Ionic Liquid Biorefining of Lignocellulose to Sustainable Polymers
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Chemistry
Abstract
We currently make more than just fuel from petroleum refining. Many of the plastics, solvents and other products that are used in everyday life are derived from these non-renewable resources. Our research programme aims to replace many of the common materials used as plastics with alternatives created from plants. This will enable us to tie together the UK's desire to move to non-petroleum fuel sources (e.g. biofuels) with our ability to produce renewable polymers and related products.
Plant cell walls are made up of two main components: carbohydrate polymers (long chains of sugars) and lignin, which is the glue holding plants together. We will first develop methods of separating these two components using sustainable solvents called ionic liquids. Ionic liquids are salts which are liquids at room temperature, enabling a variety of chemical transformations to be carried out under consitions not normally available to traditional organic solvents. These ionic liquids also reduce pollution as they have no vapours and can be made from non-toxic, non-petroleum based resources.
We will take the isolated carbohydrate polymers and break them down into simple sugars using enzymes and then further convert those sugars into building blocks for plastics using a variety of novel catalytic materials specifically designed for this process. The lignin stream will also be broken down and rebuilt into new plastics that can replace common materials. All of these renewable polymers will be used in a wide range of consumer products, including packaging materials, plastic containers and construction materials. The chemical feedstocks that we are creating will be flexible (used for chemical, material and fuel synthesis), safe (these feedstocks are predominantly non-toxic) and sustainable (most of the developed products are biodegradable). This will help reduce the overall environmental impact of the material economy in the UK.
The chemistry that we will use focusses on creating highly energy efficient and low-cost ways of making these materials without producing large amounts of waste. We are committed to only developing future manufacturing routes that are benign to the environment in which we all live. In addition, natural material sources often have properties that are superior to those created using artificial means. We plan to exploit these advantages of natural resources in order to produce both replacements for current products and new products with improved performance. This will make our synthetic routes both environmentally responsible and economically advantageous. The UK has an opportunity to take an international lead in this area due to the accumulation of expertise within this country.
The overall goal of this project is to develop sustainable manufacturing routes that will stimulate new UK businesses and environmentally responsible means of making common, high value materials. We will bring together scientific experts in designing processes, manufacturing plastics, growing raw biomass resources and developing new chemistries. The flexibility of resources is vital to the success of this endeavour, as no single plant biomass can be used for manufacturing on a year-round basis. Together with experienced leaders of responsible manufacturing industries, we will develop new ways of making everyday materials in a sustainable and economically beneficial way.
The result of this research will be a fundamental philosophical shift to our material, chemical, and energy economy. The technologies proposed in this work will help break our dependence on rapidly depleting fossil resources and enable us to become both sustainable and self-sufficient. This will result in greater security, less pollution, and a much more reliable and responsible UK economy.
Plant cell walls are made up of two main components: carbohydrate polymers (long chains of sugars) and lignin, which is the glue holding plants together. We will first develop methods of separating these two components using sustainable solvents called ionic liquids. Ionic liquids are salts which are liquids at room temperature, enabling a variety of chemical transformations to be carried out under consitions not normally available to traditional organic solvents. These ionic liquids also reduce pollution as they have no vapours and can be made from non-toxic, non-petroleum based resources.
We will take the isolated carbohydrate polymers and break them down into simple sugars using enzymes and then further convert those sugars into building blocks for plastics using a variety of novel catalytic materials specifically designed for this process. The lignin stream will also be broken down and rebuilt into new plastics that can replace common materials. All of these renewable polymers will be used in a wide range of consumer products, including packaging materials, plastic containers and construction materials. The chemical feedstocks that we are creating will be flexible (used for chemical, material and fuel synthesis), safe (these feedstocks are predominantly non-toxic) and sustainable (most of the developed products are biodegradable). This will help reduce the overall environmental impact of the material economy in the UK.
The chemistry that we will use focusses on creating highly energy efficient and low-cost ways of making these materials without producing large amounts of waste. We are committed to only developing future manufacturing routes that are benign to the environment in which we all live. In addition, natural material sources often have properties that are superior to those created using artificial means. We plan to exploit these advantages of natural resources in order to produce both replacements for current products and new products with improved performance. This will make our synthetic routes both environmentally responsible and economically advantageous. The UK has an opportunity to take an international lead in this area due to the accumulation of expertise within this country.
The overall goal of this project is to develop sustainable manufacturing routes that will stimulate new UK businesses and environmentally responsible means of making common, high value materials. We will bring together scientific experts in designing processes, manufacturing plastics, growing raw biomass resources and developing new chemistries. The flexibility of resources is vital to the success of this endeavour, as no single plant biomass can be used for manufacturing on a year-round basis. Together with experienced leaders of responsible manufacturing industries, we will develop new ways of making everyday materials in a sustainable and economically beneficial way.
The result of this research will be a fundamental philosophical shift to our material, chemical, and energy economy. The technologies proposed in this work will help break our dependence on rapidly depleting fossil resources and enable us to become both sustainable and self-sufficient. This will result in greater security, less pollution, and a much more reliable and responsible UK economy.
Planned Impact
We anticipate our work will benefit a wide range of stakeholders including: biomass growers and processors, chemical and energy companies, polymer manufacturers and compositors and the broader chemical industries, as well as consumers interested in new products developed through the exploitation of sustainable feedstocks. Our proposed project will demonstrate to this broad base of stakeholders the opportunities and benefits of novel fractionation and conversion processes, and compute performance benchmarks by which novel processes can be compared against existing process chains.
In order to ensure this impact, we have already involved several industrial (Shell, BASF, Plaxica, Biocatalysts, Johnson Matthey), institutional (IBERS, JBEI, FuBio) and policy (Climate-KIC, Grantham Institute) stakeholders in our research programme. Representatives from each of these groups will be closely involved in our research efforts, advising us on pathways to commercialisation and ensuring we maximise the impact of our research efforts.
We shall work with our stakeholders to determine the economic, institutional and technical obstacles that currently prevent a shift to renewable resource based manufacturing. This will help us overcome these obstacles and ensure smooth implementation and exploitation of the fundamental principles developed and discovered during the course of this research programme.
Public engagement on such a major social issue is crucial. In order to ensure engagement with the general public, we will use the outreach providers at our home universities and also the professional public institutes with which we are associated. These include the Porter Alliance (biorenewable resource development), Energy Futures Laboratory (bioenergy), Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Manufacturing Futures Lab (sustainable manufacturing practices) and the BSBEC Outreach Group (bioenergy crop and land-use policy). We will also engage directly with the public by building a project website containing information on renewable manufacturing and by taking advantage of Imperial College's proximity to the National Science and Natural History museums, which provide a unique opportunity to show-case research on biorefining.
As this research is primarily aimed at developing sustainable manufacturing, we anticipate a substantial impact on the future landscape of the UK manufacturing sector. The material routes and practices developed in this type of research represent potential economic impact by developing secure routes of material and chemical manufacturing within the UK. Breaking our dependence on fossil reserves will necessarily create new manufacturing industries and also reduce our dependence on imported goods.
A shift from fossil resources to renewable ones will have a positive impact on the environment, improving quality of life for everyone in the UK. This objective is concurrent with the positive economic impact; the linking of these goals is vital to the realization of either.
There is great training potential within this project. As we will be employing nine full-time researchers in the programme, we will be furthering the dissemination of sustainable manufacturing principles into the employment sector. This will influence future manufacturing directions as the propagation of these future research and development leaders into the chemical industry is inevitable.
The extensive timeline of this programme (five years) will enable us to have a sustained impact on manufacturing practices and policies, as we will be able to extend our vision into industry (through our project partners) and public policy (through our advisory institutes). Thes value of these goals cannot be overstated - the impact of academic research can only be realized if the support of government agencies and the UK public is evident. This requires long-term committments to the research principles we have outlined within this programme.
In order to ensure this impact, we have already involved several industrial (Shell, BASF, Plaxica, Biocatalysts, Johnson Matthey), institutional (IBERS, JBEI, FuBio) and policy (Climate-KIC, Grantham Institute) stakeholders in our research programme. Representatives from each of these groups will be closely involved in our research efforts, advising us on pathways to commercialisation and ensuring we maximise the impact of our research efforts.
We shall work with our stakeholders to determine the economic, institutional and technical obstacles that currently prevent a shift to renewable resource based manufacturing. This will help us overcome these obstacles and ensure smooth implementation and exploitation of the fundamental principles developed and discovered during the course of this research programme.
Public engagement on such a major social issue is crucial. In order to ensure engagement with the general public, we will use the outreach providers at our home universities and also the professional public institutes with which we are associated. These include the Porter Alliance (biorenewable resource development), Energy Futures Laboratory (bioenergy), Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Manufacturing Futures Lab (sustainable manufacturing practices) and the BSBEC Outreach Group (bioenergy crop and land-use policy). We will also engage directly with the public by building a project website containing information on renewable manufacturing and by taking advantage of Imperial College's proximity to the National Science and Natural History museums, which provide a unique opportunity to show-case research on biorefining.
As this research is primarily aimed at developing sustainable manufacturing, we anticipate a substantial impact on the future landscape of the UK manufacturing sector. The material routes and practices developed in this type of research represent potential economic impact by developing secure routes of material and chemical manufacturing within the UK. Breaking our dependence on fossil reserves will necessarily create new manufacturing industries and also reduce our dependence on imported goods.
A shift from fossil resources to renewable ones will have a positive impact on the environment, improving quality of life for everyone in the UK. This objective is concurrent with the positive economic impact; the linking of these goals is vital to the realization of either.
There is great training potential within this project. As we will be employing nine full-time researchers in the programme, we will be furthering the dissemination of sustainable manufacturing principles into the employment sector. This will influence future manufacturing directions as the propagation of these future research and development leaders into the chemical industry is inevitable.
The extensive timeline of this programme (five years) will enable us to have a sustained impact on manufacturing practices and policies, as we will be able to extend our vision into industry (through our project partners) and public policy (through our advisory institutes). Thes value of these goals cannot be overstated - the impact of academic research can only be realized if the support of government agencies and the UK public is evident. This requires long-term committments to the research principles we have outlined within this programme.
Organisations
- Imperial College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- Polymateria Ltd (Collaboration)
- Joint Bionergy Institute (Project Partner)
- Forestcluster Ltd (Project Partner)
- BASF (Germany) (Project Partner)
- Plaxica (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Shell (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Johnson Matthey (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Aberystwyth University (Project Partner)
- Biocatalysts (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
Publications
Romain C
(2016)
Carbon Dioxide and Organometallics
Romain C
(2017)
Di-Zinc-Aryl Complexes: CO2 Insertions and Applications in Polymerisation Catalysis.
in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Romain C
(2015)
Green Polymer Chemistry: Biobased Materials and Biocatalysis
Romain C
(2015)
Macrocyclic Dizinc(II) Alkyl and Alkoxide Complexes: Reversible CO2 Uptake and Polymerization Catalysis Testing.
in Inorganic chemistry
Romain C
(2016)
Chemoselective Polymerizations from Mixtures of Epoxide, Lactone, Anhydride, and Carbon Dioxide.
in Journal of the American Chemical Society
Romain DC
(2014)
Chemoselective polymerization control: from mixed-monomer feedstock to copolymers.
in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Saini P
(2014)
Di-magnesium and zinc catalysts for the copolymerization of phthalic anhydride and cyclohexene oxide
in Polym. Chem.
Saini PK
(2014)
Dinuclear metal catalysts: improved performance of heterodinuclear mixed catalysts for CO2-epoxide copolymerization.
in Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
Tai Z
(2017)
High activity magnetic core-mesoporous shell sulfonic acid silica nanoparticles for carboxylic acid esterification
in Catalysis Communications
Tai Z
(2018)
Magnetically-separable Fe3O4@SiO2@SO4-ZrO2 core-shell nanoparticle catalysts for propanoic acid esterification
in Molecular Catalysis
Taylor MJ
(2017)
Catalytic Hydrogenation and Hydrodeoxygenation of Furfural over Pt(111): A Model System for the Rational Design and Operation of Practical Biomass Conversion Catalysts.
in The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces
Thevenon A
(2016)
Innentitelbild: Dizinc Lactide Polymerization Catalysts: Hyperactivity by Control of Ligand Conformation and Metallic Cooperativity (Angew. Chem. 30/2016)
in Angewandte Chemie
Thevenon A
(2015)
Dinuclear Zinc Salen Catalysts for the Ring Opening Copolymerization of Epoxides and Carbon Dioxide or Anhydrides.
in Inorganic chemistry
Thevenon A
(2016)
Dizinc Lactide Polymerization Catalysts: Hyperactivity by Control of Ligand Conformation and Metallic Cooperativity.
in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Thevenon A
(2016)
Dizinc Lactide Polymerization Catalysts: Hyperactivity by Control of Ligand Conformation and Metallic Cooperativity
in Angewandte Chemie
Thevenon A
(2016)
Inside Cover: Dizinc Lactide Polymerization Catalysts: Hyperactivity by Control of Ligand Conformation and Metallic Cooperativity (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 30/2016)
in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Trott G
(2016)
Catalysts for CO2/epoxide ring-opening copolymerization.
in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
Ward JL
(2020)
Miyabeacin: A new cyclodimer presents a potential role for willow in cancer therapy.
in Scientific reports
Weigand L
(2017)
Effect of pretreatment severity on the cellulose and lignin isolated from Salix using ionoSolv pretreatment.
in Faraday discussions
Wilson Karen
(2014)
Tuning sulfated zirconia for the selective conversion of bioderived molecules
in ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Winkler M
(2015)
Renewable polycarbonates and polyesters from 1,4-cyclohexadiene
in Green Chemistry
Wu Y
(2016)
Acutifoliside, a novel benzoic acid glycoside from Salix acutifolia.
in Natural product research
Yu J
(2022)
On the primary pyrolysis products of torrefied oak at extremely high heating rates in a wire mesh reactor
in Applications in Energy and Combustion Science
Zhang X
(2016)
Heterogeneously Catalyzed Hydrothermal Processing of C5-C6 Sugars.
in Chemical reviews
Zhu Y
(2015)
Selective polymerization catalysis: controlling the metal chain end group to prepare block copolyesters.
in Journal of the American Chemical Society
Zhu Y
(2016)
Sustainable polymers from renewable resources.
in Nature
Description | We currently make more than just fuel from petroleum refining. Many of the plastics that are used in everyday life are derived from these non-renewable resources. The purpose of our research programme was to move us closer to being able to replace these non-renewable, non-biodegradable plastics with alternatives created from plants. The preparation of materials and products such as plastics from biomass requires the development of new chemistry and processes. To do this, we needed to work on the whole process from the first breakdown of wood into its component parts, through the processing of these into the key components of potential new bio-derived plastics to the final production of new polymers themselves. Before we embarked upon this project, we had discovered a method to break up wood into its component parts, cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, using ionic liquids. However, this method had only been demonstrated on a very small scale. In this project we have increased the scale of the process by over 100 times and optimised this process by conducting it at higher temperatures to decrease the processing time (a key requirement for commercial application) without compromising the product quality or yield. We have also shown that the process can use a wide variety of biomass inputs, with particular emphasis on the large number of variety of Willows that are available. Having separated the wood into its components, we have also shown that we can further process these into valuable building blocks for chemicals production. We can do this in a number of different ways, each with different products in mind. We have found commercially available enzymes that can convert cellulose from the process to sugar after the ionic liquid processing without the ionic liquid harming the enzymes. The tolerance of the enzymes to the ionic liquids was very much a concern before the project that we have been able to allay. We have also show that it is possible to produce other products, such as hydroxymethylfurfural, from the biomass components with physicochemical methods. We have been particularly interested in the preparation of new polymers using monomers extracted from biomass. This has proven to be highly prescient of current concerns regarding plastics in the environment. Our bio-derived polymers include materials that are biodegradable and/or recyclable. We have worked to improve understanding and to use that insight to make better catalysts and processes to prepare these polymers. In addition, there is a feedback between polymer properties and how to make them, for example in this work we targeted making biodegradable polymers with improved temperature resistance. We also invented a new type of catalysis that allows mixtures of raw materials to be selectively reacted to make completely new polymers. The properties of these polymers are currently under-investigation but they show promise as elastomers, coatings and rigid plastics, which are vital properties for a number of real-world applications. Finally, we have been looking at whether these lab scale discoveries can be turned into real process in a biomass based chemicals industry. Our multiscale modelling has shown that through a series of conversion stages, it is possible to take low value materials such as agricultural residues and turn them into renewable chemical feedstocks such as renewable polymers. |
Exploitation Route | Future developments will be to upscale these processes to enable their use in the real world. |
Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Chemicals |
Description | HyStYRIAA 2.0 - Hydrogen Storage to Energise Robotics in Air Applications 2.0 |
Amount | £350,351 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 75350 |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 12/2021 |
Description | Biodegradable Polymers |
Organisation | Polymateria Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | PhD research project student: Mr. Richard von Goetze |
Collaborator Contribution | PhD research project student: Mr. Richard von Goetze |
Impact | None as yet |
Start Year | 2016 |
Company Name | Lixea |
Description | Lixea converts waste wood into an inexpensive feedstock for biofuel production using an environmentally-friendly chemical process. |
Year Established | 2017 |
Impact | Chrysalix currently operates at pilot scale, and is not yet receiving direct income. We have raised funds for process development and have won many international prizes, including second place at the Slush CLimate Impact Battle, the EIT Change Award and third place at the Climate Launchpad. |
Website | http://www.chrysalixtechnologies.com |
Description | 250th American Chemical Society and Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Three lectures were given at the ACS meeting in Boston by the Williams group |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | 8th Workshop on Fats and Oils as Renewable Feedstock for the Chemical Industry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | keynote lecture at the meeting in Karlsruhe Germany |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Bio-Environmental Polymer Society BEPS 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited keynote lecture at the BEPS 2015 in Karlsruhe |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Dalton Young Researchers Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr Pike lectured on his research at the conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Demonstration |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation at the UK Ministry for Transportation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Frontiers in Green Materials Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 2 lectures at the symposium in London and posters to present our findings |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Gordon Research Conference: Organometallic Chemistry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Two posters presented at the GRC and GRS (lecture) in USA in 2015 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Imperial College Festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The Williams group ran an interactive 'stall' at the imperial college festival. We demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be transformed into products using a series of show-case examples, experiments and hands-on demonstrations for the general public. The total participation at the festival was 15,000 people. we also participated in a special 'schools' event just before the festival opened where we demonstrated our science to primary school children |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Imperial Fringe |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Participation at Imperial Festival |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016 |
Description | Invited and keynote lecture at 21 st Bioenvironmental Polymer Society Conference (Warwick) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Discussions with academics and industrialists New collaboration formed with Michael Meier which resulted in a research exchange of Dr Mathias Winkler to Imperial College in 2014 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.beps.org/warwick.html |
Description | Invited lecture at 10th IUPAC International Conference on Advanced Polymers via Macromolecular Engineering (Durham); |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | New collaborations with academics in Sweden discussions see above |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.iupac.org/publications/ci/2012/3405/ca4_18.08.13.html |
Description | Invited speaker at Industry and Parliament Trust, Parliamentary Programme on the diversification of energy sources and energy mix (Portcullis House, Westminster, 2015) ? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker at Industry and Parliament Trust, Parliamentary Programme on the diversification of energy sources and energy mix (Portcullis House, Westminster, 2015). Breakfast meeting with Industrialists, policy makers and politicians. ? |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.energy-uk.org.uk/publication.html?task=file.download&id=5488 |
Description | Keynote lecture at Macro Group Young Researcher's Symposium, Nottingham |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Discussions with students New applications to my research group |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.macrogroup.org.uk/meeting/ |
Description | Lecture at HPRG Meeting in Pott Shrigley |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Discussions and new collaborations formed (sheffield) new collaboration formed with academics at sheffield |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.highpolymer.org.uk/ |
Description | Lecture at the graduate school professional skills course for Imperial College London and MIT PG students |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Discussions about an academic career and about entrepreneurship see above |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Oral presentation at the 18th International Zeolite Conference, 19-24 June 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Oral conference presentation by Wilson K: Hydrothermally stable, conformal sulfated zirconia monolayer catalysts for sustainable chemical processes", Amin Osatiashtiani, Adam F. Lee, Karen Wilson, 18th International Zeolite Conference, 19-24 June 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Oral presentation at the Workshop Biomass Resources for Renewable Energy Production, 2nd-3rd June, 2016 IMDEA Energy Institute Móstoles - Madrid |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Karen Wilson, Catalyst design for biorefining - Workshop BIOMASS RESOURCES FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY PRODUCTION, 2nd-3rd June, 2016 IMDEA Energy Institute Móstoles - Madrid |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Plenary Lecture 'Catalytic Technologies for the Production of Bioproducts and Biofuels' at CCESC 2016 'Catalysts for Clean Energy and Sustainable Chemistry', (Madrid 2016) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Plenary lecture at international conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.ccesc2016.net/ |
Description | Policy Briefing Document |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Author of policy briefing document: Using Carbon Dioxide |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation at the American Chemical Society National Meeting special symposium on Green Polymer Chemistry: Biobased Materials and Biocatalysis |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Discussions with industrialists and academics Book Chapter written in collaboration with other speakers - for the ACS symposium series New collaborations likely Invitations to collaborate |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://abstracts.acs.org/chem/248nm/meetingview.php?page=session&par_id=713 |
Description | RSC Main Group Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Lecture at the conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Smart Biorefinery: Outlook and Prospects (University of Warwick workshop) July 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Oral presentation vy Dr Amin Osatiashtiani entitled 'Designing heterogeneous catalysts for biorefining' at University of Warwick workshop on the 'Smart Biorefinery: Outlook and Prospects Date: 7 July 2016 Led to increased interest in the potential of tailored catalysts in biorefinery applications. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | UK Catalysis Conference 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at the Uk Catalysis Conference, 2016, Loughborough |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum. Presentation on measuring sustainability |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation and discussion on sustainability metrics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Uk Catlaysis Conference 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr Garcia Trenco gave a lecture at the conference in 2015 in Loughborough |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |