Advancing Sustainability through Green Chemistry and Engineering

Edited by Rebecca L. Lankey and Paul T. Anastas

Advancing Sustainability through Green Chemistry and Engineering

Edited by Rebecca L. Lankey and Paul T. Anastas

Description

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.

Advancing Sustainability through Green Chemistry and Engineering

Edited by Rebecca L. Lankey and Paul T. Anastas

American Chemical Society

ACS Symposium Series

Preface
1. Sustainability through Green Chemistry and Engineering, Paul T. Anastas and Rebecca L. Lankey
2. Sustainable Development through Industrial Ecology, Joseph Fiksel
3. Research and Development Needs for a Fully Sustainable Biocommodity Industry, Charles E. Wyman
4. Tetraamido Macrocyclic Ligand Catalytic Oxidant Activators in the Pulp and Paper Industry, Terrence J. Collins et al.
5. Spinosad: a Green Natural Product for Insect Control, Gary D. Thompson and Tom C. Sparks
6. Toward Benign Synthesis via Catalytic Oxidations Using Dioxygen or Nitrous Oxide, Klaus H. Theopold et al.
7. An Environmentally Benign Catalytic Polyoxometalate Technology for Transforming Wood Pulp into Paper, Ira A. Weinstock et al.
8. Enhancement of Herbicide and Insecticide Activity with Thermal Polyaspartate, Ramon Georgis, Robert J. Ross, and Larry P. Koskan
9. Using Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization in Environmentally Benign Processes, Scott Gaynor, Jian Qiu, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
10. Generating Benign Alternative Syntheses: The SynGen Program, James B. Hendrickson
11. Development of a Flexible System for the Simultaneous Conversion of Biomass to Industrial Chemicals and the Production of Industrial Biocatalysts, Johnway Gao et al.
12. Radiation Chemistry: the Basis for an Inherently Green Process Technology, Anthony J. Berejka
13. Affordable Composites and Plastics from Renewable Resources: Part I: Synthesis of Monomers and Polymers, Richard P. Wool et al.
14. Affordable Composites and Plastics from Renewable Resources: Part II: Manufacture of Composites, Richard P. Wool
15. Toward a Green Chemistry and Engineering Solution for the U.S. Energy Industry: Reducing Emissions and Converting Waste Streams into Value-Added Products, M. M. Mercedes Maroto-Valer, John M. Andrésen, and Yinzhi Zhang
Indexes
Author Index
Subject Index