Chemistry of Waste Minimization [Paperback]

Political pressure has translated into legislation requiring industry to reduce waste. There is an unprecedented opportunity for chemists to develop and apply new methods that result in waste reduction, and this book describes examples of new chemical methods used to reduce waste at source and to treat toxic waste.Political pressure has translated into legislation requiring industry to reduce waste. There is an unprecedented opportunity for chemists to develop and apply new methods that result in waste reduction, and this book describes examples of new chemical methods used to reduce waste at source and to treat toxic waste.Introduction. Waste minimization - the industrial approach. The development and impact of environmental legislation on the chemical industry. The use of solid supports and supported reagents in liquid phase organic reactions. Phase transfer catalysis. Polymer supported synthesis. Industrial synthesis of optically active compounds. CFC alternatives and new catalytic methods of synthesis. Hydrogen peroxide in clean processes. Sonochemistry in waste minimization. Electrochemical aspects of chemical waste minimization. Solvent selection. Polymer recycling. Methods of metal capture from effluent. Chemical destruction using supercritical water. The use of catalysis in the manufacture of fine chemicals and chemical intermediates.This book will have great appeal to those within the chemical industry with an inquisitive mind, especially the process development chemist, but it should also give an insight for the more academically inclined into the chemical industry...There is a wealth of information on a wide variety of chemical reactions that can and might be effective in achieving the goals of waste minimisation and clean technology. It will be up to the chemical technologist and engineer to put these reactions to good (and profitable) use. - Atmospheric Environment; ...a welcome addition to the existing literatl³+