Sustainable industrial processes /

In recent years the need for sustainable process design and alternative reaction routes to reduce industry's impact on the environment has gained vital importance. The book begins with a general overview of new trends in designing industrial chemical processes which are environmentally friendly...

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Other Authors: Cavani, Fabrizio
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, ©2009.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Sustainable Industrial Processes; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; 1 From Green to Sustainable Industrial Chemistry; 2 Methods and Tools of Sustainable Industrial Chemistry: Catalysis; 3 Methods and Tools of Sustainable Industrial Chemistry: Process Intensification; 4 Membrane Technologies at the Service of Sustainable Development Through Process Intensification; 5 Accounting for Chemical Sustainability; 6 Synthesis of Propene Oxide: A Successful Example of Sustainable Industrial Chemistry; 7 Synthesis of Adipic Acid: On the Way to More Sustainable Production.
  • 8 Ecofining: New Process for Green Diesel Production from Vegetable Oil9 A New Process for the Production of Biodiesel by Transesterification of Vegetable Oils with Heterogeneous Catalysis; 10 Highly Sour Gas Processing in a More Sustainable World; 11 BioETBE: A New Component for Gasoline; 12 Olefin/Paraffin Alkylation: Evolution of a Green Technology; 13 Towards the Direct Oxidation of Benzene to Phenol; 14 Friedel-Crafts Acylation of Aromatic Ethers Using Zeolites; 15 Green Sustainable Chemistry in the Production of Nicotinates.
  • 16 Introducing Green Metrics Early in Process Development. Comparative Assessment of Alternative Industrial Routes to Elliott's Alcohol, A Key Intermediate in the Production of Resmethrins17 Basell Spherizone Technology; Index.