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ORLANDO
SECTION NEWSLETTER
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Vol. 13, No.
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American
Chemical Society |
April 2008 |
There will be two
Section meetings this month. The first will be at Florida
Tech in Melbourne on Thursday, April 17. The second
meeting will be held on Monday, April 21
at Rollins College.
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APRIL PROGRAM at Florida Tech
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Where: Lecture Room PS 140, Physical Sciences
Building
Florida Institute of Technology
150 W University Blvd
Melbourne, FL 32901
Time: 5:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. William F. Carroll
Topic: “From Garbage to Stuff: How We Recycle
Plastics”
The
Orlando Local Section has partnered with Daytona Beach
College to sponsor two activities with former ACS
President William Carroll, Jr. The first will be a
presentation hosted by Florida Tech as given above,
which is open to Section members and the general public.
The second activity will be a seminar held at Daytona
Beach College on Friday, April 18th for students and
faculty members. Dr. Carroll will also be meeting with
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Abstract of the Talk
Is
that recycling bin the springboard to giving material a new life or
is it simply a blue wastebasket? What about surplus materials from
industrial processes? Do they find their way out the back door to
the landfill? This presentation discusses the four critical steps in
recycling-- collection, separation, reprocessing and
remanufacture-and how they relate to plastics. The technology, the
cost and the efficacy of the processes all matter. And the operative
word, plastics, really is plural. Presentation includes a primer in
the basic kinds of plastics, how they differ and how they're used in
common articles, especially packaging. The presenter brings a few
common articles for demonstrations, and promises not to recycle an
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About
the Speaker
William F.
Carroll, Ph.D.
Dr.
William F. Carroll, Jr. holds a B.A. in Chemistry and Physics from
DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, an M.S. from Tulane University
in New Orleans, and a Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington,
IN, majoring in Organic Chemistry. Bill started his industry career
in 1978 and after a year with Rohm and Haas Company, Bristol, PA,
moved to what is now known as Occidental Chemical Corporation. He is
currently Vice President, Chlorovinyl Issues for OxyChem and works
on public policy issues and communications related to chlorine and
PVC. He is also Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana and teaches polymer chemistry
there. Dr. Carroll is a past President (2005) of the American
Chemical Society, a member of the ACS Budget and Finance Committee,
and past chair of its International Activities Committee. He is a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a member of the US
National Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry, and chair of the Science Advisory Board for DePauw
University. He has been an active member of and chaired various
committees for a number of chemistry, plastics, fire protection and
recycling organizations. He has served on expert groups commissioned
by the United Nations Environmental Program, the State of Florida,
and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. Dr. Carroll
received the Vinyl Institute’s Roy T. Gottesman Leadership Award for
lifetime achievement in 2000. He holds two patents, and has over
forty publications in the fields of organic electrochemistry,
polymer chemistry, combustion chemistry and physics, incineration,
dioxin, plastics recycling and chlorine issues.
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The annual FAME meeting
will be held in May in Orlando. For more information, please see
http://membership.acs.org/F/Florida/fame2008.html
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Second Program
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APRIL PROGRAM at Rollins College
Date: Monday, April 21, 2008
Where: Bieberbach Reed Conference Room
Cornell Campus Center
Rollins College
Winter Park, FL 32789
Time: 7:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. R. Paul Philp
Joe and
Robert Klabzuba Chair in Geology and Geophysics
George Lynn Cross Research
Professor
School of
Geology and Geophysics
University of Oklahoma
Topic: “Environmental Forensics, or Who Was Responsible
for the Spill?”
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Abstract of the Talk
As soon as organic compounds are spilled into the environment,
changes will start to occur to them as a result of weathering
process. For example, with crude oils, changes will range from
evaporation and loss of light ends to extensive biodegradation and
loss of many of the compounds typically used for correlating spilled
oils with their original source. As a result of these weathering
processes, it is often difficult to correlate the spilled oils with
their suspected sources. There are a number of sophisticated
techniques available for this type of forensic geochemistry which
can be used for correlating weathered samples with their respective
source materials. In this talk specific emphasis will be directed
towards the most recent technique for use in this area, namely gas
chromatography combined with isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GCIRMS).
Other applications will be described to demonstrate that GCIRMS can
also be used to determine the source of leaks from underground
storage tanks and sources of gases from leaking pipelines.
Variations in the isotopic composition of the MTBE added to gasoline
also provides the opportunity of using GCIRMS as a means of
monitoring, and determination of the source of, gasoline spills from
underground storage tanks.
About the Speaker
R. Paul Philp, Ph.D.
Dr. Philp received a Ph.D. in
organic chemistry from the University of Sydney (Australia) in 1972
and, more recently, a D.Sc. degree from the same University in 1998.
He spent one and a half years as a post-doctoral fellow with
Professor G. Eglinton at the University of Bristol (England),
undertaking research in various aspects of organic geochemistry and
the application of analytical techniques such as gas
chromatography-mass spectrometry to this area of research. Following
this, he spent four years at the University of California, Berkeley,
as a research associate, directing the organic geochemistry research
group of Professor Melvin Calvin. He returned to Sydney in 1977 to
join the CSIRO, Fuel Geoscience Unit, now part of the Division of
Fossil Fuels, where he was a principal research scientist studying
various aspects of petroleum geochemistry. In June 1984, Professor
Philp joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma. The major
theme of his research during the past 15 years has been directed at
the application of organic chemistry to fossil fuel research. The
second major area of research has been the characterization of
source rocks, coals, and oil shales using microscale pyrolysis
techniques combined directly with gas chromatography-mass
spectrometry. More recently a large amount of his work has been
concerned with environmental studies, particularly investigating the
use of stable carbon isotopes as a means of monitoring and tracking
pollutants in the environment. Professor Philp is also the associate
editor of Chem. Geol. and has served as the chairman of the
Geochemistry Division of the American Chemical Society.
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The annual
FAME meeting will be held in May in Orlando. For more information,
please see http://membership.acs.org/F/Florida/fame2008.html |
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