2023 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Poster Session: Waste Plastics

Chair

Jeffrey Seay, University of Kentucky

Co-Chair

Shelby Browning, Eastman Chemical Company

Presentations

03:30 PM

(154u) Sovothermal Upcycling of E-Waste Plastics into Blendstock Fuels and Chemicals
Toufiq Reza, Vahab Ghalandari
(154v) Tidytron: Reducing Lab Waste Using Validated Wash-and-Reuse Protocols for Common Plasticware in Opentrons OT-2 Lab Robots
John Bryant, Clay Wright
(154ar) Microwave-Assisted Chemical Recycling of Polyolefinic Plastics for the Production of Monomers
Leilei Dai, Roger Ruan
(154w) A Sustainable Hybrid Catalyst to Depolymerize Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate
Aboulfazl Barati, Mojtaba Enayati, Erfan Dashtimoghadam, Somayeh Mohammadi
(154x) Production of Polystyrene Microparticles and Microfibers from Waste Expanded Polystyrene Using Spinning Disk Technique
Raghunathan Rengaswamy, Basavaraj M. Gurappa, Kiruthika Jayaseelan, Sreejith C, Shijoy Thomas
(154y) Formation of PET Oligomers Via Microwave-Assisted Heating
Sean Najmi, Brandon Vance, Esun Selvam, Dylan Huang, Dionisios Vlachos
(154aa) Thermal Oxo-Degradation of Post-Consumer Waste Plastics to Increased Yields of Desirable Products Using Less Energy
Jessica Brown, Ryan Smith, Robert Brown, Tannon Daugaard, Sarah Tyree
(154e) Nutrient Sourcing in Optimization of Microbial Plastic Waste Valorization
Kimia Noroozi, Laura R. Jarboe
(154ab) Real-Time Plastic Waste Recognition with Mid-IR Standoff Detection and Advanced Machine Learning
Yaoli Zhao, Patatri Chakraborty, Zixia Meng, Thomas Thundat
(154ae) Recovery of Virgin-like Polypropylene from Mixed Plastic Wastes
Parikshit Sarda, Sridhar Viamajala, Joseph Lawrence
(239e) Sustainable Process Design for Valorization of PET Waste
Sweta Zode
(154ah) Insights into Co-Pyrolysis of Polyethylene Terephthalate and Polyamide 6 Mixture through Experiments, Kinetic Modeling and Machine Learning
Varaha Jonnalagedda
(154aj) MD Simulation of Waste Plastic-Asphalt Compatibility
Aniruddha Chowdhury, Andrew J. Peters, Nazimuddin Wasiuddin, Pouria Nourian
(154f) Two Enzyme Whole Cell Biocatalysts for Complete PET Degradation
Siddhant Gulati, Qing Sun, Eric Imhoff
(154ak) Upcycling Plastics to Value-Added Chemicals Via Electrified Spatiotemporal Heating
Qi Dong, Liangbing Hu
(154g) Waste Plastics Valorization through Pyrolysis Processes: A System Analysis Framework
Sam Barker, Mason Aksomitus, Amir Akbari, Gary Aurand, Rui Shi
(154al) Upcycling of Waste Poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) through Depolymerization Under Mild Conditions
Jason Bara, Ali Alshaikh
(154h) Catalytic Conversion of Waste PET into Bhet over Mn-Substituted MgAl2O4 Spinel As a Reusable and Regenerable Heterogeneous Catalyst
Jongin Choi, Haoxiang Zhang, Do-Young Hong
(154ao) Upcycling Virgin and Waste Polyethylene to Reprocessable Dynamic Covalent Networks Via Free-Radical Grafting of Dialkylamino Disulfide Bonds
Logan Fenimore, John Torkelson, Boran Chen
(154ap) Mechanochemical Degradation of Polyethylene into Waxy Residue, Olefin Containing Products and Gaseous C1-C6 Products
Laura Wilcox, Douglas P. Theberge, Yagnaseni Ghosh
(154i) Blue Hydrogen Production from Waste Tire: Technical and Economic Assessment
Usama Ahmed
(154aq) Evaluating the Economic and Environmental Benefits of Deploying a National-Scale, Thermo-Chemical Plastic Upcycling Infrastructure in the United States
Evan Erickson, Philip Tominac, Jiaze Ma, Victor Zavala
(154j) Selective and Efficient Glycolysis of Textile PET, Colored PET, and Multilayer PET Using Ionic Liquids
Fahimeh Forouzeshfar, Maria Coleman, Joseph Lawrence
(154k) Kinetics of Polyurethane Foam Acidolysis with Carboxylic Acids
Zach Westman, Baoyuan Liu, Kelsey Richardson, Dingyuan Lim, Alan Stottlemyer, Christopher Letko, Nasim Hooshyar, Phillip Christopher, Mahdi Abu-Omar, Vojtech Vlcek
(154m) Polyethylene Terephthalate Depolymerization: Controlled Glycolysis to Oligomers Via Microwave Irradiation Using Antimony (III) Oxide
Somayeh Mohammadi, Martin Bouldo, Mojtaba Enayati
(154a) Discovery and Mechanism-Guided Engineering of BHET Hydrolases for Improved PET Recycling and Upcycling
Xiujuan Li, Anni Li, Luxuan Wu, Yibo Song, Rongrong Yang, He Huang
(154n) Zeolite-Catalyzed Upcycling of Waste Plastic Using Thermal and Microwave Reactor
Jianli Hu, Yuxin Wang, Thang Luong
(154b) Computational High-Throughput Screening of Glycerol-Derived Solvents for Plastic Waste Recycling
Ademola Soyemi, Tibor Szilvasi
(154o) Depolymerizing PET Via "Imidazolysis": A New Cleavage Strategy to Obtain Versatile Intermediates
Mousumi Rani Bepari, Kathryn O'Harra, Lauren Sullivan, Jason Bara
(154c) Novel Thin Film Composite (TFC) Membranes Fabricated from Upcycled Waste PVC Pipe Support Layer for Water Treatment
Atta Ur Razzaq, Milad Esfahani
(154p) Molecular Recycling of Mixed Plastic Waste Facilitated By Solvents
Paschalis Alexandridis, Marina Tsianou, Ali Ghasemi, Christian Ferger, Jacob Licht
(154q) Material Recycling of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene from Toy Waste Using Safer Solvents
Taofeng Lu, Wan-Ting Chen
(154r) Reactive Compatibilization of Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate/Recycled Rubber Particles Blends
Aboulfazl Barati, Erfan Dashtimoghadam
(154s) A Two-Stage Process and a Generalized Molecular-Level Kinetic Model for Polyolefin Pyrolysis: Low Molecular Weight Product Evolution
Zhe Fu
(154t) Novel Chemi-Mechanical Recycling Process for Blending of Polyethylene and Polypropylene
Madison R. Reed, Michael T. Timko, James M. Eagan, Arsalaan Nisar Pathan, Abhishek Banerjee, Paul Boulier