The Energy Transition for the Chemicals and Materials Industry

Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | 2:30 PM
Location: 322 ISE Lab

Steam cracking is Dow’s largest energy-consuming chemical conversion process. Dow is working to electrify steam cracking by pursuing multiple alternative technologies. This presentation will compare various approaches for CO2 mitigation of the steam cracking process technology, including CO2 electroreduction, process heating with renewable electricity, and burning green hydrogen. We will also review the relative thermodynamics and energy efficiencies of CO2 capture from concentrated point sources or ambient air. We will conclude with a brief description of some steps Dow is taking to decarbonize while continuing to grow, followed by a brief look at the global commitment required to achieve substantial worldwide decarbonization by 2050.

Reaction Engineering Short Course

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Location: 366 CLB

Developed by the Core R&D Reaction Engineering group of The Dow Chemical Company and designed for chemists and engineers who operate or use data from laboratory reactors, this course contains fundamental reaction engineering knowledge essential for generating high quality data from a laboratory scale reactor. The course content includes general principles and practical tips for designing and operating laboratory reactors. The bulk of the course content focuses on stirred tank, homogeneous tubular, and fixed bed reactors for a variety of reaction systems, including homogeneous liquid phase, gas-liquid, gas-solid, liquid-solid, and gas-liquid-solid systems. At the end of this course, chemists and engineers will have a better understanding of the critical factors affecting the performance of laboratory scale reactors and the appropriate means for addressing those factors to maximize the probability of generating quality data. During this course, the instructors will introduce a publicly available tool for estimating gradients in heterogeneous catalyst particles and for sizing laboratory fixed bed reactors. This tool is the product of a collaboration between Dow and Purdue University.

Registration is required for this course. Please register here.

Heterogenous Catalytic Technologies to Decarbonize Plastic Industry

Momday, April 29, 2024 | 1:00 PM
Location: 366 CLB

Decarbonization of chemical industry has been increasingly emphasized due to the worsening of global warming and climate change. Especially, plastics are said to be one of the biggest contributors to increasing carbon emission due to their daily and single-use culture as well as the massive use of fossil fuels to produce them. Two potential solutions to this plastic problem are: to recycle the plastic to its original monomers to be re-used for the synthesis of plastics and to produce plastic monomers from the carbon-neutral feedstock such as biomass, called bio-based polymer. In this presentation, I will discuss specific two catalytic technologies to decarbonize plastic use.

Tandem Electrocatalysis – Thermocatalysts for CO2 Conversion​

Monday, April 1, 2024 | 10:00 AM
Location: 366 CLB

A Process Systems Framework for Design, Optimization, and Control of Modular Energy Systems​

Thursday, March 14, 2024 | 2:00 PM
Location: 322 Harker Lab and Zoom

Electrochemical Approaches to Decarbonizing Fuels and Chemicals

Wednesday, December 6, 2023 | 2:00 PM
Location: 366 Colburn Lab and Zoom

Advanced Catalysts for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technologies

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | 2:00 PM
Location: 366 Colburn Lab and Zoom