Editorial - ACS Publications - American Chemical Society

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J. Chem. Eng. Data 2006, 51, 1

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Editorial I am very pleased to welcome Dr. Paul L. Brown as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data. Dr. Brown is a scientist with Rio Tinto and is currently located at Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Brown obtained his Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Wollongong in Australia under the auspices of an Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering Postgraduate Scholarship. The laboratory work was performed at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) and partly at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After graduation, Dr. Brown worked at ANSTO in the Environment Division for 20 years before taking a position with the Australian Sustainable Industry Research Centre (ASIRC) in 2003, a private Australian research center. At ASIRC, he was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer. Recently, he was appointed as a Principal Consultant with Rio Tinto Technical Services. Paul is a geochemist and has interests in aqueous geochemistry and the theory and measurement of complex stability. He has also extended this work to the application of modeling, laboratory, and field geochemical techniques to a variety of environmental problems. Dr. Brown has over 60 publications in refereed journals in relation to the measurement of thermodynamic properties, particularly stability constants and models for the prediction of such properties. He also has over 60 commercial reports for clients in a large variety of industry sectors, particularly the mining industry. He is a member of a number of international committees relating to the critical selection of thermodynamic parameters including the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the OECD. He was lead author on a thermochemistry review in the NEA program, which has culminated in a book entitled Chemical Thermodynamics of Zirconium and is preparing a second book with his wife and Professor Peter Williams on The Aqueous Chemistry of Polonium. In 2005, over 500 manuscripts were submitted and over 2000 pages were published. As a result of the increased submissions of articles containing routine measurements of solubility, viscosity, density, speed of sound, and/or refractive index, these articles must now present a substantial body of work over a wide temperature range. The Journal policy of not publishing papers reporting only densities and/or speed of sound and/or refractive index in the vicinity of room temperature and atmospheric pressure, unless accompanied by other data, still holds. ThermoML data files of the majority of papers published in JCED are available from the TRC/NIST web site www.trc.nist.gov/ThermoML.html. During 2006, enhancements such as a relational database and a reader to convert a ThermoML file to an Excel file will be accessible to authors who submit their Guided Data Capture files to TRC/NIST. Kenneth N. Marsh Editor JE0505319

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