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Green Tools for Sustainable Chemical Processes: Concepts and Applications

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Pedro Lozano
  • Language: English

Green and sustainable Chemistry and Chemical Engineering is one of the scientific, industrial and social development axes of greatest impact in the 21st century. Green Tools for Su… Read more

Description

Green and sustainable Chemistry and Chemical Engineering is one of the scientific, industrial and social development axes of greatest impact in the 21st century. 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 three different sections. The first section is devoted to the concepts and principles of sustainability of chemical processes. The second section is dedicated to sustainable tools with which to develop more efficient and environmental-friendly chemical processes. In all cases, the basic and advanced concepts for one of the tools, as well as various application examples, will be addressed in each chapter. The third section of the book comprises advanced tools and specific applications. 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.

Key features

  • Offers comprehensive picture of the most recent advanced tools in the field of Sustainable Chemical Engineering for chemical processes, from concepts to applications
  • Surpasses traditional texts focused on specific aspects of Green and sustainable chemistry—such as catalysis, biomass, and ionic liquids—and comprehensively covers nearly all the tools currently used in sustainable chemistry, including various metrics
  • Provides important insights into the management strategies for Green and sustainable Chemical Engineering to achieve multidisciplinary learning purposes
  • Addresses key issues in the overall formation in Green and sustainable chemistry tools for Chemists and Chemical engineering students, as the next professionals in chemical industries

Readership

Students of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering degree in last academic year, Master’s students, PhD students, as well as researchers

Table of contents

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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Pedro Lozano

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.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Murcia in Murcia, Murcia, Murcia, Spain