15CHY244 Green Chemistry

and Technology
 15CHY244 Green Chemistry and
Technology
Unit 1
Environment- Pollution- regulations-
Environmental Chemistry- Pollution
prevention Strategies- Challenges to
Sustainability of Chemical Industry, Green
Chemistry Principles, Toxicity, Alternate
Solvents, Energy Minimization, Microwave
and Sonochemical reactions, Renewable
feedstock, Carbon dioxide as a feed stock.
 Unit 2
Green Strategies- Ibuprofen and
terephthalic acid
Phase behaviour and solvent attributes of
super critical carbon dioxide, Ionic liquids,
gas expanded solvents, superheated water,
synthesis of various chemicals from
biomass, polycarbonate synthesis and CO2
fixation, green plastics and green
oxidations.
 Unit 3
Process involving solid catalysts- Zeolites
ion exchange resins, Nafion silica
nanocomposites, Polymer supported
reagents, oxidation using TAML catalyst,
membrane reactors, Green Chemistry in
material science, porous polymers and
Green Nanotechnology
 15CHY244 Green Chemistry and
Technology

General Instructions : Assignments

1. No Group Discussion

2. A4 Sheet, Minimum 1000 words, Maximum 1200

Words
3. No Change in Submission Date

4. References Must: Webpage, Book( Including

Page number), Journal Reference (Full Index)

etc
 15CHY244 Green Chemistry and
Technology
Assignment-1 Submission Dates
•
Explain how Green Chemistry
contributes to Sustainable 17/12/2018
Development?
•
Persistent Organic pollutant- List (Brief
write up)
•
What is a sustainability metric? How
are they useful in Life cycle analysis?

Assignment-2 28/01/2019
Write about “Strategies for CO2
reduction and Fixation”

04/03/2018
Assignment-3
Give a brief write up on Process
Intensification
https://cen.acs.org/article
s/91/i11/Chemistry-Makes-
Comeback-UK-
Universities.html

Silent Spring
 Rachel Carson
27 September 1962
Background and Introduction
•
Industrial Revolution
•
1760 (1820-1840)
• Textiles, water
Power- Steam Power,
Coal, Iron

•
Kyoto Protocol 190
states have signed
•
EU Supposed to cut
emissions by 8 % as
An exaggerated but illustrative view
of twentieth century chemical
The recipe for the twenty-first century will
manufacturing can be written as a
recipe :(1) Start with a petroleum- be very different:
(1) Design the molecule to have minimal
based feedstock.(2) Dissolve it in a
impacton the environment (short
solvent.(3) Add a reagent.(4) React
residence time,biodegradable).(2)
to form an intermediate chemical.(5)
Manufacture from a renewable feedstock
Repeat (2)–(4) several times until
(e.g.carbohydrate).(3) Use a long-life
the finalproduct is obtained; discard
catalyst.(4) Use no solvent or a totally
all waste and spentreagent; recycle
recyclable benign solvent.(5) Use the
solvent where economicallyviable.(6)
smallest possible number of steps in the
Transport the product worldwide,
often for long term storage.(7) synthesis.(6) Manufacture the product as
required and as close as possible to where
Release the product into the
it is required.
ecosystem without proper evaluation
of its long-term effects
Production Costs for Speciality
Chemicals

Cost of waste amounts to about 40 %

 Father of Green Chemistry
Dr. Paul Anastas
Director
Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the
Practice of Chemistry for the Environment
Centre for Green Chemistry and Engineering at
Yale
http://greenchemistry.yale.edu/director-paul-
t-anastas

Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice

 Dr John C. Warner

• Co-founder, President,
and Chief Technology
Officer for the Warner
Babcock Institute for
Green Chemistry
• Co-Founder and
President of Beyond
Benign
• recipient of the 2014 
Perkin Medal