2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Microplastics Contamination: Environmental Impact

This session focuses on the environmental impact of microplastics in the with research discussions on transport and fate.

Chair

Lisa Axe, NJIT Dept of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Co-Chairs

Teresa Murray, Louisiana Tech University
William Barrett, US Environmental Protection Agency

Presentations

12:30 PM

(340a) How Do Microplastics Harm Human Health
Teresa Murray, Jeffrey Seay, Alberto Losada, Sergio Cortes, Yuet-Kin Leung, Shuk-Mei Ho, Wesley C Zech, Robert Peters

12:55 PM

(340b) High-Throughput Studies for Measuring the Environmental Fate of Polymer Microplastics
Bradley Olsen, Katharina Fransen, Sarah Av-Ron, Gabrielle Godbille-Cardona, Alex Zappi, Natalie Mamrol, Kristala Prather

01:20 PM

(340c) Microplastics Under the Sun Behaving like out-of-Equilibrium Colloids
Ahmed Al Harraq, Philip Brahana, Bhuvnesh Bharti

01:45 PM

(340d) Microplastics As Ice Nucleating Particles
Philip Brahana, Bhuvnesh Bharti

02:10 PM

(340f) Fate and Prevalence of Microplastic in Biotic and Abiotic Ecosystems of Natural Freshwater: A Case Study of Jhapa Lake, Bangladesh
Rajesh Kumar Chanda, Shadhon Kumar, Ringku Basak, Nirupam Aich, Biplob Kumar Biswas

02:35 PM

(340g) Effect of Microplastics on Nanoparticle Transport in Porous Beds.
Guillermina Gentile, Florencia Dieguez Alvarez