Season 4 Episode 9 - Dr. Katrina Knauer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and BOTTLE Consortium
PlastChicks Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri with guest Dr. Katrina Knauer, Program Manager, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and CTO of BOTTLE Consortium discuss attaining your ideal job in your plastics career, the challenge of deconstructing plastics to get useful chemicals out of the process without requiring high amounts of energy, and a chemical and biological tandem technology process to bring waste carbons back into a new lifetime.
PlastChicks Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri with guest Dr. Katrina Knauer, Program Manager, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and CTO of the BOTTLE (Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment) Consortium discuss attaining your ideal job in your plastics career; Katrina’s research into deconstructing plastics to get useful chemicals and building blocks out of the process -- pure and useful monomers -- without needing energy-intensive processes; and low-energy, tandem design of chemical and biological processes to convert highly contaminated mixed waste into high-value polymers used for a variety of biodegradable products.
Find out more about the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NERL) and the BOTTLE™ Consortium.
Watch the podcast at the SPE YouTube site.
PlastChicks is sponsored by SPE-Inspiring Plastics Professionals and is posted the first Friday of every month.
Find out more about the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NERL) and the BOTTLE™ Consortium.
Watch the podcast at the SPE YouTube site.
PlastChicks is sponsored by SPE-Inspiring Plastics Professionals and is posted the first Friday of every month.
