Green chemistry and processes /
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...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Amsterdam : Burlington, Mass. :
Elsevier ; Academic Press,
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Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Summary: | 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 cre. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 326 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780080524771 008052477X 9780123725325 0123725321 9780080922218 008092221X |