2008 Spring Meeting & 4th Global Congress on Process Safety

Session: Green Chemistry & Engineering - Alternative Solvents and Bioapplications

Chairs

Raymond Smith, US Environmental Protection Agency
Michael A. Gonzalez, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Presentations

08:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

08:35 AM

(107a) Green Chemistry Considerations in the Design of Ionic Liquids
Richard E. Engler, J. Vincent Nabholz

09:00 AM

(107b) Guanidine/alcohol and Amidine/alcohol Switchable Solvent Mixtures
Hillary A. Huttenhower, Lam Phan, Daniel Chiu, David J. Heldebrant, Ejae A. John, Xiaowang Li, Pamela Pollet, Charles Eckert, Charles L. Liotta, Philip G. Jessop

09:25 AM

(107c) Screening Ionic Liquids for Green Chemistry
David A. Gallagher, Andreas Klamt, Michael Diedenhofen

09:50 AM

Intermission

10:05 AM

(107d) Development and Characterization of Renewable Copolymers, Poly(glycerol-fumarate) and Poly(trimethylene-malonate) from by-Products of Biorefineries
Mathew D. Rowe, Keisha B. Walters

10:30 AM

(107e) Environmentally-Friendly Glycerol Disposal Using Bacterial-Mediated Fermentation
Andrew T. Ford, Bart HJ. van den Berg, Rafael Hernandez, William Holmes, Todd French

10:55 AM

(107f) Silica Surface Modifications for Bioapplications
Fei Shen, Orlando J. Rojas, Patrick V. Gurgel, Ruben G. Carbonell, Jan Genzer

11:20 AM

(107g) Green Catalytic Hydrogenolysis of Glycerol to Propylene Glycol Over a Promising Silica Supported Copper Catalyst
Zhiwei Huang, Fang Cui, Jing Chen, Xinzhi Zhang, Chungu Xia, Zhongyi Ding