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Workshop Agenda
CRITICAL BUILDING BLOCKS AND TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABILITY IN THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY: IDENTIFYING AN AGENDA FOR NATIONAL RESEARCH
Monday, February 7, 2005
8:15 a.m. |
Welcome and Overview of Workshop James Trainham PPG Industries Chair, Committee on Grand Challenges for Sustainability in the Chemical Industry |
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SESSION 1: Sustainability Science Literacy and Education that Enables the Adoption of More Sustainable Practices in the Chemical Industry Chair: Andrea Larson University of Virginia |
8:30 a.m. |
Overview Speaker: Current Knowledge about the Nexus of Industrial Activity and Natural Systems (Earth Systems to Infant Immune System Impacts) Braden R. Allenby Arizona State University |
9:30 a.m. |
Targeting and Guiding Demand for Green Chemistry in Product Design Lauren Heine GreenBlue Institute |
10:00 a.m. |
Is Chemistry Education Sustainable? Mary Kirchhoff American Chemical Society |
10:30 a.m. |
Break |
10:45 a.m. |
Concurrent sessions (five groups) |
12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
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SESSION 2: Enabling Technologies that Drive the Application of Green Chemistry and Engineering Chair: Michael D. Bertolucci Interface Research Corporation |
1:30 p.m. |
Overview Speaker: Enabling Technologies that Drive the Application of Green Chemistry and Engineering Berkeley W. Cue, Jr. Pfizer, Inc. (retired) |
2:30 p.m. |
Life Cycle Analysis—A Tool for Change Richard Helling The Dow Chemical Company. |
3:00 p.m. |
Development of Sound Structure/Property Relations, and Tools to Predict the Health and Environmental Impacts of Specific Chemicals Robert J. Kavlock U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
3:30 p.m. |
Break |
3:45 p.m. |
Concurrent sessions (five groups) |
5:30 p.m. |
Adjourn |
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
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SESSION 3: New Chemicals and Processes that Lead to Commercially Viable Alternative Feedstocks to Fossil Fuels Chair: Frankie Wood-Black ConocoPhillips |
8:00 a.m. |
Overview Speaker: Current Fossil Fuel Dependence and Future Alternative Feedstocks Stanley R. Bull National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
9:00 a.m. |
Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals Mark T. Holtzapple Texas A&M |
9:30 a.m. |
Specialty Intermediate and Complex Molecule Synthesis Douglas C. Cameron Cargill Research |
10:00 a.m. |
Break |
10:15 a.m. |
Concurrent sessions (five groups) |
12:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
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SESSION 4: Reducing the Energy Intensity of the Chemical Process Industry Chair: Joan Brennecke University of Notre Dame |
1:00 p.m. |
Overview Speaker: Sustainability, Stoichiometry, and Process Systems Engineering Jeffrey J. Siirola Eastman Chemical Company |
2:00 p.m. |
Enzymes: Advances in Sustainable Industrial Processes and Bioenergy Glenn E. Nedwin Novozymes Biotech, Inc. |
2:30 p.m. |
Membrane Processes as Low energy-Intensive Enablers for Energy Conservation in the Chemical Industry William J. Koros Georgia Institute of Technology |
3:00 p.m. |
Green Chemistry for Carbon Management Klaus S. Lackner Columbia University |
3:30 p.m. |
Break |
3:45 p.m. |
Concurrent Sessions (five groups) |
5:30 p.m. |
Adjourn |