Advancing Sustainability Through Green Chemistry and Engineering

by Lankey, Rebecca L.; Anastas, Paul T.

• ISBN13: 9780841237780
• ISBN10: 0841237786
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-29
• Publisher: American Chemical Society

Summary

Advancing Sustainability through Green Chemistry and Engineering focuses on the role that green chemistry and engineering plays within the field of sustainable development and on the innovations that are bringing the world closer to being a sustainable society. This book explores the frontiers of pollution prevention through technologies that are at the forefront of green chemistry and engineering. Topics covered include environmentally benign synthesis, pharmaceuticals, greener solvents, and bio-based synthesis and processing. As such, this volume illustrates that green chemistry and engineering are having pronounced impacts in a wide range of areas within chemical design, manufacture, and use. Each chapter provides an in-depth treatment of the technical aspects of a specific green chemistry and engineering innovation. It shows how research can be used in practical industrial applications, such as decreasing energy consumption, decreasing the use of toxic and persistent materials, and decreasing the consumption of non-renewable resources. Additionally, this book will serve both as a guide for improving current industrial practices and for designing future industrial systems such as eco-industrial parks.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Sustainability through Green Chemistry and Engineering	1	(12)
Paul T. Anastas
Rebecca L. Lankey
Sustainable Development through Industrial Ecology	13	(18)
Joseph Fiksel
Research and Development Needs for a Fully Sustainable Biocommodity Industry	31	(16)
Charles E. Wyman
Tetraamido Macrocyclic Ligand Catalytic Oxidant Activators in the Pulp and Paper Industry	47	(14)
Terrence J. Collins
Colin P. Horwitz
Alexander D. Ryabov
Leonard D. Vuocolo
Sayam S. Gupta
Anindya Ghosh
Nadine L. Fattaleh
Yelda Hangun
Bradley Steinhoff
Christopher A. Noser
Evan Beach
Duane Prasuhn, Jr.
Trevor Stuthridge
Kathryn G. Wingate
Jenny Hall
L. James Wright
Ian Suckling
Robert W. Allison
Spinosad: A Green Natural Product for Insect Control	61	(14)
Gary D. Thompson
Tom C. Sparks
Toward Benign Synthesis via Catalytic Oxidations Using Dioxygen or Nitrous Oxide	75	(12)
Klaus H. Theopold
Olivia M. Reinaud
Sebastien Blanchard
Somying Leelasubcharoen
Alexandra Hess
Sunita Thyagarajan
An Environmentally Benign Catalytic Polyoxometalate Technology for Transforming Wood Pulp into Paper	87	(14)
Ira A. Weinstock
Elena M. G. Barbuzzi
Dan M. Sonnen
Craig L. Hill
Enhancement of Herbicide and Insecticide Activity with Thermal Polyaspartate	101	(12)
Ramon Georgis
Robert J. Ross
Larry P. Koskan
Using Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization in Environmentally Benign Processes	113	(14)
Scott Gaynor
Jian Qiu
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Generating Benign Alternative Syntheses: The SynGen Program	127	(18)
James B. Hendrickson
Development of a Flexible System for the Simultaneous Conversion of Biomass to Industrial Chemicals and the Production of Industrial Biocatalysts	145	(18)
Johnway Gao
Brian S. Hooker
Rodney S. Skeen
Daniel B. Anderson
Radiation Chemistry: The Basis for an Inherently Green Process Technology	163	(14)
Anthony J. Berejka
Affordable Composites and Plastics from Renewable Resources: Part I: Synthesis of Monomers and Polymers	177	(28)
Richard P. Wool
Shrikant N. Khot
John J. LaScala
Shana P. Bunker
Jue Lu
Wim Thielemans
Erde Can
Shantaram S. Morye
George I. Williams
Affordable Composites and Plastics from Renewable Resources: Part II: Manufacture of Composites	205	(20)
Richard P. Wool
Shrikant N. Khot
John J. LaScala
Shana P. Bunker
Jue Lu
Wim Thielemans
Erde Can
Shantaram S. Morye
George I. Williams
Toward a Green Chemistry and Engineering Solution for the U.S. Energy Industry: Reducing Emissions and Converting Waste Streams into Value-Added Products	225	(20)
M. M. Mercedes Maroto-Valer
John M. Andresen
Yinzhi Zhang
Indexes
Author Index	245	(1)
Subject Index	246