By
Mukesh Doble, Department of Biotechnology
I.I.T. Madras, Chennai, India
Anil Kumar, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning
Description
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.
This book 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.
Audience:
Primary Market: environmental engineers, chemical engineers, industrial engineers, scientists, biochemists, facility managers.Secondary
Market: Advanced undergraduate and post-graduate, specialized courses in Chemistry, Chemical technology, Chemical Engineering and Pharmaceutical
sciences Environment technology. Elective in Biocatalysis/Biotransformation
