REMADE Academy Training
Tuesday, OctOBER 24 | 12:30-5:00pm ET
REMADE members are invited and encouraged to attend any or all of our three pre-event REMADE Academy training sessions held in the CIMS Conference Center on RIT’s main campus on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, the day prior to our 2023 Member Meeting. See below for descriptions of each course, as well as a biography of each instructor. Choose which sessions you want to attend when completing your 2023 Member Meeting registration form here.
How to Sign Up FOR TRAINING:
Fill Out the Registration Form to confirm your attendance and choose the sessions you’d like to attend. Register Here >
Pay the Member Meeting Registration Fee
12:30pm - 2:30pm ET
Green Chemistry: Accelerating R&D while achieving Sustainability Goals
Speaker: John Warner Read Bio >
The principles of green chemistry are tools to help create products with superior performance cost effectively. This session will provide a working overview of green chemistry by one of the founders of the field. Illustrations from commercialized real-world examples across many different sectors will be used to help participants better understand how to incorporate green chemistry principles into their R&D program.
3:00pm - 5:00pm ET
Chemical Recycling of Plastics
Speaker: Paschalis Alexandridis Read Bio >
Plastics are widely used across industries such as food, beverage, textile, healthcare, automotive, aerospace, construction, and agriculture. Only a small fraction of the plastics used is being recycled. In the US, 44 million tons of plastic waste were managed in 2019, with 86% landfilled and only 5% recycled. There is great interest nowadays in increasing the recycling of plastic waste. Mechanical recycling is currently the prevalent method used to recycle plastic waste, however, this method is efficient for rather homogeneous and non-contaminated plastic waste, and for easily identifiable objects such as bottles. A solution for recycling many of the plastics which mechanical recycling fails to process comes from chemical recycling, also known as advanced recycling or molecular recycling, which typically involves the deconstruction of polymers to monomers or to intermediates that can be used for re-building polymers or as chemical feedstock or fuel. This session aims to introduce various chemical recycling technologies, i.e., purification, depolymerization, low-temperature and high-temperature thermo-chemical conversion, indicate the specific polymeric feedstocks suitable for each technology, and the products they produce, and highlight the role chemical recycling technologies play in the broader recycling, chemical, and petrochemical industries.
3:00pm - 5:00pm ET
Intro to Systems Analysis: Systems Thinking, Tools, & Examples from REMADE Projects
Speaker: Barbara Reck Read Bio >
The REMADE Institute uses systems analysis tools to measure how its research projects address the Institute’s ambitious technical performance metrics. REMADE seeks to reduce the embodied energy in manufacturing through a combination of material efficiency strategies that include lifetime extension, remanufacturing, and improvements in recycling to grow the share of secondary feedstocks in material production. This session demonstrates how material flow analysis is used to measure the circularity of material use, how life cycle analysis informs about the related greenhouse gas emissions, and how techno-economic analysis is used to understand and optimize the economics of emerging technologies. Examples from REMADE projects will be provided for all REMADE material classes.