Sustainable Construction Materials: Accelerating Analytical Methods, Models, and Means of Manufacturing to Reduce Carbon Footprint and Embodied Energy
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Sustainability represents a vital aspect of our modern world, particularly within materials science and manufacturing. Of particular interest are construction materials (e.g., concrete, mass timber, steel, etc.) for which manufacturing exceeds 10 billion tons/year and from which approximately 11% of global CO2 emissions stem. Several key indicators have been promoted to benchmark sustainable construction materials including carbon footprint (CO2e) and embodied energy (GJ/kg or GJ/m2); however, analytical methods and models to empirically and theoretically determine these metrics are immature. To facilitate collaboration across government, academia, and industry, this symposium will highlight the existing scientific and regulatory terminology describing sustainable construction materials, innovative analytical methods to quantify greenhouse gasses associated with their generation and operation, novel techno-economic models used to estimate benchmarking metrics, and emergent green manufacturing strategies.
Following the Symposium, a networking lunch will be hosted by the chair at Victory Brewing Company (1776 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy) to facilitate further conversation and discussion regarding an analytical approach to sustainable construction materials.
Organizer: Matthew Glasscott - US Army Corps of Engineers
Biography: Dr. Matthew Glasscott is a Research Chemist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center Environmental Lab (ERDC-EL). In this role he endeavors to equip Soldiers and citizens with sustainable, electrochemically engineered technologies to solve complex problems related to environmental Analysis, climate change Mitigation, and renewable Power (AMP).
Matt received his B.S. in Chemistry from Grove City College in 2016 and transitioned to industry, where he managed the production of Unilever’s Vaseline® for Sonneborn LLC. Matt then matriculated into the Analytical Chemistry doctoral program at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated with a PhD in 2021 from the Jeffrey Dick Lab. Matt has published over 25 peer reviewed manuscripts and 1 textbook chapter, and is a Certified Chemical Engineer (CChE) through the American Institute of Chemists.
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Jason Widegren Jason Widegren - NIST
Judith Vidal - National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Paul Kempler - University of Oregon, Oregon Center for Electrochemistry
Mo Li - University of California Irvine
Matthew Glasscott - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Solid-State and Gas-Phase NMR Spectroscopy as a Combined Method for Characterizing Physical and Chemical Adsorption of CO2 in Novel Cements and other Adsorbent Materials
Jason Widegren - National Institute of Standards and Technology
Direct reduction of metal oxides to metals for sustainable manufacturing
Paul Kempler - University of Oregon
Advanced Manufacturing of Sustainable Cement and Cementitious Materials
Mo Li - University of California, Irvine
Sustainable Construction Materials: Building Bridges of Collaboration between Government, Academia, and Industry
Matthew Glasscott - US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
Sustainable Construction Materials: Accelerating Analytical Methods, Models, and Means of Manufacturing to Reduce Carbon Footprint and Embodied Energy
Description
Session Number: S03-00
Session Type: Symposium
Session Date: Sunday 3/19/2023
Session Time: 8:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Room Number: 115C
Track: Industry & Manufacturing
Category: Biodegradability/Sustainability, Industry/Manufacturing, Material Science
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