A Conference on Chemical Engineering Innovation has been organised ever since the Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering was created. Students propose technological innovations that deal with a social necessity or answer to a specific market opportunity. Critical thought, team work and communication abilities are addressed in this conference.

This year’s subject answers a current necessity that chemical engineering can tackle. EU will ban on throwaway plastics by 2021. As a result, new ideas are needed to reconvert the plastic industry. Some of these ideas have been proposed by our students.

There will be 6 stands in which our innovators will show the development of their last technologies. This will simulate a professional environment with interaction between the innovators and the visitors.  

Date: Tuesday, 29^th January 2019

Hour: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Place: Room 0.2.4 Higher Technical School of Engineering Universitat de València

ECOMUTE: Modular panels to acoustic isolation from once-use plastics

Tanya Carchi, Nora Laserna, Javier Guayazan

ECOSACK: Accelerated degradation bag

Miranda Sánchez, Stalin Ortega, Jorge Díez

EDICAP: Edible Casein-based primary packages

Eva Carrión, Nerea Pastor, Roberto Barceló

PLASBAB: Soluble way of packing

Josep Valero, Joel Ferrer, Eduardo Rodríguez

PYROPLAS: Pyrolysis of non-recyclable plastic waste

Ramón Jiménez, Madalina Georgiana Idriceanu

RECYPOL: Obtaining polyol from polyurethane waste

Francisco de la Cuesta, Adrián Jurjut, Yolanda Marcela Semante

11 a.m. Attendees and assessment committees welcoming

11:05 a.m. Opening Ceremony

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Workshop Project exhibition

12.30 p.m. - 1 p.m.  Award and certificate giving ceremony

1 p.m. Closing Ceremony

MOST INNOVATIE PROJECT: The best project in terms of scientific-technological basis, its impact, sustainability, transference and business model.

SCIENTIFIC-TECHNOLOGICAL BASIS: The project that best defines the scientific-technological basis in order to develop innovations in its sector.

IMPACT AND SUSTAINABILITY: The project that best defines the range and impact of the project from a user, socio-economic sustainability and environmental points of view.

TRANSFERENCE AND BUSINESS MODEL: The project with the best scientific and technological transference strategy in terms of protection and exploitation of copyright and industrial property, contractual and company obligations. The Project with the best business model.