Preface: 10th Brazilian meeting on adsorption

Abstract

In 2014, Brazil held the FIFA World Cup, which was the most evidenced event in the worldwide community. However, we were also proud to host some other meetings that is boosting Brazil into a world class scientific production. Two months earlier, the Brazilian adsorption community promoted the 10th Brazilian Meeting on Adsorption (EBA10), the most expressive national conference in the field. This edition was chaired by Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP) Diadema, held from April 27th to 30th, in Guaruja, Sao Paulo. Reaching its tenth edition, EBA has experienced a growing interest by Brazilian and international scientific and business community. To understand this growing, we need to know a little bit of history: the first EBA happened in Fortaleza, Ceara on June 1996, organized by an initiative of a group of professors at the Federal University of Ceara, led by Celio Loureiro Cavalcante Jr, PhD. This first meeting showed that the initiative was timely, not only because it relied on the presence of Prof. Douglas Morris Ruthven, PhD, but also by the number of participants (about 100) and quality of the 65 papers presented. After six editions more (Table 1), EBA’s growth came along breaking the country’s frontiers. For this reason, the city of Campina Grande/PB received the EBA7 on June 2008, in which the 1st South American Symposium on Adsorption, Science and Technology and the 1st South American School on Adsorption were held in parallel. The 9th edition, in Recife/PE, held the 1st Ibero-American Symposium on Adsorption (IBA1), which was a longstanding demand of many researchers on Adsorption area who met sporadically at conferences like the Fundamentals of Adsorption (FOA). The simultaneous occurrence of events led to a massive participation of researchers from the Ibero-Latin American region. In this meeting, it was decided that the IBAs will be held every three years. Prof. Juan Carlos Moreno-Pirajan, PhD, from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) is the chairman of IBA2, which will be held from 26th to 30th April, 2015, in Cartagena de Indias—a World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO. This growth trend that EBA experienced was the driving force that motivated a group of young professors from the Chemical Engineering undergraduate program at UNIFESP to accept the invitation to organize the EBA10. The Enseada Beach in Guaruja, a beautiful coastal city 90 km far from Sao Paulo was chosen as the place to host this milestone tenth edition. The development of human resources and the interest of undergraduate and graduate students were highlighted by carrying out the School of Adsorption during EBA10. As its name implies, in the school lessons on various areas of adsorption are taught by professors from educational and research institutions and companies. International invited speakers were responsible for five plenary lectures. Nine keynotes also took place held by international and Brazilian researchers, from academia and business community in order to foster research partnerships. Distributed in eight oral sessions and two poster sessions, 228 papers were presented. The conference was attended by 334 participants from Brazil, South America and Europe. We thank our invited speakers (Gino Baron, Alois Jungbauer, Alirio Rodrigues, Abdelhamid Sayari, Juan Carlos I. T. L. Bresolin (&) Department of Exact and Earth Sciences, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Diadema, SP 09972-270, Brazil e-mail: igor.bresolin@gmail.com