Green Catalysis and Reaction Engineering
An Integrated Approach with Industrial Case Studies

Discover how to perform Life Cycle Analysis and develop next-generation sustainable chemical technologies.

Bala Subramaniam (Author)

9781107006393, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 September 2022

300 pages
25 x 17.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.58 kg

Discover tools to perform Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and develop sustainable chemical technologies in this valuable guide for chemists, engineers and practitioners. Tackling one of the key challenges of modern industrial chemical engineering, this book introduces tools to assess the environmental footprint and economics of key chemical processes that make the ingredients of everyday products such as plastics, synthetic fibers, detergents and fuels. Describing diverse industrial processes in detail, it provides process flow diagrams including raw material sourcing, catalytic reactors, separation units, process equipment and recycle streams. The book clearly explains elements of LCA and how various software tools, available in the public domain and commercially, can be used to perform LCA. Supported by real-world practical examples and case studies provided by industrial and academic chemists and chemical engineers, this is an essential tool for readers involved in implementing LCA, and developing next-generation sustainable chemical technologies.

1. Sustainability challenges of the chemical industry
2. Multiphase catalytic processes and sustainability challenges
3. Ethylene production from diverse feedstocks and energy sources: environmental impact assessment
4. Ethylene epoxidation in gas-expanded liquids with negligible CO2 formation as byproduct: comparative sustainability analysis with conventional process
5. Spray reactor based teraphthalic acid production as a more sustainable alternative to the mid-century process
6. Sustainability assessments of hydrogen peroxide-based and tertiary butyl hydroperoxide-based propylene oxide technologies
7. Separation of propane/propylene mixture by selective propylene hydroformylation in gas-expanded liquids: economic and environmental impact analyses
8. A greener hydroformylation process
9. Solid acid catalyzed olefin/isoparaffin alkylation in supercritical carbon dioxide
10. Epilogue: outlook.

Subject Areas: Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Chemical engineering [TDCB], Chemistry [PN]