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Green Engineering: Integration of Green Chemistry, Pollution Prevention, and Risk-Based Considerations

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Literature sources on green chemistry and green engineering are numerous. The objective of this chapter is to familiarize readers with some of the green engineering and chemistry concepts, approaches, and tools. In order to do this, the chapter is organized into five sections as follows.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Adapted from Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice [3].

  2. 2.

    The preliminary principles forged at this multidisciplinary conference are intended for engineers to use as a guidance in the design or redesign of products and processes within the constraints dictated by business, government, and society such as cost, safety, performance, and environmental impact.

Abbreviations

MEN:

Mass exchange network

MSA:

Mass separation agent

P2:

Pollution prevention

PM5 :

Particulate matter <5μm in diameter

POTW:

Publicly owned (wastewater) treatment works

RCRA:

Resource conservation and recovery act

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P. A. Ramachandran would like to thank National Science Foundation for partial support of research in the general area of environmentally benign processing through the grant NSF-ERC center grant EEC-0310689.

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Shonnard, D. et al. (2012). Green Engineering: Integration of Green Chemistry, Pollution Prevention, and Risk-Based Considerations. In: Kent, J. (eds) Handbook of Industrial Chemistry and Biotechnology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4259-2_5

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