The Future of Glycerol:
New usages for a versatile raw material (Workshop)

Full-day seminar: € 2,000 per person

Mario Pagliaro, co-author of The Future of Glycerol, presents the numerous uses of glycerol as a new raw material directly at your company or in the nice city of Palermo.

The course combines lecture and discussion. The optimal class size is between 5 and 10, but this tutorial can be structured to accommodate any number of participants.

The course in intended for industry's top and R&D managers as well as consultants, research chemists and engineers. Attendees are not limited to chemistry specialists; rather general, marketing and product managers can benefit as well.

A large surplus of glycerol byproduct of biodiesel production has entered the chemical market causing closure of existing glycerol plants and the discovery of processes that use glycerol as a raw material for the production of value-added chemicals and of energy.

Topic of this full-day workshop include:

  1. Bioglycerol: Economics and Sustainability
  2. Glycerol as Green Fuel
  3. Additive for Concrete
  4. Biofuel Cells Running On Glycerol
  5. Propylene Glycols
  6. Epichlorohydrin
  7. Acrolein and Acrylic Acid
  8. DHA and 1,3 PDO
  9. GTBE, New Fuel Oxygenate
  10. Esters: New Products and Processes

How To Order

Please contact Mario Pagliaro at mario.pagliaro@gmail.com if you are interested in more information or would like to request this workshop.

Usually we need two week's notice. If you need the workshop on a specific date or if international travel is involved, one month's notice would be preferable.

Prices are for courses within Italy. Courses in other countries will be more expensive. Travel costs are extra for both domestic and international destinations.

 


Back to the home page