2011 Chrismas Programme

 

 

Monday 19th December

09:00 - 09:55

Registration with Tea/coffee & Danish pastry

09:55 – 10:00

Welcome by Andrew Griffiths (Chartered Institute for Environmental Health) and
Professor Derek Fray (Chairperson of the MSDG)

10:00 – 10:40

Invited Lecture

 

(Chairperson : Professor Derek Fray)

 

Professor Koen Binnemans
Department of Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Liquid Metal Salts

10:40 – 12:30

Technical Session 1

 

(Chairperson : Dr Trevor Griffiths)

10:40 – 11:00

Tim Paget
AWE, Aldermaston, Reading, RG4 4PR, UK.
Chemical and Electrochemical Processing of Plutonium in Chloride Melts

11:00 – 11:30

Anders Riisager
Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark
Ionic liquid Catalysis for Upgrading Biomass to Value-added Chemicals

11:30 – 12:00

Andrew Dolan1, Tim Gorman2, Agnieszka Brandt1, Tom Welton1
1 Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London, UK.
2 University of York, York, UK
High energy site exchange in the 1H-NMR spectrum of pyrrolidinium based ILs

12:00 – 12:30

Olga Babushkina
CEST, Austria
Spectroscopy and Electrochemistry of Ionic Liquids with K2NbF7 and K2TaF7 Salts

 

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

 

13:30 – 14:00

MSDG AGM

14:00 – 15:30

Technical Session 2

 

(Chairperson : Professor Andrew Abbott)

14:00 – 14:30

Geir Martin Haarberg, Reidar Tunold and Espen Sandnes
Institutt for Materialteknologi, NTNU, Sem Salands vei 12, Trondheim, Norway, NO-7491
Anode Processes on Carbon in Molten Chloride Electrolytes with Dissolved Oxides

14:30 – 15:00

Marcelle Gaune-Escard
Ecole-Polytechnique, CNRS UMR 6595. Marseille, France
Molten Salts and Nuclear Energy

15:00 – 15:20

Trevor Griffiths
Redston Trevor Consulting Ltd., Leeds, LS17 8RF, UK.
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Molten Fluoride Reactor:
The foundation of modern molten salt chemistry?

15:20 – 15:30

Laurence O'Hagan
The Weinberg Foundation, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA, UK
The Weinberg Foundation

15:30 – 16:00

Tea, coffee & biscuits

16:00 – 17:30

Technical Session 3

 

(Chairperson : Professor Geir Martin Haarberg)

16:00 – 16:30

Rasmus Fehrmann
Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark
Supported Ionic Liquid Phase (SILP) Catalysts and Gas Absorbers

16:30 – 17:00

Geoffrey Taylor
AWE, Aldermaster, Reading, RG4 4PR, UK
Evaluation of Carbonate Oxidation for the Treatment of Waste Pyrochemical Salts

17:00 – 17:30

Linpo Yu, George Z. Chen
Dept. of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
The Anodic Processes of Chloride and Bromide Ions in Ionic Liquids

17:30 – 19:00

Cheese/biscuits plus Tortilla chips/dips & wine

19:00

Close of meeting

 

 

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