Additive Blooming: Origins, Detection, and Control in Polymer Processing

The Glasgow Climate Pact reaffirmed the primary goal of the Paris Agreement: limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius versus pre-industrial levels. As policymakers attempt to accelerate the energy transition to meet this goal, the oil and gas sector is coming under increasing pressure.

Recent regulations such as the 2016 amended Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and regulatory agencies such as the European Union (EU) have begun to encourage alternatives to animal testing to assess chemical hazards. These efforts aim to replace animal tests with reliable and validated non-animal methods. This webinar series will highlight the regulatory landscape of toxicity testing requirements and acceptance of animal testing alternatives for industrial chemicals with a specific focus on the 2016 update to TSCA. It will showcase novel and emerging non-animal hazard evaluation strategies for compliance under such regulations such as read-across, high throughput assays, and quantitative structural-activity relationships.

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has several hundred codes and standards in print designed to increase fire protection and life safety across a wide range of occupancy classifications. NFPA has numerous codes devoted to the specific hazards posed by chemical process plants. This presentation will introduce a variety of relevant codes, how they are applicable, and their relevance to improving chemical process safety. It will also discuss the main focuses of these codes and several ways in which process areas can easily become safer.

Marvin JS, produced by ChemAxon, is a state-of-the-art chemical editor that combines the chemical knowledge of MarvinSketch with the JavaScript-based browser technology. Based on the feedback from our users we have updated MarvinJS to enable easier and faster generation of structure queries.