Organizers: Se Ryeon Lee, Research Group Leader, PPG; Kristin Nuzzio, PPG; Chad Landis, PPG
Customers are increasingly aware of the environmental impact of products they buy and use. As a response to this, a major driver in industrial innovation is sustainability to fulfill both customer needs and anticipate regulatory changes. This session will focus on highlighting industrial product design and process development with respect to sustainability, which may include energy savings, cost savings, water reduction, solvent reduction, sustainable feedstocks, and lowering CO2 emissions. Presentations describing specific examples or case studies of successful product development and/or challenges involved with commercialization are particularly welcome.
Formulating high-performance consumer products using green and sustainable chemistry approaches requires the development of innovative, effective components that possess little or a reduced toxicity profile, the potential for ready degradability after use, no potential for bioaccumulation, and an overall increased sustainability profile. This session is intended to provide a forum to share case studies and success stories of green and sustainable chemistry approaches to more sustainable ingredients used in formulated household and personal care products. A few of the ideas to be addressed include:
Descriptions of raw material innovations and how these may be formulated into products
Compelling examples of creating value through new chemical innovation that facilitates increased sustainability performance
Examples of how trends in ingredient disclosure has driven new chemical development
Examples of how systems thinking is used in chemical development to enhance positive benefits passed on to consumers and the environment
Research groups working in the following categories highlighted by the ACS GCI Formulators’ Roundtable’s 2015 Green Chem. publication, and prioritized by the Roundtable, are intended to be the main speakers in this session:
Antimicrobials
Surfactants
Solvents (for use in formulated household and personal care products, not for synthesis)
Chelants and sequestering agents
**This is intended to primarily be a graduate student session. Students accepted to speak in this session will receive a travel award, provided by the ACS GCI Formulators’ Roundtable.** Get the details of the Travel Awards here.
Everyone else submitting an abstract for this session will be reviewed as part of normal abstract submission process.
