Peter Rudolf Seidl – Professor, Graduate Program on Technology of Chemical and Biochemical Processes, EQ/UFRJ (TPQB/EQ/UFRJ), and responsible for the establishment of the Brazilian Green Chemical School (EBQV). Thesis advisor and project coordinator in physical organic chemistry applied to chemical process areas such as petroleum, pharmaceuticals, mineral technology, etc., publishing widely in these areas and holding an international patent on the use of cashew wastes as a raw material. Former President of the Brazilian Chemical Association (ABQ) and active in the organization of meetings and workshops, such as the 1st International Conference on Chemistry of the Amazon (held shortly after Rio 92) and, more recently, the 1st Workshop on Asphaltenes Characterization and Properties held in 2009 and Biorefineries 2010 Recent Advances and New Challenges, held last November.
58 Ebooks by James H Clark
Chao-Jun Li: From C-H to C-C Bonds
The C-C bond is a basic building block in chemistry and its formation is often the first step towards building more complex molecules. The direct generation of C-C bonds from C-H by cross-dehydrogena …
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€194.99
Carol Lin & Rafael Luque: Renewable Resources for Biorefineries
With the increasing awareness and concern about the dependency on fossil resources and the depletion of crude oil reserves, experts from industrial biotechnology, renewable resources, green chemistry …
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€159.99
Francesca Cardona & Camilla Parmeggiani: Transition Metal Catalysis in Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation
The oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols to the corresponding carbonyl compounds is of fundamental importance in organic synthesis, due to the wide use of these products as precursors and inte …
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€204.99
Zengshe Liu & George Kraus: Green Materials from Plant Oils
Finding alternatives to fossil feedstocks is increasing in importance with the challenges of global warming, increasing oil prices and depleting fossil fuel reserves that we currently face. Today, pl …
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€194.99
Brindaban Ranu & Achim Stolle: Ball Milling Towards Green Synthesis
Ball milling has emerged as a powerful tool over the past few years for effecting chemical reactions by mechanical energy. Allowing a variety of reactions to occur at ambient temperatures and in …
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€204.99
Dmitry Murzin & Olga Simakova: Biomass Sugars for Non-Fuel Applications
Biomass-derived sugars provide a rich, renewable feedstock for a diverse range of chemicals, making them a promising and feasible source for the sustainable manufacture of a variety of valuable …
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€214.99
Michael North: Sustainable Catalysis
Catalysis is a fundamentally sustainable process which can be used to produce a wide range of chemicals and their intermediates. Focussing on those catalytic processes which offer the most …
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€239.99
Michael North: Sustainable Catalysis
Catalysis is a fundamentally sustainable process which can be used to produce a wide range of chemicals and their intermediates. Focussing on those catalytic processes which offer the most …
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€239.99
Visakh P M & Ipsita Roy: Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Based Blends, Composites and Nanocomposites
There is much interest in biodegradable polymers for different uses and polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) have potential applications in a broad range of areas from food packaging to biomedical applicatio …
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€204.99
Seth W Snyder: Commercializing Biobased Products
Biobased products offer substantial economic and environmental benefits, but understanding how to commercialize this requires a comprehensive look at the process, including feedstocks, technologies, …
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€214.99
Rafal Bogel-Lukasik: Ionic Liquids in the Biorefinery Concept
The implementation of ionic liquids technologies in future biorefineries is challenging. Different approaches can be applied along the entire chain of biomass valorisation to achieve a specific targe …
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€229.99
Ramazan Asmatulu & Nurxat Nuraje: Green Photo-active Nanomaterials
Providing up-to-date coverage of green nanomaterials and systems, this book provides comprehensive information on nanostructured materials, including their applications in energy and environmental …
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€239.99
Tanvi Vats & Anuradha Mishra: Microwave-Assisted Polymerization
Polymer science faces the challenge of meeting growing market demand for polymers whilst achieving sustainability through environmentally friendly processes. Microwave heating has emerged as a …
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€164.99
Georgios Stefanidis & Andrzej Stankiewicz: Alternative Energy Sources for Green Chemistry
The use of alternative energy forms and transfer mechanisms is one of the key approaches of process intensification. In recent years, significant amounts of research have been carried out in …
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€209.99
Rakesh Kumar Sharma & Rakeshwar Bandichhor: Hazardous Reagent Substitution
In recent years, a significant amount of progress has been made using green chemistry in the synthesis of synthetically useful compounds and molecules by replacing hazardous chemicals with greener …
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€199.99
Maria Alice Coelho & Bernardo D Ribeiro: White Biotechnology for Sustainable Chemistry
White biotechnology is the use of enzymes and microorganisms in industrial production through applied biocatalysis. This allows for milder reaction conditions (p H and temperature) and the use of mor …
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€199.99
Robin J White: Porous Carbon Materials from Sustainable Precursors
Porous carbon materials are at the heart of many applications, including renewable energy storage and generation, due to their superior physical properties and availability. The …
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€239.99
Y.-H. Zhang & Jingyan Zhang: Chemical Biotechnology and Bioengineering
In biotechnology and bioengineering, small molecules can be used to increase the efficiency reduce the cost and damage to the environment of certain bioprocesses. This book introduces readers to the …
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€159.99
Vânia Zuin & Liliana Mammino: Worldwide Trends in Green Chemistry Education
Educating the next generation of chemists about green chemistry issues, such as waste minimisation and clean synthesis, is vital for environmental sustainability. This book enables green issues to be …
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€52.99
Louise Summerton & Helen F Sneddon: Green and Sustainable Medicinal Chemistry
Pharmaceutical manufacturing was one of the first industries to recognize the importance of green chemistry, with pioneering work including green chemistry metrics and alternative solvents and …
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€199.99
Francesca Kerton & Ray Marriott: Alternative Solvents for Green Chemistry
Everyone is becoming more environmentally conscious and therefore, chemical processes are being developed with their environmental burden in mind. This also means that more traditional chemical metho …
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€184.99
Mauricio A Rostagno & Juliana M Prado: Natural Product Extraction
Natural products are sought after by the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, and research continues into their potential for new applications. Extraction of natural products in an economic …
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€214.99
Michael North: Sustainable Catalysis
Catalysis is a fundamentally sustainable process which can be used to produce a wide range of chemicals and their intermediates. Focussing on those catalytic processes which offer the most …
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English
DRM
€239.99
Michael North: Sustainable Catalysis
Catalysis is a fundamentally sustainable process which can be used to produce a wide range of chemicals and their intermediates. Focussing on those catalytic processes which offer the most …
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English
DRM
€239.99
Laly A Pothan & Rubie Mavelil-Sam: Biobased Aerogels
Aerogels have been in use for over 80 years and have been utilised in a wide variety of applications, in particular, there has been growing use of insulating nanoporous materials in the aerospace ind …
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€199.99
Robert C Brown & Kaige Wang: Fast Pyrolysis of Biomass
Fast pyrolysis and related catalytic pyrolysis are of increasing interest as pathways to advanced biofuels that closely mimic traditional petroleum products. Research has moved from empirical investi …
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€199.99
Andrzej Górak & Andrzej Stankiewicz: Intensification of Biobased Processes
In recent years bioprocessing has increased in popularity and importance, however, bioprocessing still poses various important techno-economic and environmental challenges, such as product yields, ex …
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€239.99
Rafał M. Łukasik: High Pressure Technologies in Biomass Conversion
In recent years carbon dioxide has played an increasingly important role in biomass processing. This book presents the state-of-the-art of a range of diverse approaches for the use of carbon dioxide …
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€164.99
James H Clark & Andrew Hunt: Sustainable Solvents
Solvents are ubiquitous throughout the chemical industry and are found in many consumer products. As a result, interest in solvents and their environmental impact has been steadily increasing. …
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€239.99
Robert C Brown & Kaige Wang: Fast Pyrolysis of Biomass
Fast pyrolysis and related catalytic pyrolysis are of increasing interest as pathways to advanced biofuels that closely mimic traditional petroleum products. Research has moved from empirical investi …
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€199.99
Jin Kuk Kim & Prosenjit Saha: Rubber Recycling
Rubber is used in a vast number of products, from tyres on vehicles to disposable surgical gloves. Increasingly both manufacturers and legislators are realising that recycling is essential for enviro …
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€199.99
Francesco Frusteri & Donato Aranda: Sustainable Catalysis for Biorefineries
Biorefineries are becoming increasingly important in providing sustainable routes for chemical industry processes. The establishment of bio-economic models, based on biorefineries for the creati …
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€199.99
Rakesh Kumar Sharma & Rakeshwar Bandichhor: Hazardous Reagent Substitution
In recent years, a significant amount of progress has been made using green chemistry in the synthesis of synthetically useful compounds and molecules by replacing hazardous chemicals with greener …
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€199.99
Mariette M Pereira & Mário J F Calvete: Sustainable Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals
There is a growing interest in the development of sustainable processes for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and this book bridges the divide between industrial examples and the fundamental …
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€209.99
Andrzej Górak & Andrzej Stankiewicz: Intensification of Biobased Processes
In recent years bioprocessing has increased in popularity and importance, however, bioprocessing still poses various important techno-economic and environmental challenges, such as product yields, ex …
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English
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€239.99
Francesco Frusteri & Donato Aranda: Sustainable Catalysis for Biorefineries
Biorefineries are becoming increasingly important in providing sustainable routes for chemical industry processes. The establishment of bio-economic models, based on biorefineries for the creati …
EPUB
English
DRM
€199.99
Laly A Pothan & Rubie Mavelil-Sam: Biobased Aerogels
Aerogels have been in use for over 80 years and have been utilised in a wide variety of applications, in particular, there has been growing use of insulating nanoporous materials in the aerospace ind …
EPUB
English
DRM
€199.99
Jin Kuk Kim & Prosenjit Saha: Rubber Recycling
Rubber is used in a vast number of products, from tyres on vehicles to disposable surgical gloves. Increasingly both manufacturers and legislators are realising that recycling is essential for enviro …
EPUB
English
DRM
€199.99
Rainer Höfer & Avtar Singh Matharu: Green Chemistry for Surface Coatings, Inks and Adhesives
Many modern surface coatings and adhesives are derived from fossil feedstocks. With fossil fuels becoming more polluting and expensive to extract as supplies dwindle, industry is turning increasingly …
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€239.99
Roberto Ballini: Green Synthetic Processes and Procedures
The principles of Green Chemistry aim to improve the sustainability of chemical processes and reduce the generation of hazardous substances. There has been great growth in the field over the past few …
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€209.99
C W Jones: Applications of Hydrogen Peroxide and Derivatives
Simple, but beautifully versatile. Perhaps not a description many would choose for hydrogen peroxide, but an accurate one none the less, and this unique book explains the reasons behind the …
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€119.99
R M Dell & D A J Rand: Clean Energy
Clean Energy presents a broad survey of the energy problems facing society over the coming decades and the prospects for their solution. The book emphasizes the importance of developing a strategy …
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€119.99
Chris N Rhodes & James H Clark: Clean Synthesis Using Porous Inorganic Solid Catalysts and Supported Reagents
Waste minimisation has a number of aims which include enhancing the intrinsic selectivity of any given process, providing a means of recovering reagents in a form which allows easy regeneration and …
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€87.99
Jose Aguado & David P Serrano: Feedstock Recycling of Plastic Wastes
The use of plastic materials has seen a massive increase in recent years, and generation of plastic wastes has grown proportionately. Recycling of these wastes to reduce landfill disposal is …
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€99.99
Diane Stirling: The Sulfur Problem
Sulfur compounds contaminate many industrially important feedstocks and, on release to the atmosphere as sulfur oxides, can cause widespread damage to the ecosystem. The main objectives of The Sulfur …
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€92.99
Rainer Hofer: Sustainable Solutions for Modern Economies
Limited supplies of fossil fuels and concerns about global warming have created a strong desire to solve the resource issue in the age ‘beyond petroleum’. This reference book, from the ‘Green …
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€194.99
Anuradha Mishra & James H Clark: Green Materials for Sustainable Water Remediation and Treatment
Inadequate access to clean water afflicts people throughout the world, and in developing countries any solution to this challenge must be achieved at a low cost and low energy demand. At the same tim …
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€184.99
Francesca Kerton & Ray Marriott: Alternative Solvents for Green Chemistry
Everyone is becoming more environmentally conscious and therefore, chemical processes are being developed with their environmental burden in mind. This also means that more traditional chemical metho …
PDF
English
DRM
€184.99
Mauricio A Rostagno & Juliana M Prado: Natural Product Extraction
Natural products are sought after by the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, and research continues into their potential for new applications. Extraction of natural products in an economic …
PDF
English
DRM
€214.99
Santiago V Luis & Eduardo Garcia-Verdugo: Flow Chemistry
Historically pharmaceutical and fine chemical products have been synthesised using batch methods, but increasingly chemists are looking towards flow chemistry as a greener and more efficient alternat …
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English
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€239.99
Y.-H. Zhang & Jingyan Zhang: Chemical Biotechnology and Bioengineering
In biotechnology and bioengineering, small molecules can be used to increase the efficiency reduce the cost and damage to the environment of certain bioprocesses. This book introduces readers to the …
PDF
English
DRM
€159.99
Vânia Zuin & Liliana Mammino: Worldwide Trends in Green Chemistry Education
Educating the next generation of chemists about green chemistry issues, such as waste minimisation and clean synthesis, is vital for environmental sustainability. This book enables green issues to be …
PDF
English
DRM
€52.99
Robin J White: Porous Carbon Materials from Sustainable Precursors
Porous carbon materials are at the heart of many applications, including renewable energy storage and generation, due to their superior physical properties and availability. The …
PDF
English
DRM
€239.99
James H Clark & Andrew Hunt: Sustainable Solvents
Solvents are ubiquitous throughout the chemical industry and are found in many consumer products. As a result, interest in solvents and their environmental impact has been steadily increasing. …
PDF
English
DRM
€239.99
Rafał M. Łukasik: High Pressure Technologies in Biomass Conversion
In recent years carbon dioxide has played an increasingly important role in biomass processing. This book presents the state-of-the-art of a range of diverse approaches for the use of carbon dioxide …
PDF
English
DRM
€164.99
Rainer Höfer & Avtar Singh Matharu: Green Chemistry for Surface Coatings, Inks and Adhesives
Many modern surface coatings and adhesives are derived from fossil feedstocks. With fossil fuels becoming more polluting and expensive to extract as supplies dwindle, industry is turning increasingly …
PDF
English
DRM
€239.99
Roberto Ballini: Green Synthetic Processes and Procedures
The principles of Green Chemistry aim to improve the sustainability of chemical processes and reduce the generation of hazardous substances. There has been great growth in the field over the past few …
PDF
English
DRM
€209.99
Santiago V Luis & Eduardo Garcia-Verdugo: Flow Chemistry
Historically pharmaceutical and fine chemical products have been synthesised using batch methods, but increasingly chemists are looking towards flow chemistry as a greener and more efficient alternat …
PDF
English
DRM
€239.99
