2022 Annual Meeting

Session: Recycling and Upcycling of Plastic Waste

Chair

Co-Chairs

Raymond Smith, US Environmental Protection Agency
Lucas Ellis, University of Colorado - Boulder

Presentations

08:00 AM

(473a) A Techno-Economic and Life Cycle Analysis of Operating a Standalone Material Recover Facility in the United States.
Olumide Olafasakin, Jiaze Ma, Horacio Aguirre-Villegas, Victor Zavala, George Huber, Mark Mba Wright, Sabrina Bradshaw, Craig Benson

08:12 AM

(473b) Techno-Economic Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment of Modular Microwave-Assisted PET Depolymerization
Yuqing Luo, Esun Selvam, Dionisios Vlachos, Marianthi Ierapetritou

08:24 AM

(473c) Combining Chemical and Biocatalysis to Breakdown and Upcycle Polyethylene
Gwendolyn Gregory, Eleftherios Papoutsakis, Cong Wang, Sunitha Sadula, Raul Lobo, Dionisios Vlachos

08:36 AM

(473d) Degradation of Polyethylene into Olefin Containing Products through Mechanochemistry
Douglas P. Theberge, Laura Wilcox, Yagnaseni Ghosh

09:00 AM

(473f) A Study of Metal Supported ZSM-5 and Y Zeolite for Microwave-Induced Degradation of Low-Density Polyethylene
Thang Luong, Yuxin Wang, Jianli Hu, Sean Brown

09:12 AM

(473g) Impact of Acid Modified DBU-Based Ionic Liquids As Catalysts on Glycolysis of Poly (ethylene terephthalate)
Fahimeh Forouzeshfar, Maria Coleman, Joseph Lawrence

09:24 AM

(473h) Microwave-Enhanced Catalytic Upcycling of Polymer
Jianli Hu, Yuxin Wang

09:36 AM

(473i) Post-Consumer HDPE Waste Conversion to Lubricants: Techno-Economic Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment
Vincenzo Cappello, Pingping Sun, Guiyan Zang, Hernán E. Delgado, Shishir V Kumar, Ryan Hackler, Amgad Elgowainy, Massimiliano Delferro, Theodore Krause

09:48 AM

(473j) Environmental Benefits of the Solvent-Targeted Recovery and Precipitation (STRAP) Process for Multilayer Plastic Films Recycling
Victor Zavala, George Huber, Dilara Goreke, Aurora Del Carmen Munguia Lopez

10:00 AM

(473k) Production of Macronutrients from Hybrid Thermal and Biochemical Conversion of Waste Plastic
Jessica Brown, Efrain Rodriguez-Ocasio, Tannon Daugaard, Ryan Smith, Laura R. Jarboe, Robert Brown

10:12 AM

(473m) Implement a Circular Ecomony for Plastic Waste in Developing Countries
Jeffrey Seay, Dimitrios Karadimas, Shelby Browning, Kaitlyn McGlennon