Organic Chemistry: Current Research
Open Access
ISSN: 2161-0401
+44 1478 350008
ISSN: 2161-0401
+44 1478 350008
John A Glaser
National Risk Management Research Laboratory, USA
Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Organic Chem Curr Res
Remarkable opportunities to develop new sustainable technology processes are attractive due to the need of technology responsive to environmental limitations. It is important to be able to understand where the innovation of these new technologies was encountered and additional fertile areas for future contribution to sustainable technology. The inspection of innovation sources can be daunting. A research effort designed to connect green chemistry/engineering with innovation may assist the general needs for sustainable technology scrutiny. This investigation has developed a metric to permit an assessment of green chemistry components contributing to new chemical process development and innovation at several stages of development. Principles used to design green processes can be employed in the assessment of the new technology involved. The design of sustainable chemical processes and products aimed at the reduction or elimination of hazardous substance (chemical) use has been quite fruitful in the field of green chemistry/engineering. Complementary sets of green chemistry and green engineering principles have provided the directions involved in this paradigm shift. These metrics are used to evaluate the contribution of each feature of innovative process development. Features contributing to innovation are expected to vary across the landscape of discovery to established chemical processes. The importance of sustainability in the design of new molecules at various levels of new chemical development now becomes relevant to discovery, process economics and public acceptability.
Email: glaser.john@epa.gov