Environmental Assessment — Green Chemistry Expert System GCES

1 Environmental Assessment — Green Chemistry Expert System (GCES) 

Green Chemistry covers the design of new chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. The program is based on 12 principles (adopted from [34])  

Design chemicals and products to degrade after use. Analyze in real time to prevent pollution. 

Based on these principles, the Green Chemistry initiative supports basic research to provide the chemical tools and methods necessary to design and develop environmentally sound products and processes. The EPA funded a series of basic research projects that consider impacts to human health and the environment in the design of chemical syntheses and other areas of chemistry. One of the outcomes of these efforts is the Green Chemistry Expert System (GCES) [35]. 

Synthetic Methodology Assessment for Reduction Techniques (SMART) A program adapted from the EPAs SMART review process and designed to quantify and categorize hazardous materials used in a manufacturing process. Green Synthetic Reactions Provides a searchable database of synthetic processes and identifies alternative processes published to replace more hazardous materials with less hazardous ones. 

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