{"597393":{"#nid":"597393","#data":{"type":"news","title":"BBISS Professor Reichmanis Publishes Article on Green Chemistry Class","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering professors Elsa Reichmanis and Mahmood Sabahi have recently published an article detailing their experience teaching a class in green chemistry.\u0026nbsp; The class is called \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/serve-learn-sustain.gatech.edu\/fundamentals-and-challenges-sustainable-chemical-enterprise\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFundamentals and Challenges for a Sustainable Chemical Enterprise\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026rdquo; and was offered in the Spring semester of 2017 (CHEM4833\/ChBE4803: CHEM8833\/ChBE8803).\u0026nbsp; It will be offered again in the Spring semester of 2018.\u0026nbsp; It is a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/serve-learn-sustain.gatech.edu\/course-affiliation-information\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EServe \u0026ndash; Learn \u0026ndash; Sustain affiliated course\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; The course was designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students so that they would understand the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nap.edu\/catalog\/11437\/sustainability-in-the-chemical-industry-grand-challenges-and-research-needs\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENational Research Council\u0026rsquo;s eight sustainability grand challenges\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from the perspective of an industry-based context, and how they contribute to the long-term sustainability of the enterprise.\u0026nbsp; In addition to the Grand Challenges, the pilot class of 26 students were introduced to chemical manufacturing, intellectual property, regulatory frameworks and registration, and process hazard and safety.\u0026nbsp; Guest speakers from companies such as Albemarle, BASF, Dow, ExxonMobil, GSK, Solvay, and PepsiCo were kind enough to donate their time to present their companies\u0026rsquo; approach to sustainability.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe primary focus of the course is for student teams to use Life cycle inventory (LCI) assessment and patent literature on existing products in the market to develop a virtual manufacturing process for the product. The students then offer\u0026nbsp;recommendations for optimizing the processes to be more sustainable. This past semester,\u0026nbsp;student groups completed nine LCI assessment projects in all. \u0026nbsp;Professors Reichmanis\u0026rsquo; and Sabahi\u0026rsquo;s paper gives details on the course objectives, approach, LCI methodology, results, conclusions, and lessons learned.\u0026nbsp; This work was supported, in part, by the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBrook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; Reichmanis was named a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/profs_fellow\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBrook Byers Professor\u003C\/a\u003E in 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more details, please see:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EElsa Reichmanis, Mahmood Sabahi, \u0026ldquo;Life Cycle Inventory Assessment as a Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering Education Tool,\u0026rdquo; ACS Sustainable Chemistry \u0026amp; Engineering, 2017, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/acssuschemeng.7b03144\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDOI: 10.1021\/acssuschemeng.7b03144\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering professors Elsa Reichmanis and Mahmood Sabahi have recently published an article detailing their experience teaching a class in green chemistry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering professors Elsa Reichmanis and Mahmood Sabahi have recently published an article detailing their experience teaching a class in green chemistry."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2017-10-13 22:52:26","changed_gmt":"2017-10-13 23:23:58","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-10-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-10-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"597394":{"id":"597394","type":"image","title":"Elsa Reichmanis Portrait","body":null,"created":"1507936760","gmt_created":"2017-10-13 23:19:20","changed":"1507936760","gmt_changed":"2017-10-13 23:19:20","alt":"Portrait of Elsa Reichmanis.","file":{"fid":"227713","name":"reichmanis.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/reichmanis.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/reichmanis.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":166986,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/reichmanis.jpg?itok=AlJ2F8Hp"}}},"media_ids":["597394"],"groups":[{"id":"244191","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"}],"keywords":[{"id":"87961","name":"Elsa Reichmanis"},{"id":"132161","name":"BBISS"},{"id":"175909","name":"bbiss professors"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brent.verrill@sustainable.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrent Verrill\u003C\/a\u003E, Communications Manager, BBISS\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["brent.verrill@sustainable.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}