Green chemistry and processes / Mukesh Doble and Anil Kumar Kruthiventi.

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Chemical processes provide a diverse array of valuable products and materials used in applications ranging from health care to transportation and food processing. Yet these same chemical processes that provide products and materials essential to modern economies, also generate substantial quantities of wastes and emissions. Green Chemistry is the utilization of a set of principles that reduces or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances in design. Due to extravagant costs needed to managing these wastes, tens of billions of dollars a year, there is a need to propose a way to create less waste. Emission and treatment standards continue to become more stringent, which causes these costs to continue to escalate.

Green Chemistry and Engineering describes both the science (theory) and engineering (application) principles of Green Chemistry that lead to the generation of less waste. It explores the use of milder manufacturing conditions resulting from the use of smarter organic synthetic techniques and the maintenance of atom efficiency that can temper the effects of chemical processes. By implementing these techniques means less waste, which will save industry millions of dollars over time.

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• Preface (p. xi)
• About the Authors... (p. xv)
• 1 Introduction (p. 1)
• Definition of Green Chemistry (p. 3)
• Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry (p. 3)
• Initiatives Taken Up by Countries Around the World (p. 6)
• The Green Chemistry Expert System (p. 7)
• How Green Chemistry Is Being Addressed (p. 9)
• Cross Interactions from Green Chemistry (p. 9)
• The Patent Scene (p. 11)
• The Measure of Greenness (p. 11)
• Safety and Risk Indices (p. 15)
• Mass and Energy Indices (p. 16)
• The Hierarchical Approach (p. 17)
• The Sustainable Process Index (p. 21)
• Conclusions (p. 22)
• References (p. 23)
• 2 Newer Synthetic Methods (p. 27)
• Introduction (p. 27)
• Use of Microwaves for Synthesis (p. 32)
• Electro-Organic Methods (p. 33)
• Elegant and Cost-Effective Synthetic Design (p. 33)
• Conclusions (p. 37)
• References (p. 39)
• Appendix 2.1 (p. 40)
• References (p. 42)
• Appendix 2.2 (p. 44)
• References (p. 50)
• 3 Catalysis and Green Chemistry (p. 53)
• Catalysis and Green Chemistry (p. 54)
• Conclusions (p. 66)
• References (p. 66)
• 4 Biocatalysis: Green Chemistry (p. 69)
• Introduction (p. 69)
• Advantages Within Industrial Applications (p. 70)
• Challenges to Make Biocatalysis Industrially Viable (p. 71)
• Process Design (p. 82)
• Future Trends (p. 83)
• References (p. 89)
• 5 Alternate Solvents (p. 93)
• Safer Solvents (p. 94)
• Green Solvents (p. 97)
• Water as Solvent (p. 98)
• Solvent-Free Conditions (p. 99)
• Ionic Liquids (p. 99)
• Conclusions (p. 103)
• References (p. 104)
• 6 Process and Operations (p. 105)
• Industry Perception (p. 107)
• Reactions (p. 112)
• Reactor Designs (p. 113)
• Micro Mixers (p. 117)
• Unit Operations (p. 121)
• Reactions with Separation Operations (p. 135)
• Other New Reactor Designs (p. 161)
• Process Integration (p. 162)
• Conclusions (p. 167)
• References (p. 168)
• 7 Alternate Energy Sources (p. 171)
• Greenhouse Gases (p. 172)
• Renewable Energy (p. 187)
• Future Sources of Renewable Energy (p. 190)
• Conclusions (p. 190)
• References (p. 191)
• 8 Inherent Safety (p. 193)
• Conflicts Due to Inherently Safe Designs (p. 228)
• Conclusions (p. 242)
• References (p. 243)
• 9 Industrial Examples (p. 245)
• The Pharmaceutical Industries and Green Chemistry (p. 252)
• The Polymer Industry (p. 264)
• Pesticides, Antifoulants, and Herbicides (p. 270)
• Solvents and Green Chemistry (p. 274)
• The Food and Flavor Industry (p. 277)
• The Maleic Anhydride Manufacturing Process (p. 280)
• Chelants (p. 281)
• The Surfactant Industry (p. 283)
• Industries in Need of Support to Go Green (p. 284)
• The Semiconductor Manufacture Industry (p. 284)
• The Dye Industry (p. 285)
• The Textile Industry (p. 286)
• The Tannery Industry (p. 288)
• The Sugar and Distillery Industries (p. 288)
• The Paper and Pulp Industry (p. 289)
• The Pharmaceutical Industry (p. 291)
• Conclusions (p. 293)
• References (p. 294)
• 10 Conclusions and Future Trends (p. 297)
• Energy (p. 297)
• Process Intensification (p. 299)
• Biotechnology: The Solution to All Problems (p. 302)
• Future Predictions (p. 308)
• Conclusions (p. 310)
• References (p. 311)
• Index (p. 313)