Green Chemistry & Engineering: A Practical Design Approach bridges the divide between bench chemistry, process design, engineering, environment, health, safety and life cycle considerations. The authors use a systems-oriented and integrated approach to evolve Green Chemistry and Green Engineering as disciplines in the broader context of sustainability. Many of the concepts associated with greenness metrics, greener chemistry and engineering require cognitive skills such as evaluation, synthesis, analysis and application. To meet this need, the book provides examples and practical exercises that help the student or advanced practitioner use understand these concepts as applied to the industrial setting and to use the material in direct and indirect applications. The exercises make the book suitable for self-study or as a textbook.
PART I GREEEN CHEMISTRY AND GREEN ENGINEERING IN THE MOVEMENT TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY.
- Chapter 1. Green Chemistry and Engineering in the Context of Sustainability.
- Chapter 2. Green Chemistry and Green Engineering Principles.
- Chapter 3. Starting with the Basics: Integrating Environment, Health and Safety (EHS).
- Chapter 4: How do we know it’s Green? – A Metrics Primer.
PART II THE BEGINNING: DESIGNING GREENER, SAFER CHEMICAL SYNTHESES.
- Chapter 5: Route and Chemistry Selection.
- Chapter 6. Material Selection: Solvents, Catalysts, Reagents.
- Chapter 7. Reaction Conditions and Green Chemistry.
- Chapter 8. Bioprocesses.
PART III FROM THE FLASK TO THE PLANT: DESIGNING GREENER, SAFER, MORE SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES.
- Chapter 9. Mass and Energy Balances.
- Chapter 10. The Scale-up effect.
- Chapter 11. Reactors and Separations.
- Chapter 12. Process Synthesis.
- Chapter 13. Mass and Energy Integration.
- Chapter 14. Inherent Safety.
- Chapter 15. Process Intensification.
PART IV EXPANDING THE BOUNDARIES.
- Chapter 16. Life Cycle Inventory and Assessment Concepts.
- Chapter 17. Impacts of Materials and Procurement.
- Chapter 18. Impacts of Energy Requirements.
- Chapter 19. Impacts of Waste and Waste Treatment.
- Chapter 20: Total Cost Assessment.
PART V WHAT LIES AHEAD.
- Chapter 21. Emerging Materials.
- Chapter 22. Renewable Resources.
- Chapter 23. Evaluating Technologies.
- Chapter 24. Industrial Ecology.
- Chapter 25. Tying it all together – Is Sustainability Possible?
Index.
From college campuses to corporations, the past decade witnessed a rapidly growing interest in understanding sustainable chemistry and engineering. Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Practical Design Approach integrates the two disciplines into a single study tool for students and a practical guide for working chemists and engineers.
In Green Chemistry and Engineering, the authors—each highly experienced in implementing green chemistry and engineering programs in industrial settings—provide the bottom-line thinking required to not only bring sustainable chemistry and engineering closer together, but to also move business towards more sustainable practices and products. Detailing an integrated, systems-oriented approach that bridges both chemical syntheses and manufacturing processes, this invaluable reference covers:
- Green chemistry and green engineering in the movement towards sustainability.
- Designing greener, safer chemical synthesis.
- Designing greener, safer chemical manufacturing processes.
- Looking beyond current processes to a lifecycle thinking perspective.
- Trends in chemical processing that may lead to more sustainable practices.
- The authors also provide real-world examples and exercises to promote further thought and discussion.
The EPA defines green chemistry as the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances. Green engineering is described as the design, commercialization, and use of products and processes that are feasible and economical while minimizing both the generation of pollution at the source and the risk to human health and the environment. While there is no shortage of books on either discipline, Green Chemistry and Engineering is the first to truly integrate the two.
About the Author
- Concepción Jiménez-González is Director of Operational Sustainability in the Sustainability and Environment Center of Excellence at GlaxoSmithKline. Prior to joining GSK, she was program manager and full-time researcher and professor at the Environmental Quality Center and the Department of Chemical Engineering of ITESM, México. She has a BS in chemical and industrial engineering from the Chihuahua Institute of Technology, Mexico; a MSc in environmental engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Superior Education (ITESM), Monterrey, Mexico; and a PhD in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University.
- David J.C. Constable is Vice President, Energy, Environment, Safety and Health, at Lockheed Martin. Before joining Lockheed, he worked for over seventeen years at GlaxoSmithKline in a variety of positions, including environmental fate and effects testing, product stewardship, green chemistry and technology, life cycle inventory/assessment, and sustainable development. David holds a BS in environmental studies, air and water pollution, from Slippery Rock University, Pennslyvania, and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Connecticut.
Book Details
- Hardcover: 696 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470170875
- ISBN-13: 978-0470170878
- Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.2 x 1.7 inches
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