The concept of circular economy matters more now than ever. With the increase of resource scarcity as the world population continues to grow, shifting from a linear production model of “take-make-waste” to a circular sustainability model of “make-use-reuse/recycle” is imperative. The economic and environmental benefits that the circular economy concept is emphasizing rely heavily on how process design and integration can capture the high material and energy efficiency in the production of new products and recycling of resources. This session will showcase multiple angles of how circular economy criteria has been applied to process development, from the use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to evaluate the viability of a hypothetical process to examples of developed processes that implement circular design to maximize material and energy usage while minimizing environmental impact.
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Session Chairs:
- Kil Ho Lee, Dow
- Thu Vi, Dow
Schedule:
| Time | Presentation | Speaker |
| 9:00am - 9:25am | Circles, lines and bars: bringing life cycle thinking to evaluating circular economy concepts | Rich Helling, Dow |
| 9:25am - 9:50am | Carbon Recycling with LanzaTech’s Gas Fermentation Process | Allan Gao, Lanzatech |
| 9:50am - 10:15am | Process Design and Demonstration of the Plasco GPRSTM: A zero-waste omnivorous conversion process for the circular economy | Marc Bacon, Plasco Conversion Technologies |