and the Laboratory
Museum of Clemens Winkler, as well as the educational mine of TU Bergakademie
Freiberg. At the excellent Symposium dinner in
the restaurant “Brauhof” the participants got a chance to express their
gratitude to the hosts by singing “Frère Jacques, Frère Jacques” in their
native tongue. According to the thunderous applause the Chinese were the
winners of this humorous contest.
The 13th ISSP will be held in July 2008 in Dublin, Ireland.
H. Gamsjäger (IUPAC Representative),
W. Voigt (Symposium Chair)
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