Program, Speakers and Abstract Submission

ChemRec II – Thermochemical Recycling of Plastics

Preliminary Program

Keynote Speakers

Ahmad Al Farra
Total Energies, France

"Chemical Recycling of Plastics: From Constraint to Opportunity"

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Dr. Songbo He
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA

"Lab- and pilot-scale development of waste plastics pyrolysis at DICP"

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Dr. Andre Heeres
Hanze University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

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Matais Alvear
John Hopkins University, United States

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Dr. Helge Jaensch
ExxonMobil Chemical Europe, Inc., Belgium

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Marcel van Eijk
NTCP, The Netherlands
Maastricht University, The Netherlands

"From household waste to pyrolysis feedstock: contaminants and pretreatment"

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Kevin Van Geem
Ghent University, Belgium

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Session Descriptions

  1. Characterization and pretreatment of plastic waste feedstocks (e.g., for contaminants removal).
  2. Fundamentals of pyrolysis, liquefaction, gasification and catalytic depolymerization technologies (reaction mechanisms, reaction kinetics, product selectivity, effects of heat and mass transfer limitations, catalysis).
  3. Reactor development and modelling (testing and modelling of lab-scale units)
  4. Process development and integration (testing of fully continuous laboratory setups and pilot installations providing a full mass balance closure, including pre-treatment, reaction and product separation).
  5. Product characterization, separation and upgrading (refers to chemical characterization, isolation, purification and post treatment / upgrading of the products from pyrolysis or liquefaction to e.g., remove contaminants/impurities.
  6. Successful demonstration, scale-up and commercialization

Abstract Submission

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Poster Size:  1.5 meters (L) x 1.0 meter (W) - Portrait style.

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