4th International Congress on Green Process Engineering (GPE2014) continued
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Martine Poux
This is the second part of the Special Issue dedicated to the 4th International Congress on Green Process Engineering (GPE2014) which was held from 7 to 10 April 2014 in Seville (Spain). It is the continuation of a successful series of international congresses initiated in 2007 by Dr. Ing. Martine Poux and Prof. Patrick Cognet from the National Polytechnic Institute (INP) – University of Toulouse (France). The previous congresses were held in Toulouse (France, 2007), Venice (Italy, 2009) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia, 2011). For the GPE2014, Prof. Pedro Lozano (University of Murcia, Spain) and Prof. Santiago V. Luis (University Jaume I of Castellón, Spain) acted as scientific co-chairs of the conference.
This special issue contains four publications dealing with the production of biodiesel via catalytic hydrodeoxygenation of fatty acids, via transesterification to biodiesel in one-step extraction from microalgae, via the reuse of waste cooking oil and one presenting an overview giving the opportunities and challenges for vegetable oils in the chemical industry in the next 30 years. All these works, as well as the last paper giving a greener route to the epoxyde synthesis, propose new tools for the chemical synthesis of tomorrow which must be more energy efficient, more environmentally friendly and, more sustainable. It is of course accompanied by the evolution of chemical processes but also by the implementation of innovative processing equipement and how they are operated. This is green process engineering!
I hope that the present selection of papers as well as the previous one (published in Green Processing and Synthesis, vol. 3, issue 5, October 2014), which reflect very well the spirit of the series of international congresses on Green Process Engineering, will encourage you to attend the next congress in 2016!
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- In this issue
- Editorial
- Science Woodstock and Nobel Prize: what remains in 50 years?
- GPE 2014
- 4th International Congress on Green Process Engineering (GPE2014) continued
- Beyond biofuels: economic opportunities, recent advances and challenges in property modeling for vegetable oils
- Greener route to 4-vinyl-1-cyclohexane 1,2-epoxide synthesis using batch and continuous reactors
- Intensification of waste cooking oil transformation by transesterification and esterification reactions in oscillatory baffled and microstructured reactors for biodiesel production
- One-step processes for in situ transesterification to biodiesel and lutein extraction from microalgae Phaeodactylum using instant controlled pressure drop (DIC)
- Hydrodeoxygenation of stearic acid for the production of “green” diesel
- Original articles
- Eco-friendly conjugate hydrocyanation of 2-aroyl α,β-unsaturated ketones with potassium hexacyanoferrate(II)
- Facile and green synthesis of Hantzsch derivatives in deep eutectic solvent
- Green synthesis of dual-surface nanocomposite films using Tollen’s method
- Optimized microemulsion production of biodiesel over lipase-catalyzed transesterification of soybean oil by response surface methodology
- Adsorption of organic chemicals on graphene coated biochars and its environmental implications
- Company profile
- iX-factory GmbH: development of a microfluidic chromatography chip
- Conference announcements
- International Workshop on Process Intensification 2015 (IWPI2015): Towards Sustainable Process Technologies in the 21st Century (Canik Basari University, Samsun, Turkey, April 27–30, 2015)
- Conferences 2015–2017
- Book review
- Domino reactions: concepts for efficient organic synthesis
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- In this issue
- Editorial
- Science Woodstock and Nobel Prize: what remains in 50 years?
- GPE 2014
- 4th International Congress on Green Process Engineering (GPE2014) continued
- Beyond biofuels: economic opportunities, recent advances and challenges in property modeling for vegetable oils
- Greener route to 4-vinyl-1-cyclohexane 1,2-epoxide synthesis using batch and continuous reactors
- Intensification of waste cooking oil transformation by transesterification and esterification reactions in oscillatory baffled and microstructured reactors for biodiesel production
- One-step processes for in situ transesterification to biodiesel and lutein extraction from microalgae Phaeodactylum using instant controlled pressure drop (DIC)
- Hydrodeoxygenation of stearic acid for the production of “green” diesel
- Original articles
- Eco-friendly conjugate hydrocyanation of 2-aroyl α,β-unsaturated ketones with potassium hexacyanoferrate(II)
- Facile and green synthesis of Hantzsch derivatives in deep eutectic solvent
- Green synthesis of dual-surface nanocomposite films using Tollen’s method
- Optimized microemulsion production of biodiesel over lipase-catalyzed transesterification of soybean oil by response surface methodology
- Adsorption of organic chemicals on graphene coated biochars and its environmental implications
- Company profile
- iX-factory GmbH: development of a microfluidic chromatography chip
- Conference announcements
- International Workshop on Process Intensification 2015 (IWPI2015): Towards Sustainable Process Technologies in the 21st Century (Canik Basari University, Samsun, Turkey, April 27–30, 2015)
- Conferences 2015–2017
- Book review
- Domino reactions: concepts for efficient organic synthesis
