2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Recycling and Upcycling of Plastic Waste

Recycling and Upcycling of Plastic Waste

Chair

Co-Chair

Robert Peters, UNIV OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM

Presentations

03:30 PM

(636a) Methods to Purify, Preserve, and Recycle Polyolefins Using Green Solvents and Water
Madison Reed, Arsalaan Nisar Pathan, James M. Eagan, Michael Timko

03:45 PM

(636b) Upcycling of Virgin and Waste Polyethylene, Polypropylene, and Related Polymers and Copolymers into Recyclable Networks By One-Step, Radical-Based Reactive Processing
John Torkelson

04:00 PM

(636c) Towards Closed-Loop Polymer Recycling: Enhancing Poly(lactide) Depolymerization into Methyl Lactate
Suer Kurklu-Kocaoglu, Carson Womack, Sabah Najjar, Louise Kuehster, Hamidreza Mahdavi, Nirvana Almada, Laila Halim, Michael Batten, Leonie van't Hag, Zongli Xie, Zachariah Page, Matthew R. Hill, Nathaniel A. Lynd, Benny D. Freeman

04:15 PM

(636d) Upcycled Membranes for Resilience: Chlorine Resistance of Upcycled-PVC Membranes Outperforms Conventional Polymeric Materials
Atta Ur Razzaq, Milad Esfahani

04:30 PM

(636e) Carbon Dioxide Induced Separation of Terephthalic Acid for Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Chemical Recycling
Diego Trevisan Melfi, Aaron M. Scurto

04:45 PM

(636f) Upcycling of Polyolefins to Constituent Monomers over Microwave-Responsive Metal Carbides Nanotubes
Muhammad Usman Azam, Michael X. Jie, Peter P. Edwards, Daniel R. Slocombe

05:00 PM

(636g) Upcycling Drink Bottle Waste to Ball-Sheet Intercalated Carbon Structures for Supercapacitor Applications
Yixian Pei, Yixin Liao, Shengnian Wang

05:15 PM

(636h) Advancing Closed-Loop Recycling of Nylon 6 Waste through a Nucleophile-Assisted Depolymerization
Xianyuan Wu, Rahul Prasad Bangalore Ashok, Xiao Wang, Matthew Webber, Anna Brenner, Griffin Drake, Joel Miscall, Clarissa L. Lincoln, Shannon S. Stahl, Jason DesVeaux, Taylor Uekert, Elisabeth Van Roijen, Stefan J. Haugen, Yang Shao-Horn, Gregg T. Beckham, Yuriy Román-Leshkov