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Handbook of Green Chemistry

Volume 12: Green Chemical Engineering

Edited by Alexei A. Lapkin

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About the Editors

Series Editor

Photograph depicts Paul T. Anastas.

Paul T. Anastas joined Yale University as Professor and serves as the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering there. From 2004–2006, Paul was the Director of the Green Chemistry Institute in Washington, D.C. Until June 2004 he served as Assistant Director for Environment at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where his responsibilities included a wide range of environmental science issues including furthering international public-private cooperation in areas of Science for Sustainability such as Green Chemistry. In 1991, he established the industry-government-university partnership Green Chemistry Program, which was expanded to include basic research, and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. He has published and edited several books in the field of Green Chemistry and developed the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry.

Volume Editor

Photograph depicts Alexei A. Lapkin.

Alexei A. Lapkin, originally trained in biochemistry at Novosibirsk State University, specialized his master thesis in catalysis and membrane separation. He then worked at Boreskov Institute of Catalysis (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation) in the area of membrane catalysis, before joining the University of Bath in 1997, first as a research assistant. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bath (2000) under the supervision of Professor John W. Thomas and then began his independent academic career.

He joined the University of Cambridge as Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering in 2013. His research focuses on methods of developing cleaner chemical manufacturing processes, in particular in the areas of specialty and pharmaceutical chemistry, but also works on the process intensification concepts and chemical reactor technologies suitable for many application areas, from scaled manufacture of controlled-functionality nanomaterials to inherently safe methods of catalytic oxidation of hydrocarbons. The focus on methods allows his group to branch into diverse application areas, while retaining the core specialism in process development. His group is also contributing to the work on the methods of evaluation of sustainability of chemical processes and products.

List of Contributors

Claire S. Adjiman

Department of Chemical

EngineeringCentre for Process Systems Engineering

Imperial College London

London SW7 2AZ

United Kingdom

Thomas Bieringer

Bayer AG

Engineering & Technology

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee 1

51368 Leverkusen

Germany

Richard A. Bourne

University of Leeds

School of Chemistry

Leeds LS6 9JT

UK

Gert De Bruyn

Royal Haskoning DHV

Laan 1914 nr 35

3818 EX Amersfoort

The Netherlands

Marc-Olivier Coppens

University College London

EPSRC “Frontier Engineering” Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering

Torrington Place

London WC1E 7JE

UK

Leroy Cronin

University of Glasgow

School of Chemistry

University Avenue

Glasgow G12 8QQ

UK

Carmine D'Agostino

The University of Manchester

School of Chemical Engineering

and Analytical Science

The Mill, Sackville Street

Manchester M13 9PL

UK

Vincenza Dragone

University of Glasgow

School of Chemistry

University Avenue

Glasgow G12 8QQ

UK

Nicolas Eghbali

Royal Haskoning DHV

Laan 1914 nr 35

3818 EX Amersfoort

The Netherlands

Sebastian Falß

Invite GmbH

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee 50

51373 Leverkusen

Germany

Amparo Galindo

Department of Chemical

Engineering Centre for Process

Systems Engineering

Imperial College London

London SW7 2AZ

United Kingdom

Miriam Fontalvo Gómez

Universidad del Atlántico

Department of Chemistry

km 7 Antigua via Puerto Colombia

Barranquilla

Colombia

Manuel Holtkamp

Invite GmbH

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee 50

51373 Leverkusen

Germany

Marianne Hoppenbrouwers

University of Hasselt

Faculty of Law

Martelarenlaan 42

3500 Hasselt

Belgium

Christopher S. Horbaczewskyj

University of Leeds

School of Chemistry

Leeds LS6 9JT

UK

Nicolai Kloye

Bayer AG

Engineering & Technology

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee 1

51368 Leverkusen

Germany

Norbert Kockmann

TU Dortmund University

Biochemical and Chemical Engineering

Emil-Figge-Strasse 68

44227 Dortmund

Germany

Alexei A. Lapkin

University of Cambridge

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Philippa Fawcett Drive

Cambridge CB3 0AS

UK

and

Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore Ltd.

1 Create Way, CREATE Tower #05-05

138602 Singapore

Singapore

Ung Lee

RWTH Aachen University

Aachener Verfahrenstechnik

Process Systems Engineering (SVT)

Turmstr. 46

52056 Aachen

Germany

Steven Lemain

Royal Haskoning DHV

Laan 1914 nr 35

3818 EX Amersfoort

The Netherlands

Mick D. Mantle

University of Cambridge

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Philippa Fawcett Drive

West Cambridge Site

Cambridge CB3 0AS

UK

Alexander Mitsos

RWTH Aachen University

Aachener Verfahrenstechnik

Process Systems Engineering (SVT)

Turmstr. 46

52056 Aachen

Germany

Angelina Prokofyeva

Bayer AG

Engineering & Technology

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee 1

51368 Leverkusen

Germany

Evgeny Rebrov

University of Warwick

School of Engineering

UK

and

Tver State Technical University

Laboratory of Biotechnology and ChemistryKomsomolsky Pr. 5, Tver, 170026

Russia

Sebastian Recker

RWTH Aachen University

Aachener Verfahrenstechnik

Process Systems Engineering (SVT)

Turmstr. 46

52056 Aachen

Germany

Boris Johnson Restrepo

Universidad de Cartagena

Environmental Chemistry Research Group

School of Exact and Natural Sciences

Campus of San Pablo

130015 Cartagena

Colombia

Rodolfo J. Romañach

University of Puerto Rico

Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems (C-SOPS)

Mayagüez Campus

Mayagüez 00681-9000

Puerto Rico

Victor Sans

The University of Nottingham

Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Faculty of Engineering

University Park

Nottingham

NG7 2RD

Andrew J. Sederman

University of Cambridge

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Philippa Fawcett Drive

West Cambridge Site

Cambridge CB3 0AS

UK

Eirini Siougkrou

Department of Chemical

Engineering

Centre for Process Systems Engineering

Imperial College London

London SW7 2AZ

United Kingdom

Mirko Skiborowski

Technical University of Dortmund

Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering

Emil-Figge-Str. 70

44227 Dortmund

Germany

Torsten Stelzer

University of Puerto Rico

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Medical Sciences Campus

San Juan 00936

Puerto Rico

and

University of Puerto Rico

Crystallization Design Institute

Molecular Sciences Research Center

San Juan 00926

Puerto Rico

Panagiotis Trogadas

University College London

EPSRC “Frontier Engineering”

Centre for Nature Inspired

Engineering

Torrington Place

London WC1E 7JE

UK

Nicholas J. Turner

University of Manchester

Manchester Institute of Biotechnology

School of Chemistry

131 Princess Street

Manchester M1 7DN

UK

Bart Vander Velpen

Royal HaskoningDHV

Laan 1914 nr 35

3818 EX Amersfoort

The Netherlands

Charlotte E. Willans

University of Leeds

School of Chemistry

Leeds LS6 9JT

UK

John M. Woodley

Technical University of Denmark

Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Søltofts Plads

2800 Lyngby

Denmark

Preface

The volume on Green Chemical Engineering was envisaged as an outlook at the possible future of chemical engineering – where the discipline with long traditions and enormous societal impact and importance is likely to develop. The discipline of chemical engineering is extremely diverse due to the universal applicability of the chemical engineering toolbox. As a result, this volume does not cover all the topics that might be associated with the practice of chemical engineering. Many important traditional areas, such as safety, control, separations, industrial reactor design, are not included in this book. Instead, its focus is on the emerging capabilities and the expanding links to the neighboring basic and applied sciences – biology, chemistry, physics, and applied mathematics. In most areas of chemical engineering, we observe the same trends – increased use of sensors, extensive use of computer-aided tools based on advances in fundamental understanding of physical, biological, and chemical phenomena, much better predictive power of models, and increased capability in integration of knowledge across multiple timescales and length scales. At the same time, some problems of green engineering and sustainability are better solved by other means, for example, by devising new business models or adopting new manufacturing capabilities within chemical engineering, such as additive manufacturing and robotics. The distinctive character of chemical engineering is its systems perspective on the problems. This is most fitting to the current societal challenges of climate change, access to water, sustainable production of food and energy, and closed material cycles. In this volume, our shared attempt is to perform “system expansion” for our discipline and demonstrate the potential advances that are offered at new scientific interfaces, especially in solution of the sustainability challenge.

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 2018 Alexei A. Lapkin