2024 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Microplastics Contamination: Research, Treatment and Mitigation

This session discusses the research into characterizing microplastics that are present in soil, sand, water and airborne sources in addition to the possible treatment options which can remediate these sources.

Chair

Axe, L., NJIT Dept of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Co-Chair

Barrett, W., US Environmental Protection Agency

Presentations

08:00 AM

(637a) Microplastic Human Dietary Uptake from 1990 to 2018 Grew across 109 Major Developing and Industrialized Countries: Halving By Plastic Debris Removal

08:25 AM

(637b) Elucidating the Role of Mechanical Forces in the Generation of Nanoplastics

08:50 AM

(637c) Environmentally Relevant Polystyrene Micro- and Nano- Plastics (MPs and NPs) Accumulation and Their Interaction with Lipids at Air-Sea Water (SW) Interface

09:15 AM

(637d) A Microfluidic Platform for Enhanced Environmental Micro/Nanoplastic Analysis

09:40 AM

(637f) Computational Discovery of Plastic-Binding Peptides for Remediating Microplastic Pollution

10:05 AM

(637h) A Novel Approach for Microplastic Removal from Aqueous Solution Via Fe3O4 functionalised g-C3N4 and Bnns: Recyclability and Toxicity Assessment