ROSEI Seminar: Erick Gamas

Description

Erick Gamas, senior engineering consultant at The Business Shop — Chemical Engineering Services, will give a talk titled "C2P-R3T Technologies: From Crude to Plastics; Recover-Reuse-Repurpose-Transform" for the Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI). At The Business Shop, Gamas supports projects in oil refining, hydrogen economy, and plastics processing. Learn more about the speaker.

Agenda:

• Crude oil industry: from the ground to plastics and chemicals
• Crude oil refining and petrochemicals: from crude oil to fuels and chemicals
• The industry of plastics: new materials building modern societies
• C2P-R3T technologies: effective engineering solutions for a critical global challenge
• C2P-R3T technologies: from innovation to the market

Synthetic plastics have become an integral part of all activities and structures in modern societies since their introduction in the early 1920s. From utilization in applications to transportation, health, and comfort in highly industrialized societies, to basic applications for carrying water, clothing, and building shelter in remote areas of the world, synthetic plastics have become a significant and indispensable part of life.

The very same chemical stability that made synthetic plastics a powerful driver for human safety, health, and comfort, has become an astounding challenge as disposable plastic materials have accumulated in all areas of the globe. What was once a marvel of Innovation and Engineering, represents now a highly troublesome technical and economical challenge due to pollution of air, land, and water at all scales. From plastic bags and used soda bottles, to microplastics found in the bodies of animals and human subjects, the need for effective economical solutions to collect and reprocess plastic waste has become an ever present and urgent challenge for all societies.

The C2P-R3T approach presents an integrated approach to start addressing pollution of Nature by synthetic plastics. The C2P-R3T strategies can lead to innovative techniques and processes to structure effective collection and segregation of plastics by chemical structures, to practical applications to reuse materials, chemical treating to turn plastics back to their original structures (depolymerization) or chemical conversion into useful materials giving new life to the same chemical elements.