2008 Spring Meeting & 4th Global Congress on Process Safety

Session: Green Chemistry & Engineering - Alternative Solvents and Bioapplications

Chairs

Smith, R., US Environmental Protection Agency
Gonzalez, M. A., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Presentations

08:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

08:35 AM

(107a) Green Chemistry Considerations in the Design of Ionic Liquids

09:00 AM

(107b) Guanidine/alcohol and Amidine/alcohol Switchable Solvent Mixtures

09:25 AM

(107c) Screening Ionic Liquids for Green Chemistry

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

10:30 AM

(107e) Environmentally-Friendly Glycerol Disposal Using Bacterial-Mediated Fermentation

10:55 AM

(107f) Silica Surface Modifications for Bioapplications

11:20 AM

(107g) Green Catalytic Hydrogenolysis of Glycerol to Propylene Glycol Over a Promising Silica Supported Copper Catalyst