Helping decarbonize the plastic chemicals industry by developing a new reactor that relies on solar energy will be the focus of a Department of Energy (DOE)-funded project led by the University of Maine.
Justin Lapp, a UMaine assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is spearheading the effort to create the novel thermochemical reactor that could eliminate almost all greenhouse gas emissions from the process used to make light olefins, chemicals like ethylene and propylene that serve as precursors to plastic. The DOE awarded $400,000 for the project.
Other researchers involved in the project include Thomas Schwartz, a UMaine associate professor of chemical engineering, and…
UMaine researchers aim to help decarbonize plastic chemicals industry with new reactor that relies on solar energy – UMaine News
