NSW JCEC

08/02/2024

Hybrid event: The Challenge of Circular Economy - Recycling Refrigerant 410A
Tuesday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:30 AEDT

Recycling valuable material to extend its useful life is key to a Circular Economy and Sustainability, but is this just a lofty ideal? This talk will look at a real-world example of such an aspiration and the chemical engineering challenges to be faced if this is not to be just rhetoric.

The refrigerant R410A is designed to replace certain ozone-depleting chlorinated alternatives but has turned out to have significant greenhouse gas potential. It is an azeotropic 50:50 mixture of 2 hydrofluorocarbons, namely R32 and R125, which represent low and high GHG potentials, respectively. While it makes sense to recycle the good and to destroy the bad, the policy in Australia favors total destruction.
The talk will examine the best of these and also offer the speaker’s alternative process for review.
Join online or if you are in Sydney face to face>>https://icheme.eventsair.com/recycling-refrigerant-410a-by-separation-into-its-good-and-bad-ghg-components

15/09/2022

Join us for JCEC's annual postgraduate championship on Wednesday 21st September where you will get the chance to listen to postgraduate finalists present some of their exciting and complex research.
Register to attend as an audience member here:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/nsw-jcec-annual-postgraduate-championship-2022-tickets-395030275187

11/08/2022

We know the world is changing day by day. With water becoming more valuable as a resource – and contrastingly more terrifying as a force of nature – how will the industry adapt?

A collaboration between IChemE and EA brings you a panel discussion with industry experts about the Water Industry trends and challenges followed by a night of networking over food and drinks.

Join us at WSP’s Sydney office on the 18th of August for an opportunity to learn, question, connect, and grow as professionals and water enthusiasts. Register in the link below.

Hosted by the Joint Chemical Engineering Committee(JCEC)New South Wales

05/07/2022

Don't forget to register to the exciting talk tomorrow about lab grown meat products! Join us as Vow Foods share their process of building a pilot plant to design and create meat products "from the cell up"!

https://www.bigmarker.com/IChemEAust/Building-a-sustainable-and-ethical-food-bio-manufacturing-business-cultured-meat-in-record-time?fbclid=IwAR0R-eV65G6Kv-yK4UT8_8zKCk4Ol2vVbk_dRiXsFOqB3_L1riCEMlQo34Y

Food culture is an integral part of most societies, eating fulfills emotional and social needs in addition to providing nourishment. To produce enough food for a rapidly growing population is a global challenge. Vow (Foods) is on a mission to make sustainable food both irresistible and available to....

21/06/2022

Vow is a cultured meat company that aims to create totally new and highly desirable food unlike anything before it. Tissue biopsies were taken from non-domesticated animal species and cells isolated that can be grown into meat products. By designing meat products “from the cell up”, Vow create foods with totally new flavours, aromas, shapes and textures.

Join Tom Taranto and Victoria Prior as they share their experience and the story of how Vow plans to meet its goal to produce 1 tonne of cultured meat in 2022 having only installed its pilot plant recently and tracking towards becoming fully operational by end of June!

Join our webinar on the 7th of July at 6pm to hear about the challenges in procuring, installing, commissioning and operating this plant on a tight deadline. This is the story of the people and ideas that are building a sustainable and ethical food biomanufacturing business, in record time, right here in Australia.

Food culture is an integral part of most societies, eating fulfills emotional and social needs in addition to providing nourishment. To produce enough food for a rapidly growing population is a global challenge. Vow (Foods) is on a mission to make sustainable food both irresistible and available to....