Green improvement

EATOS can also be used as a powerful tool to drive the green improvement of a chemical synthetic sequence. For example, from Table 16.1 it is clear that, in absolute terms, the greatest contribution to environmental impact of both routes comes from the auxiliaries materials, that is, materials used for isolation and/or purification of the product. Therefore, efforts to further decrease waste environmental impact should be directed, in the first place, towards finding alternative and greener isolation procedures. 

In this sense, EATOS can again be very useful since it can be used to rapidly answer a manifold of what if questions. 

This chapter has presented a quantitative assessment of the environmental impact of two alternative procedures for the preparation of Elliott s alcohol. The assessment was made with the aid of the EATOS tool. This is an easy to use software tool that can be used routinely to assess the greenness of reactions or synthetic schemes. Its simplicity allows for a daily routine use, thus favoring the introduction of green elements at a very early stage of synthetic process design. 

Moreover, the results of this comparison show that the alternative process allows a significant reduction of the mass of waste, the environmental impact of waste and of the hazards and costs associated with the materials used for the process. With the aid of the EATOS tool it was also possible to establish the process zones were most of the environmental impact is produced. From the analysis, it clearly emerged that the use of other green metrics based only on waste mass would have led to different or underestimated results. 

12 Eissen, M. and Metzger, J.O., EATOS (Environmental Assessment Tool for Organic Syntheses). http //www.chemie. 

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In Fig. 3a,b are shown respectively the modulus of the measured magnetic induction and the computed one. In Fig. 3c,d we compare the modulus and the Lissajous curves on a line j/ = 0. The results show a good agreement between simulated data and experimental data for the modulus. We can see a difference between the two curves in Fig. 3d this one can issue from the Born approximation. These results would be improved if we take into account the angle of inclination of the sensor. This work, which is one of our future developpements, makes necessary to calculate the radial component of the magnetic field due to the presence of flaw. This implies the calculation of a new Green s function. 

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Special pink or mby variations of the white abrasive are produced by adding small amounts of chromium compounds to the melt. The color is dependent on the amount of chromium added. A green alumina, developed by Simonds Abrasives, results from small additions of vanadia [11099-11-9]. Each was developed to improve on the suitabiUty of white abrasive for tool and precision grinding. 

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Waterborne contact adhesives contain an elastomer in latex form, usually an acryflc or neoprene-based latex, and a heat-reactive, cross-linkable phenohc resin in the form of an aqueous dispersion. The phenoHc resin improves metal adhesion, green strength, and peel strength at elevated temperature. A typical formulation contains three parts latex and one part phenohc dispersion (dry weight bases). Although metal oxides may be added, reaction of the oxide with the phenohc resin does not occur readily. 

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