Green Tools for Sustainable Chemical Processes: Concepts and Applications

Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-0-443-44317-6
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Green Tools for Sustainable Chemical Processes: Concepts and Applications is intended to be a conceptual work of all the tools used in green and sustainable chemistry, as well as a demonstration of those applications that may already be operational at industrial level, or in the process of being introduced. The book is structured and grouped into sections that cover the concepts and principles of sustainability of chemical processes, sustainable tools to develop more efficient and environmental-friendly chemical processes, advanced tools, and specific applications.

In all cases, basic and advanced concepts for tools, as well as various application examples are addressed in each chapter. As a whole, the book aims to provide a solid foundation of knowledge to students and professionals in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering to understand and know the scope of these new tools, and to be able to incorporate them into their wealth of technological possibilities for real applications.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lozano, Pedro

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Verfahrenstechnik, Chemieingenieurwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, by Pedro Lozano. University of Murcia (Spain)

Section 1. Overall concepts
1. Green and Sustainable Chemical Processes: Concepts, tools and beyond
2. Green solvents and technologies. Concepts, tools and applications
3. Sustainable chemical catalysts
4. Applied biocatalysis for sustainable processes: Concepts and tools
5. Circular Chemistry for a sustainable Future
6. Green metrics: Concept, tools and applications.

Section 2. Sustainable Chemical Tools
7. Design of Biocatalysts
8. Proteins modification for non-aqueous biocatalysis
9. Smart materials for sustainable chemical processes
10. Deep Eutectic Solvents. Concept, tools and applications
11. Biocatalytic processes in ionic liquids and DES
12. Supercritical fluids. Concept, tools and applications
13. Sonochemical processes: Concept, tools and applications
14. Mechanochemical processes: Concept, tools and applications
15. Microwaves in chemical processes: Concept, tools and applications
16. Membrane technology for sustainable processes

Section 3. Design of sustainable chemical processes
17. New trends in reactors engineering.
18. Microfluidic reactors for biotechnological processes
19. Nano-tools for sustainable chemistry
20. Photovoltaic devices for sustainable chemistry: Concepts and applications
21. Bio-renewable materials in sustainable chemical industry
22. Biomass resources for sustainable and functional polymers
23. Waste as resources for chemical industry: Urban mining and supercapacitors.
24. Applications of ionic liquids in polymer technology.
25. Ionic liquids for CO2 capture

Über Autor(innen)

Lozano, Pedro
Pedro Lozano is full time professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Murcia (Spain). He obtained his Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) at the University of Murcia in 1984, and his PhD in Science (Chemistry) at the same University in 1988. Between 1990 and 1991, he spent two years of postdoctoral training at the National Institut of Applied Sciences (INSA)-Toulouse (France). In 1993, he returned to the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Murcia (Spain) as Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, being finally promoted to Full Professor in 2004. Between, he served as Vice-Dean (1996-2014), and Dean (2014-2022) at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Murcia. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Rennes (France, 2002), Bordeaux (France-2013) and Universidade do Rio Grade do Sul-Porto Alegre (Brazil, 2019). His research activity has always been related to Green and Sustainable Chemistry, focusing mainly to applied biocatalysts in ionic liquids and supercritical fluids for the development of green and sustainable chemical processes. He is the author of more than 140 publications (i.e. research papers, reviews, book chapters, etc.), and more than 200 scientific contributions in National and International Congresses. He obtained the 7th IQS-European Award of Enzyme Technology (2003), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2017), Spanish ANQUE National Award (2020). As Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Murcia, Prof. Lozano received the Gold Medal of the Region of Murcia awarded to that Faculty in 2015, and has built of the world's largest Periodic Table on the main facade of that Faculty in 2017, being an IUPAC icon during the International Year of the Periodic Table in 2019.

He has been the promoter of the foundation of the Green Chemistry Division of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry in 2024, being the actual President.