2023 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Waste Plastic - Recycle, Reuse and Remediation Strategies I

Chair

Jeffrey Seay, University of Kentucky

Co-Chairs

Amy E. Landis, COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES
Aurora del Carmen Munguía-López, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Presentations

08:00 AM

(131a) The Presence of Waste Plastics and Microplastics in Lakes and Rivers, and Their Impact on the Marine Environment
Robert Peters, Mohamed Mostafa, Ahmed Mahmoud, Djihan Hassan

08:18 AM

(131b) Process Systems Engineering Tools for Assessing Upcycling Technologies of Plastic Waste
Borja Hernández Blázquez, Esun Selvam, Pavel Kots, Oluwadare Badejo, Dionisios Vlachos, Marianthi Ierapetritou

08:36 AM

(131c) Design and Optimization of Circular Economy Networks: Recycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate As a Case Study
Abdulhakeem Ahmed, Ana I. Torres, Akhil Nair, Carl Laird

08:54 AM

(131d) Cradle-to-Cradle Life Cycle Assessment of Multilayer Plastic Films Used in Sheet Molding Compound Process
Farshid Nazemi, Rachmat Mulyana, Jose M. Castro, Bhavik Bakshi

09:12 AM

(131e) Computational Modeling of Dissolution-Based Plastic Recycling: Solubility Prediction, Solvent Screening, and Process Design
Panzheng Zhou, Jiuling Yu, Aurora del Carmen Munguía-López, Kevin Sanchez-Rivera, George Huber, Victor M. Zavala, Reid Van Lehn

09:30 AM

(131f) Recycling Waste Plastic to Fuels: Detailed Mechanistic Modelling of LLDPE Pyrolysis
Paulami Majumdar, Aswathy K. Raghu, Linda J. Broadbelt

09:48 AM

(131g) Upcycling of Waste PVC-Based Materials to Electrospun Nanofibers for Water Treatment
Atta Ur Razzaq, Milad Esfahani

10:06 AM

(131h) Recycling of Multilayer Plastic Packaging Materials By Solvent-Targeted Recovery and Precipitation (STRAP)
Kevin Sanchez-Rivera, Aurora del Carmen Munguía-López, Panzheng Zhou, Victor Sanfins Cecon, Jiuling Yu, Zhuo Xu, Shreyas Kolapkar, Kevin Nelson, John Estela, Tim Osswald, Greg W. Curtzwiler, Keith L. Vorst, Ezra Bar Ziv, Victor Zavala, Reid Van Lehn, George Huber

10:24 AM

(131i) Advanced Recycling of Plastics in a Circular Economy: State of the Art and Major Challenges for Complementary Chemical Recycling Technologies
Philip Biessey