Barriers to Realization

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Barriers to Realization

• Innovative chemistry
• Lack of new chemistries that would
• - improve current processes
• - provide new material properties
• - enable new processes avoiding need for
  conventional
• solvents and water
• - enable deeper understanding through model
  compounds
• - enable the integration of reaction and
  separation processes
• Fundamental science and theory
• Lack of thermo-physical property database
• Lack of an understanding of
• - mass transport
• - reaction kinetics and thermodynamics
• - surfactant behavior in compressible media
• - diffusivities
• - viscosities
• - multi-component phase equilibria

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Barriers to Realization

• Process and equipment engineering
• Need greater engineering creativity!
• Need entirely new types of processes
• Market/economic issues
• High capital costs with current engineering
  approaches
• Lack of pollution prevention investment
  incentives
• Need promotion/recognition
• Institutional issues
• Inadequate communication between
  industry/government/academia
• - knowledge of what to target!
• Communications problems between the disparate
  cultures
• - between scientists and engineers
• - current methods of training extends and
  enhances the problems
• - need to enhance diversity to increase
  innovation
• Need for a centralized and identifiable resource
  base
• Lack of researchers with adequate knowledge base