2016 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Sustainable and Green Product Design 

This session focuses on the synthesis of chemicals and functional materials from sustainable resources. Papers on biomass-derived chemical products and "green" approaches to chemical synthesis and processes are invited.

Chair

Co-Chairs

Asad H. Sahir, University of Utah
Kishori Deshpande, The Dow Chemical Company

Presentations

03:15 PM

(239a) Cyclic Polyethylene Furanoate As a Monomer from Renewable Resources for Ring Opening Polymerization
Peter Fleckenstein, Giuseppe Storti, Massimo Morbidelli

03:36 PM

(239b) Polymeric Nano-Metal Composite Membranes for Water Remediation
Sebastián Hernández, Dibakar Bhattacharyya, Lindell Ormsbee, LEI SHI, Rong Wang

03:57 PM

(239c) Thermodynamic and Economic Assessment of the Production of Ethylene and Propylene from Bioethanol
Jorge Becerra, Martha Cobo, Manuel Figueredo

04:18 PM

(239d) Design and Economical Evaluation of Polygen Process to Co-Produce Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG), Methanol and Ethylene Glycol
Bor-Yih Yu, I-Lung Chien

04:39 PM

(239e) Preparation and Properties of Soybean Oil-Based Composites Containing Natural Fillers
Jeffrey Csernica, Andrew Fox

05:00 PM

(239f) Solvent Free Sucrose Esters Production in Reactive Systems Containing Emulsifiers
Alvaro Orjuela, Maria F. Gutierrez, Jose L. Rivera, Andrea Suaza Montalvo

05:21 PM

(239g) Synthesis and Characterization of Biochar-Based Carbon Supported Metal Nanoparticles
Sai Teja Neeli, Hema Ramsurn