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Journal of Environmental Waste Management and Recycling | Volume 1
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March 05-06, 2018 | London, UK
Recycling & Waste Management
5th International Conference on
Sustainable manufacturing is one of the grand challenges
of the 21st century. It has recently been realized that
conventional downstream separation processes are
unsustainable because they can account for as much as 80%
of the total manufacturing costs and eventually contribute
50% of the industrial energy usage. With profit margins
growing thin, there is an imperative drive for minimizing
both the cost and environmental impact via process
intensification (PI). PI through minimizing solvent and raw
material consumption, as well as utilizing waste, can make
a significant difference towards environmentally benign and
economically viable chemical production. As effective PI
tools, nanofiltration and molecular imprinting technologies
are getting recognized as emerging technologies that
provide green process engineering. The presentation covers
the development of sustainable separation processes based
on nanofiltration and imprinted materials. Examples and
industrial case studies for solvent recovery and recycling,
yield enhancement, purity improvement, valorization of
agricultural waste are discussed Imprinted materials offer
unique separations including three-way fractionation of
solutes in organic media. Synergistic coupling of imprinting
and nanofiltration technologies for hybrid processes will be
demonstrated. Examples will demonstrate that separation
processes based on nanofiltration and molecular imprinting
can reduce carbon footprint by 90% and process mass
intensity by 99%.
Speaker Biography
Gyorgy Szekely received his MEng degree in Chemical Engineering from the
Technical University of Budapest, and he earned his PhD degree in Chemistry under
the European Commission’s Marie Curie Actions from the Technical University of
Dortmund. He worked as an Early Stage Researcher in Hovione PharmaScience and
an IAESTE Fellow at the University of Tokyo. He was a Research Associate working
with Andrew Livingston on molecular level separations in Imperial College London.
He is currently a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at The University of Manchester.
His multidisciplinary professional background covers supramolecular chemistry,
molecular recognition, molecular imprinting, process development, waste utilization,
nanofiltration and pharmaceutical impurity scavenging. He serves as an Academic
Editor for the journal Advanced Materials Letters, the Secretary General for the Marie
Curie Fellows Association, and a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has
over 40 publications including 4 patents and 4 book chapters.
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Gyorgy Szekely
The University of Manchester, UK
Nanofiltration and molecular imprinting for waste utilization