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Comprehensive Guide to Green Chemistry

Principles, Methods, and Real-World Applications

  • 1st Edition - December 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Mohd Amin Mir, Bimal Krishna Banik
  • Language: English

Comprehensive Guide to Green Chemistry: Principles, Methods, and Real-World Applications offers a thorough guide to how green chemistry can drive environmental sustai… Read more

Description

Comprehensive Guide to Green Chemistry: Principles, Methods, and Real-World Applications offers a thorough guide to how green chemistry can drive environmental sustainability and address pressing global challenges. Integrating core principles with innovative technologies, it explores renewable energy, eco-friendly practices, and solutions like biofuels, green hydrogen, and solar-driven chemical processes. What sets this book apart is its strong focus on real-world applications. It shows how green chemistry affects everyday life, from agriculture and food packaging to community initiatives. Case studies, emerging trends, and practical examples showcase successful innovations, making sustainability tangible and actionable. Ideal for graduate students, researchers, industry professionals, and policymakers, this volume advances both understanding and practice in green chemistry. It provides guidance for developing environmentally responsible technologies, improving efficiency, and shaping sustainability-oriented policies, illustrating how sustainable practices can be integrated across science, industry, and communities.

Key features

  • Applies core principles of green chemistry to practical case studies, enabling readers to understand scientific foundations and implement sustainability tools across academic, industry, and community settings
  • Analyzes interdisciplinary connections across renewable energy, sustainable materials, food packaging, waste valorization, and consumer behavior and evaluates how green chemistry principles inform advances in agriculture, energy, food science, and environmental policy
  • Features future-oriented insights and success stories, inspiring readers with real-world innovations and offering a forward-looking perspective on emerging trends, technological advances, and policy developments

Readership

Graduate students, academics, and researchers in green chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, and environmental science who are involved in sustainable and environmentally friendly practices

Table of contents

Part I: Background and Principles

1. Introduction: Green and Sustainable Chemistry

2. Fundamentals of Sustainable Chemical Practices

3. Principles of Renewable Energy and Resources

Part II: Methods and Techniques

4. Biofuels and Bioenergy From Renewable Feedstocks

5. Green Hydrogen Production

6. Solar Powered Chemical Processes

7. Energy Savings and Efficiency in Chemical Production

8. Waste Reduction in Industrial Processes

9. Green Metrics and Sustainability Assessment

Part III: Applications

10. Sustainable Agrochemicals and Fertilizers

11. Green Chemistry in Food Packaging

12. Waste Valorization in the Food Sector

13. Everyday Chemistry

14. Locally Grown Sustainable Practices

Part IV: Case Studies and Future Directions

15. Successful Green Innovation Stories for Inspiration

16. Emerging Trends and Future Challenges

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Mohd Amin Mir

Dr. Mohd Amin Mir is an Assistant Research Professor at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun, India (2018–2020). With more than 125 research publications in international and national journals, his work spans diverse areas of chemistry and biomedical sciences. His active research focuses on the isolation and characterization of various biosignatures for the development of anti-diabetic, anti-cancer, and anti-leukoderma medicines. Dr. Mir has received numerous accolades, including the Young Researcher Award in Pharmaceutical Chemistry under the Allied Health Sciences discipline at the Venus International Healthcare Awards (VIHA) 2018; the InSc Young Achiever Award from the Institute of Scholars, Bengaluru, India; and the Outstanding Scientist Award in 2020 in Engineering, Science and Medicine from VDGOOD. He also serves on editorial boards of more than 30 journals and reviews for 10 others.

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Research Professor, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Bimal Krishna Banik

Dr. Bimal Krishna Banik is a Full Professor at Prince Mohammed Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia. Previously, he served as a tenured full professor and the first president’s Endowed Professor of Science & Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin, and was Vice President of Research and Education Development at Community Health Systems of South Texas, United States. Dr. Banik has conducted extensive research in synthetic chemistry and chemical biology, focusing on cancer, antibiotics, catalysis, and natural products. He has chaired more than 20 symposiums at the American Chemical Society (ACS) national meetings and has published more than 735 articles and approximately 530 abstracts, with more than 11,500 citations. His numerous awards include the Indian Chemical Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Medal of Honor from the United Kingdom Parliament, the University of Texas System Board of Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, and the ACS Member Service Award.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia