2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Microplastics: Pollution and Treatment

This session discusses research into characterizing microplastics release into the environment along with novel treatment options which can remediate these sources.

Chair

Lisa Axe, NJIT Dept of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Co-Chairs

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

Presentations

03:30 PM

(419a) Mechanism for Nanoparticle Release from Automotive Tire Tread.
Gregory Beaucage, Hong-Sik Eom, Jianqi Wang, Kabir Rishi, Edward Terrill, Jason Poulton, Jan Ilavsky, Lutz Weigert, Benjamin Yavitt, Caroline Rosen

03:45 PM

(419b) Mechanisms of Nanoplastics Generation from Plastics
Maninderjeet Singh, Sanat Kumar

04:00 PM

(419c) Stack Emission of Microplastics from Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Power Plants and Its Characteristics
Ting Su, Huasheng Wang, Xiangyu Gu, Shuang Deng, Songgeng Li

04:15 PM

(419d) Superior Adsorptive Removal of Polystyrene Nanoplastics (PSNPLs) Using an in-Situ Grown ZIF-L MOF on a Polydopamine-Supported Ultrafiltration Membrane
Himangshu Mondal, Milad Esfahani

04:30 PM

(419e) Degradation of Microplastics in Wastewater Treatment Facilities: The Role of Particle-Particle Collisions
Irene Andreu, Kendrick Beaubrun, Joe Goodwill, Vinka Craver

04:45 PM

(419g) Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Microplastics Considering Biodegradation
Zhengyin Piao, Yuan Yao