Green Technology

Overview

The dozen principles of green technology are :

• Pollution Prevention at Source 2. Atom Economy 3. Less Hazardous Chemical Synthesis 4. Designing Safer Chemicals 5. Safer Solvents 6. Design for Energy Efficiency 7. Use of Renewable Feedstocks (Biomass, Biowaste) 8. Reduce Derivatives 9. Catalysis – Chemical and Biological 10. Design for Degradation 11. Real-time Analysis for Pollution Prevention 12. Inherently Safer Chemistry for Accident Prevention

• The manufacturing activity of specialty chemicals is conveniently classified into several unit processes such as, hydrogenation, oxidation, nitration, esterification, halogenation, alkylation and acylation, sulphonation etc. All these unit processes will be carefully investigated for a large number of real applications in terms of chemistry, mechanism, alternative routes and solvents, catalysts and kinetics. These are highly polluting processes. At least one of processes is used in a chemical plant and thus the use of principles of green chemistry and technology become very important in making them eco-friendly.

Mission of the Green Technology program at the Institute of Chemical Technology

• To promote the objectives, principles and outcome of green processes and products. 

• To transmit research outcome to industry for making processes and products environmentally benign. 

• Human resource development with awareness of environment and hazard related issues. 

• To undertake sponsored projects of national relevance. 
• To get quality publications in pear reviewed journals, national and international forums for the benefit of scientific community and society.