Short Courses for Practicing Professionals
The CEBC is very pleased to announce that it will
conduct a short course for its industry members immediately
following the Fall 2005 IAB Meeting at the University of Iowa.
The short course will cover two related topics “An Introduction
to Green Solvents” and “Assessing Your Environmental
Burden and Identifying Potential Benefits and Value”. The
first topic will be held from 2:30-6:30 pm on Thursday, October
27 and the latter topic will be held from 8:00 am -12:00 noon
on Friday, October 28. A tentative syllabus appears below. (Syllabus
in pdf format)
Attendance at the short course is restricted to
employees of CEBC’s industry partners and will be free
of charge to all attendees. Because of class size limitations,
a maximum of three participants per company will be allowed.
Plans are to repeat the short course annually during the summer
and open attendance to the public. In the future, a fee will
be charged. We trust these topics are of value to you and your
colleagues and look forward to your company's participation.
On-line registration, hotel accommodations information,
and travel information is now available on the CEBC website
at http://www.cebc.ku.edu/fallmeeting/.
September 25 is the deadline for registration for the short
course.
CEBC Short Course, 2005
Title: An Introduction to Green Solvents
Date and Location:
October 27, 2005
2:30 pm - 6:30 pm
University of Iowa
Presenters:
Dr. Daryle Busch, Deputy Director, CEBC
Dr. Brian Laird, Thrust Group Leader, CEBC
Dr. Aaron Scurto, Faculty Researcher, CEBC
Br. Bala Subramaniam, Director, CEBC
Educational Objectives:
Participants will learn:
- The key criteria for solvents/reaction media to be considered
"green"
- The desirable properties of various "green solvents
and reaction media" and how these properties can be
used to advantage in catalytic processes
- Particular advantages of CO2 expanded liquids
- Particular advantages of ionic liquids
- Fundamental behaviors and properties of these materials
- Examples of useful applications with suggestions of extensions
to other systems
- Particular advantages of CO2 expanded liquids
- Future directions of research
Course Outline:
- Green Solvents for Catalytic Processes
- Green Chemistry and Green Engineering
- Definition
- Influence of Public Pressure and Governmental
Regulations
- Desire by Chemical Manufacturers to be Good Citizens
- Definition of Green Solvents; List of Green Solvents
- For each green solvent:
- description of advantages and disadvantages
- comparisons to conventional solvents
- operating conditions issues
- product separation issues
- catalyst and solvent recycle issues
- existing commercial applications
- potential commercial applications
- environmental/economic assessments
- In-depth discussions on CO2 expanded liquids and ionic
liquids
- Why are these solvents green?
- Advantages/uniqueness compared to green solvents
listed above
- Solubilities of gases, solids, and liquids in
these media
- Computations on these solvent systems
- Solvent Issues
- Operating conditions issues
- Product separation issues
- Catalyst and solvent recycle issues
- Potential commercial applications
- Environmental/economic assessments
- Future Research Directions
Title: Assessing Your Environmental Burden and
Identifying Potential Benefits and Value
Date and Location:
October 28, 2005
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
University of Iowa
Presenter:
Gerald T. Coyle, Ph.D., Monsanto
Educational Objectives:
An enormous amount of industry's effort and cost in the environmental
arena each year is spent on controlling end-of-pipe and compliance
issues. While beneficial to both the environment and, potentially,
to industry, there are limits to this approach's effectiveness.
A new wave of "environmentalism" has begun which does
not rely on regulatory hammers, lawyers or activists. This new
wave builds compliance (and better) into the design of a chemical,
process or product. This new wave is green engineering, green
design, environmentally beneficial catalysis, etc. Learn more
about this new wave, how to benefit from it, how to think about
it, how to measure it and how it can impact your bottom line.
Course Outline:
- Introduction
- Problem Definition or Can't you just stop whining?
- Global warming
- Resource shortages
- "Genuine Progress" indicators
- Environmental regulations
- The Governing Equation
- The new approaches or What is all this "Green"
stuff?
- Green chemistry
- Green catalysis
- Green design
- Sustainability
- Measuring progress or How do I know if I'm doing the right
thing?
- Where to start
- Setting the boundaries
- Molecular Level - Risk Assessment
- Product Level - Life Cycle Assessment
- System Level - Industrial Ecology
- Tools - What is out there to help
- Environmental "Freakonomics" or Can I please
make money now?
- How do you capture costs?
- Environmental costing
- Full costing
- Conclusion - Opportunity
