Description

The symposium will take place during the KNCV spring meeting. The topic of the symposium is glycerol valorisation. With the rapidly increasing production of biodiesel, a lot of glycerol becomes available. During the symposium, various options will be presented to make valuable products from this glycerol. Both recent developments in R&D, and commercial applications will be reviewed. As there are foreign speakers, the main language of the symposium will be English

10:45 opening of symposium (Dr W.H. Hesselink)

10:50 Dr Ir. J.M.K Timmer (ETD&C) - Introduction on glycerol valorisation

11:10 Dr P. Bruijnincx (Inorganic Chemistry & Catalysis Group, Utrecht University) - Catalytic conversion of renewable feedstock: making valuable bulk chemicals from (crude) glycerol

11:40 speaker from the Arkema Group

12:15 lunch

13:15 P. Compagne (BioMCN) - Biomethanol, the other biofuel

13:45 Dr. M. Klumpe (Solvay) - Epicerol® - Using Glycerin as a renewable feedstock material for the production of Epichlorohydrin

14:15 speaker from the Oleochemical industry

14:45 close

The 2010 NPT annual meeting will take place during the KNCV spring meeting.

The meeting starts at 15:45 (in programme block 3 of the spring meeting). After the meeting, there will be drinks from the KNCV spring meeting.

The agenda and meeting documents will be published on the NPT website soon.

Location

Domstad University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht

Organiser

Dutch Process Technologists

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