Industrial Green Chemistry

The editors and authors, with backgrounds in academia and industry, tie together recent and established technologies for the upcoming change to sustainable industrial chemistry. The extensive worldwide activities towards that goal are exemplified with a series of green processes. Some of these processes are already commercially applied (squalene to squalane, hydraulic fluids from vegetable oils, biosourced polycarbonates), others are ready for a large scale implementation (glycerol to acrylic acid, biosourced acrylonitrile and levulinic acid, polyamides from fatty nitriles-esters hydrogenation, butadiene from bioethanol) or are being developed (cyclic carbonates from epoxides, selective pyrolysis of biomass). This book is an indispensable source for the researchers and professionals who work for a greener chemical industry. The chapters have been arranged to guide students through the design of new processes for more sustainable chemistry, using case studies as examples.

• Illustrates attempts to migitate large-scale use of fossil carbon.
• Discusses research, development, scale up forecasting as well as risk analysis of new catalysts and processes.

Dr. Serge Kaliaguine is an esteemed scientist and engineer. He obtained his Doctorate from the Université de Toulouse III (Paul Sabatier) in 1967. Since then, Dr. Kaliaguine has been a Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department at Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada. Professor Serge Kaliaguine has worked in catalysis and surface science research tireless for more than 38 years. He is the author of over 570 papers in refereed journals. His papers have received 17633 citations, having an h-index of 69 and i10-index of 288. He has received many prestigious recognitions including: The Canadian Catalysis Award (1998) from the Catalysis Division of the Chemical Institute of Canada and the Catalysis Lectureship Award (1998) from the Canadian Catalysis Foundation. He is also the recipient of the Century of Achievements Award (1999) from the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering. This special prize was awarded to only 20 Canadian chemical engineers on the occasion of the last conference of the 20th century.
More: International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering, Band 14, Heft 3, Seiten 665–666, ISSN (Online) 1542-6580, ISSN (Print) 2194-5748, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijcre-2016-0063

Dr. Dubois works at Altuglas International/Trinseo. He has published over 120 articles, 6 chapters and over 50 patents. He is also an author of De Gruyters book BIOREFINERIES (ARESTA) GTB.