Workshops

Information on the most recent workshops can be found here. To learn about upcoming regional/national workshops, please browse through our calendar of events.

Module 1 (PowerPoint, 650 KB). Environmental Literacy: Environmental Issues, Risk Exposure, and Regulations
Module 2 (PowerPoint, 198 KB). Evaluating Environmental Partitioning and Fate: Approaches based on chemical structure
Module 3 (PowerPoint, 355KB). Evaluation of Alternative Reaction Pathways
Module 4 (PowerPoint, 1.04 MB). Environmental Evaluation and Improvement During Process Synthesis
Module 5 (PowerPoint, 751 KB). Process Integration of Heat and Mass
Module 6 (PowerPoint, 865 KB). Flowsheet Environmental Impact Assessment
Module 7. Life Cycle Assessment

Module content included the following:

Part I: An evaluation of the basic chemistry commonly used, introduction to risk of process (Chapter 2), assessment of chemical hazard (Chapter 5), worker exposure (Chapter 6), evaluation of alternative synthetic pathways (Chapter 7), and toxicity analysis - including bioaccumulation and persistence (Chapter 8).

Part II: The establishment of a conceptual flowsheet and its potential emissions (Chapter 8), identification of waste streams, and process modifications (Chapter 9).

Part III: An examination of process integration (heat exchange/mass exchange), primarily concentrating on water integration and incorporating pinch technology (Chapter 10 and Chapter 11).

Two chemical reactions were utilized to illustrate these concepts: adipic acid from cyclohexane and the production of maleic anhydride.

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April 19-22, 2004
National Environmental Assistance Summit
Wyndham Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland
At this meeting, participants discussed a successful green engineering workshop held in Gainesville, Florida in June 2003 and provided information on how to conduct a green engineering workshop in other areas. Materials available for download include the meeting presentation, information on green engineering educational modules, a one-pager about the green engineering program, the University of Florida sustainability syllabus, a follow-up survey, and the Florida work plan for the project.

June 1-2 2003
Green Engineering Educators Workshop
Gainesville, Florida
More than 50 people attended the first statewide green engineering educators workshop. Cosponsored by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), EPA Region 4, the University of Florida, and EPA’s Green Engineering program, this workshop presented information on how to incorporate green engineering concepts into course curricula.

“The workshop has greatly enhanced the material I can show to my students and use myself. I have used some of it when doing presentations and lectures in different countries in South America. The experience was great. I hope they will consider coming back to Gainesville again.” Dr. Cristian Cardenas

“As you may recall, a group of us from the ‘Undergraduate Research Center for Cutting-Edge Technologies’ (URCCET) participated in the workshop. The core of the center’s research initiatives in a focus on sustainable development.” Ms. Tarsha Dargan

May 18-22, 2003
Green Engineering: Defining the Principles Conference (36K PDF)
Sandestin, FL
Engineering Conferences International (ECI), a not-for-profit partnership between the Engineering Conferences Foundation and Polytechnic University, has teamed with technical co-sponsor American Society of Chemical Engineers, to bring a weeklong research conference on the definition of underlying principles for Green Engineering. The goal of the conference was to establish a set of Green Engineering Principles that can serve to guide engineers in the design of products and processes within the constraints placed on them by business and society, such as safety and cost requirements.

January 22-24, 2003
P2 Framework/PBT Profiler Workshop
EPA Region 8, Denver, CO
EPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) developed computer-based methods that derive important risk assessment information based on chemical structure and other factors. These methods provide information on physical/chemical properties, environmental fate, potential carcinogenicity, and toxicity to aquatic organisms, worker and general population exposures, among other data. The P2 Framework/PBT Profiler Workshop demonstrated the use of several risk assessment models using personal computers.

November 4, 2001 @ Annual AIChE Meeting, Reno, NV
Twenty-four participants from twenty universities attended the workshop held at the Annual AIChE Meeting in Reno, NV.

July 29, 2001 @ Virginia Tech, Roanoke, VA
This workshop was held prior to the Green Engineering Conference at Virginia Tech. There were eighteen participants from 12 schools in a variety of disciplines including Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering and professional engineers.

Three workshops were held in the month of July 2000:

Ø July 6 @ Michigan Technological University (MTU), Houghton, MI
Ø July 18 @ University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Ø July 25 @ University of Reno in Nevada, Reno, NV

Forty-eight 'student' professors represented 35 schools from across the nation. Disciplines in addition to Chemical Engineering included Biomedical Engineering, Social Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, and Bioresource Engineering.

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The following pie charts illustrate the strong points and weaknesses that the attendees found from attending the July 2000 workshops.

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