A case study in green chemistry: the reduction of hazardous solvents in an industrial R&D environment
Piyali Dutta, Andrea McGranaghan, Isabelle Keller, Yogesh Rajaram Patil, Nicholas P. Mulholland, Vikrant Murudi, Horst Prescher, Alex Smith, Nessa Carson, Chris Martin, Paul Alan Cox, Daniel Stierli, Mohamed Boussemghoune, Fabien Barreteau, Jérôme Cassayre, Edouard Godineau
Abstract
A two-year collective effort towards the reduction by 50% of the usage of 7 hazardous solvents (Green Chemistry Principle #5) within a large-scale industrial R&D organization.
Topics & Concepts
Hazardous wasteGreen chemistryReduction (mathematics)ChemistryOrganic chemistryCombinatorial chemistryEnvironmental chemistryWaste managementEngineeringCatalysisReaction mechanismMathematicsGeometryChemistry and Chemical EngineeringProcess Optimization and IntegrationPharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts