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Green Chemistry

A Path to Sustainable Development

  • 1 Edición - 31 de marzo de 2025
  • Última edición
  • Editores: Lalit Prasad, Shafat Ahmad Khan, Arvind Kumar Jain, Rajender S Varma
  • Idioma: Inglés

Green Chemistry: A Path to Sustainable Development provides updated information and knowledge on green chemistry, analyzes greener solutions for environmental sustainab… Leer más

Descripción

Green Chemistry: A Path to Sustainable Development provides updated information and knowledge on green chemistry, analyzes greener solutions for environmental sustainability, and includes principles and practices, metrics, green chemical technologies, and real-world applications. Chapters explore interdisciplinary approaches to green chemistry, as well as value added through by-products, conversion of waste to value added products, remodeling from a conventional approach to a greener approach, and the challenges, opportunities, and future scope of green chemistry. Finally, this book discusses green methodologies, processes, and new chemical development.

Puntos claves

  • Evaluates greener approaches and methodologies for sustainability
  • Discusses new chemical processes and methodologies, recycling, and zero waste technologies
  • Explains broad spectrum utilization of greener products and processes in multi-product synthesis industries
  • Provides new insights for environmental sustainability, job opportunities, and economic development

De interès para

Academicians, researchers, scientists, graduate and undergraduate students in the area of sustainability, green chemistry, environmental sustainability, and environmental science

Índice

I. Introduction

1.1 History of Green Chemistry: Remodeling from conventional approach to greener approach

1.2 Selection of solvent and auxiliary

1.3 Eutectic solvents in mining industry

1.4 Green catalyst and reagents

II. Greener approaches and methodologies for sustainability

2.1 Microwave irradiation (MWI) techniques

2.2 Ultrasonication techniques

2.3 Photo-catalysis techniques

2.4 Grinding and milling methods (mechanochemical)

2.5 Supercritical fluid extraction techniques

2.6 Biological and enzymatic approach

III. Interdisciplinary Approach of Green Chemistry

3.1 Nanoscience and nanotechnology

3.2 Sustainable energy resources

3.3 Green structure and buildings

3.4 Petroleum and oil industries

3.5 Green approach for transportation

IV By-product Value addition

4.1 Zero waste technology

4.2 CO2 Sequestration/conversion of CO2 to methanol

4.3 Conversion of waste to value added product

4.4 Green Solution for environmental sustainability

V Green chemistry: challenges, opportunities, and Future Perspective of green chemistry

5.1 Major challenges

5.2 Opportunities in different sectors

5.3 Case studies & Techno-economic analyses

5.4 Future possibility & Life cycle analysis (LCA)

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 1
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 30 de mayo de 2025
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los editores

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Lalit Prasad

Prof. Lalit Prasad (Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India 2013) is presently serving in the Division of Chemistry, School of Basic Sciences, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has more than a decade of teaching and research experience in the area of biofuels, renewable energy, interdisciplinary science, nanotechnology, and green chemical technologies. He has experience as a researcher in various national and international sponsored research projects. He has published more than 30 research papers and book chapters, 10 Indian patents (published) and 03 edited books. He also presented his research in more than 21 national and international conferences. He has supervised a number of master’s theses in the area of biofuels, nanoscience applied chemistry and in interdisciplinary research, supervised two Ph.D. thesis, and is currently supervising five Ph.D. students.

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Professor, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

SA

Shafat Ahmad Khan

Shafat Ahmad Khan (PhD 2012, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, INDIA) has significant teaching and research experience in Organic Chemistry, Green Materials, and plant products (20+ publications, book chapters, h-index 10, 963 citations, 2 patents (filed), 1 edited book). Currently, he is working as Associate Professor in Galgotias University, Greater Noida, U.P., INDIA.
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Associate Professor, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

AJ

Arvind Kumar Jain

Dr. Arvind Kumar Jain is a Professor of Basic and Applied Sciences and Dean of Student Welfare in IILM University, Greater Noida, India, since 2024. He completed his PhD from IIT Roorkee in 2002. He then worked in France as a CNRS post-doctoral fellow in ICMCB CNRS at Bordeaux. His areas of expertise are nanotechnology, analytical chemistry, organic synthetic chemistry. He has delivered many invited talks at national and international levels and has published a large number of research papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings, He has also guided eight Ph.D. students and has published nine patents. He has visited countries like France, Germany, and Holland for his research activities.

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Professor and Dean, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Rajender S Varma

Rajender S. Varma is a well-recognized researcher with extensive expertise in synthetic chemistry, green and sustainable chemistry, environmentally benign methodologies, alternative energy-assisted synthesis, and the development of efficient technologies for environmental remediation. His work spans multidisciplinary research program management and the advancement of innovative approaches for sustainable chemical processes. More recently, his research has focused on the design and assembly of nanomaterials and the application of magnetically recoverable nanocatalysts for sustainable transformations in environmentally friendly media. He has also served on the editorial advisory boards of several leading international journals and maintains active research collaborations across multiple countries.

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Visiting position, RCPTM, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.Senior scientist, U.S. EPA.

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