Sustainable Green Chemical Processes and their Allied Applications

Urbanization, industrialization, and unethical agricultural practices have considerably negative effects on the environment, flora, fauna, and the health and safety of humanity. Over the last decade, green chemistry research has focused on discovering and utilizing safer, more environmentally friendly processes to synthesize products like organic compounds, inorganic compounds, medicines, proteins, enzymes, and food supplements. These green processes exist in other interdisciplinary fields of science and technology, like chemistry, physics, biology, and biotechnology, Still the majority of processes in these fields use and generate toxic raw materials, resulting in techniques and byproducts which damage the environment. Green chemistry principles, alternatively, consider preventing waste generation altogether, the atom economy, using less toxic raw materials and solvents, and opting for reducing environmentally damaging byproducts through energy efficiency.
Green chemistry is, therefore, the most important field relating to the sustainable development of resources without harmfully impacting the environment. This book provides in-depth research on the use of green chemistry principles for a number of applications.

Provides alternative, greener solvents for the separation, purification, and synthesis processes Provides alternative, greener catalysis for chemical, pharmaceutical, biochemical industries Offers alternatives for feedstocks that are greener and renewable Provides information on greener processes and development Offers information on environmental remediation as it relates to chemical processes

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Dr. Inamuddin is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is a permanent faculty member (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Applied Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He obtained Master of Science degree in Organic Chemistry from Chaudhary Charan Singh (CCS) University, Meerut, India, in 2002. He received his Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Applied Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He has extensive research experience in multidisciplinary fields of Analytical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Electrochemistry and, more specifically, Renewable Energy and Environment. He has worked on different research projects as project fellow and senior research fellow funded by University Grants Commission (UGC), Government of India, and Council of Scientific and IndustrialResearch (CSIR), Government of India. He has received Fast Track Young Scientist Award from the Department of Science and Technology, India, to work in the area of bending actuators and artificial muscles. He has completed four major research projects sanctioned by University Grant Commission, Department of Science and Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and Council of Science and Technology, India. He has published 152 research articles in international journals of repute and eighteen book chapters in knowledge-based book editions published by renowned international publishers. He has published 67 edited books with Springer (U.K.), Elsevier, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (U.S.A.), CRC Press Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific, Trans Tech Publications Ltd. (Switzerland), IntechOpen Limited (U.K.), and Materials Research Forum LLC (U.S.A). He is a member of various journals' editorial boards. He is also serving as Associate Editor for journals (Environmental Chemistry Letter, Applied Water Science and Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration, Springer-Nature), Frontiers Section Editor (Current Analytical Chemistry, Bentham Science Publishers), Editorial Board Member (Scientific Reports-Nature), Editor (Eurasian Journal of Analytical Chemistry), and Review Editor (Frontiers in Chemistry, Frontiers, U.K.) He is also guest-editing various special thematic special issues to the journals of Elsevier, Bentham Science Publishers, and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. He has attended as well as chaired sessions in various international and national conferences. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow, leading a research team at the Creative Research Initiative Center for Bio-Artificial Muscle, Hanyang University, South Korea, in the field of renewable energy, especially biofuel cells. He has also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center of Research Excellence in Renewable Energy, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia,in the field of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells and computational fluid dynamics of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. He is a life member of the Journal of the Indian Chemical Society. His research interest includes ion exchange materials, a sensor for heavy metal ions, biofuel cells, supercapacitors and bending actuators.

Prof. Abdullah M. Asiri is the Head of the Chemistry Department at King Abdulaziz University since October 2009 and he is the founder and the Director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR) since 2010 till date. He is the Professor of Organic Photochemistry. He graduated from King Abdulaziz University (KAU) with B.Sc. in Chemistry in 1990 and a Ph.D. from University of Wales, College of Cardiff, U.K. in 1995. His research interest covers color chemistry, synthesis of novel photochromic and thermochromic systems, synthesis of novel coloring matters and dyeing of textiles, materials chemistry, nanochemistry andna

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Preface.- New approaches for renewable energy using metal electrocatalysts for lithium-O2 and zinc-air batteries.- Biodiesel production for the sustainable development of chemical industry.- Cellulose based green and sustainable energy.- Design of dithienopyrrole-based organic dyes for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells: Strategies and outcome.- Sonochemical production of hydrogen: A novel approach.- Impact of alcohol and its blends on engine performance.- Photovoltaic performance of bipyridine and dipyridophenazine-based ruthenium complexes in application of dye-sensitized solar cell sensitizers.- Compressed fluids for food by-products biorefinery.- Green and sustainable biomass processing for fuels and chemicals.- Enriching of carotenes by supercritical desorption of buriti oil ( Mauritia flexuosa Mart.) from alumina adsorbent.- Utilization of bio waste in green chemistry.- The role of heterogeneous catalysts in cellulose conversion to platform chemicals and biofuels.- Potential of neem oil as source of biodiesel.- Sustainable photocatalyst for energy and environment application.- Implementation guidelines for modelling gasification processes in computational fluid dynamics: A tutorial overview approach.- Sustainable cellulose based absorbents for heavy metal remediation.- Recent trend in photo-catalytic water of azo dyes.- Hospital effluents treatment.- Solar photocatalytic treatment of tannery effluent.- Modification of natural fibers by graft copolymerization and their environmental applications.- Dye degradation for environmental remediation.- Exploring natural coagulant application in the treatment of water for safe drinking.- Sustainable technologies for the wastewater treatment generated by leather industry sector: Regulation and economic aspects.- Physical and biological techniques to remediate carcinogenic Cr(VI) from industrial effluents.- Separation of industrial effluents.- Application of polymers in purification of industrial wastewater.-Role of disinfectants in green chemistry.- Sonochemistry in green processes: modeling, experiments and technology.- Biosynthesis of silymarin through plant in-vitro cultures.- Chemistry for new frontiers in supramolecular theranostics.- Cellulose nanocrystal aerogels: Synthesis, functional properties, and applications.- Graphene oxi…