ReSolve Stakeholder Workshop
(Presentation slides are now available. Click here to download. )
As a part of ReSolve project, a stakeholder workshop was happend on 30th September 2019, in Brussels. The workshop was a pre-conference event at EFIB 2019. In this workshop, the project partners discussed the project results and the challenges of solvent substitution and bringing new bio-based solvents into the market.
Workshop Programme
12:00 Lunch and registration
13:00 Session 1: Safer solvent substitution
Dr Petra Hogervorst (RIVM, the Netherlands)
Integral assessment of safety and sustainability
Dr Jane Murray (Merck KgaA, Germany)
Commercial introduction of novel green solvents to the global scientific community
14:00 Coffee beak
14:15 Session 2: ReSolve project results so far
Prof. James Clark (University of York, United Kingdom)
Introduction and highlights
Dr Barbara van Vugt-Lussenburg (BioDetection Systems, the Netherlands)
An integrated testing strategy to evaluate toxicological safety issues of candidate solvents
Dr Fabien Deswarte (Circa Sustainable Chemicals Ltd, United Kingdom)
Safer and high performing bio-based alternatives to NMP
Dr. Ángel Puente (nova-Institut GmbH, Germany)
TEE and LCA of the most promising NMP and Toluene alternatives (combined talk with Dr. Deswarte and Dr. Byrne)
Dr. Fergal Byrne (University of York, United Kingdom)
Safer and high performing bio-based alternatives to toluene
Session 3: Feedback and discussion session
Challenges of solvent substitution and bringing new solvents to market
17:00 Wrap-up
17:30 EFIB 2019 pre-conference reception
All workshop attendees can join the EFIB 2019 welcome reception
Find out more about the presentation topics and speakers
The public deliverable report, ReSolve stakeholder workshop (D6.6) is available here to download.
