Dear Colleagues, The international conference on the Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD) is the premiere international conference that exclusively focuses on the fundamentals and applications of computer-aided design for the process industries. Held every five years, FOCAPD 2009 with a key theme" Design for Energy and the Environment" will be the seventh in this series and will be held at the Beaver Run Resort in Breckenridge, Colorado from June 7 - 12, 2009. Please find attached the call for abstracts. Upon request from the community, the abstracts are solicited to aid in the selection of invited and poster presentations. Accepted abstracts will be invited for the submission of papers that will be subjected to peer review. Accepted papers will be included in a book to be published by Taylor and Francis in June, 2009 and in the conference proceedings CD-ROM to be distributed to the chemical engineering departments supporting the CACHE Corp. The deadline for the abstracts is September 25, 2008. For more information and for submission of the abstracts, please visit www.FOCAPD.org Best regards, Conference Chairs: Mahmoud El-Halwagi Texas A&M University E-mail: [log in to unmask] Andreas Linninger University of Illinois, Chicago E-mail: [log in to unmask]