U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Industrial Technologies Program – Chemicals Industry of the Future

Success Stories

Cover of the Roadmap for Nanomaterials By Design: From Fundamentals to Function

Roadmap for Nanomaterials By Design: From Fundamentals to Function - The Chemical Industry Vision2020 Technology Partnership (Vision2020) developed the Chemical Industry Roadmap For Nanomaterials By Design: From Fundamentals to Function with support from the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) and the DOE/EERE Chemicals. Vision2020 is leading the chemical industry's effort to implement the roadmap. (PDF 3.73 MB)

The chemical industry has benefited from the technical success of projects cost-shared with industry and ITP. Today, there are emerging technologies with significant market potential. There are also cost-shared technologies that are now commercially available. In addition, ITP Chemicals has helped to create partnerships that conduct collaborative R&D.

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Highlights

  • Pilot Scale Testing Completed and Patent Issued for New Process to Produce Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) (PDF 72 KB)
  • New Microchannel Reactor System Allows Safe and Efficient On-Site Hydrogen Peroxide (H202) Production (October 2007) (PDF 110 KB)

Emerging Chemical Technologies

  • Alloys for Ethylene Production - factsheet (PDF 132 KB), slide (PDF 217 KB)
  • Electrodeionization for Product Purification - factsheet (PDF 262 KB), slide (PDF 259 KB)
  • Recovery of Thermoplastics via Froth Flotation - Discovery Magazine Award finalist - factsheet (PDF 263 KB)
  • Advanced Sorbents for Gas Separations - factsheet (PDF 294 KB), slide (PDF 222 KB)
  • Total Cost Assessment (TCA) Tool - factsheet (PDF 333 KB)
  • Concurrent Distillation - factsheet (PDF 584 KB)
  • Nylon 6 Recycling - Society of Plastic Engineers "Recycler of the Year and Winner of the Design for Humanity Award - factsheet (PDF 250 KB)
  • Low-Frequency Sonic Mixing Technology - factsheet (PDF 397 KB)
  • Plastic Foam and Film Recovery through Thermal Densification - factsheet (PDF 128 KB)
  • Plastic Manufacturing Through Recovered Post-Consumer Goods - factsheet (PDF 103 KB)
  • Distillation Column Flooding Predictor - factsheet (PDF 123 KB), Dzyacky report (PDF 204 KB)
  • Novel Membrane Based Process for Producing Lactate Esters (PDF 290 KB)
  • Production of Succinic Acid From Wood Wastes and Plants (PDF 408 KB)
  • Catalytic Hydrogenation Retrofit Reactor - factsheet (PDF 510 KB), Success Story (PDF 250 KB), slide (PDF 214 KB)
  • Catalytic Membrane for Hydrogen Production and Natural Gas Purification (PDF 101 KB)
  • Membrane for Olefin Recovery from Chemical Waste Streams - AIChE Kirpatrick Award Winner and R&D 100 Award Winner - Success Story (PDF 291 KB)
  • Pressure Swing Adsorption for Product Recovery - factsheet (PDF 487 KB), Success Story (PDF 317 KB), slide (PDF 254 KB)
  • Methanol Recovery From Hydrogen Peroxide Production - factsheet (PDF 100 KB)
  • Paint Wastewater Recovery - factsheet (PDF 273 KB)
  • Powder Paint Coating System - factsheet (PDF 127 KB)
  • Scrap Tire Recycling
  • Solvent Recovery from Effluent Streams
  • Ultrasonic Tank Cleaning - factsheet (PDF 187 KB)
  • Use of Recovered Plastics in Durable Goods Manufacturing - factsheet (PDF 276 KB)
  • Supercritical Fluid Purification of Combi-Chem Libraries - factsheet (PDF 98 KB)
  • Water-Washed Overspray Paint Recovery - factsheet (PDF 129 KB)