2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Catalytic Upcycling of Waste Plastics

Chair

Sheima Khatib, Texas Tech University

Co-Chairs

Wan-Ting Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Hilal Ezgi Toraman, Penn State University

Presentations

08:00 AM

(178b) A Heterogeneous System for Alkane Rearrangement: A Means to Depolymerize Polyethylene at Low Temperature (< 200°C)
Lucas Ellis, Yuriy Roman, Gregg Beckham

08:15 AM

(178c) Visualization of Catalyst Pore Usage during Cracking Polyolefin Cracking By Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy
Ina Vollmer, Bert M. Weckhuysen, Michael Jenks

08:30 AM

(178d) Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations of Poly(styrene peroxide) Chemical Recycling
Onur Dogu, Pieter P. Plehiers, Ruben Van de Vijver, Paul H.M. Van Steenberge, Dagmar R. D'hooge, Kevin Van Geem

08:45 AM

(178e) Understanding the Origin of Long-Chain Alkane Hydrogenolysis Selectivity for the Chemical Upcycling of Waste Polyolefins
Julie Rorrer, Yuriy Roman

09:00 AM

(178f) Current Trends and Future Plastics
Meltem Urgun-Demirtas

09:15 AM

(178g) Air and Air/Steam Gasification of Polymers in a Semi-Batch Reactor System for H2 and CO Production
Scott Svadlenak, Konstantinos Goulas, Katherine Paul, Skip Rochefort