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Theme |
| Theme: | Land / Water (T10) |
| Status: | Active |
| Start Date: | 2023-04-01 |
| End Date: | 2026-06-30 |
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| Principal Investigator |
| Meanwell, Michael |
Project Overview
Plastic waste has immense untapped potential as a green energy alternative to petroleum feedstocks. Polyethylene and polypropylene, two of the most common type of plastics, consist of long hydrocarbon chains that when broken down into much smaller hydrocarbon fragments can be used as fuels. Pyrolysis, a chemical process requiring extremely high temperatures (~500°C) and considerable energy input, has been employed for chemical recycling of plastic waste to moderate success. This proposal seeks to invent a sequence of electrochemical processes that enable the controlled degradation of polyethylene- and polypropylene-based plastics into short-chained hydrocarbons that can be used as hydrocarbon fuels in various energy systems.
Outputs
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| Electrochemical deutero-(di)carboxylations for the preparation of deuterium-labeled medicinal building blocksThere remains immense interest in developing CO2 valorization strategies for converting low-value, hydrocarbon feedstocks into high-value commodities for applications in the pharmaceutical industry. We developed a new procedure for electrochemical reduction of CO2 for incorporation into hydrocarbon feedstocks. This helps advance the fundamental understanding of electrochemical CO2 reduction.
I just wanted to note that this project fell out of the main FES project where we observed some interesting reactivity with CO2. So we decided to follow it up and develop it into a complete protocol since CO2 utilization is a priority of FES. FES is listed as the funder of this publication. | Publication | 2025-01-01 | Subhojit Mondal, Sahil, Alex Brown, Michael W Meanwell |
