Technology green

There are, however, limits to pollution prevention, and indeed, there are simply situations where it is more costly to invest in so-called green technologies, as opposed to relying on traditional pollution control systems. 

By converting the plant to natural gas, we displace the use of coal and eliminate the hazardous air emissions associated with its combustion — but we need to invest into a new technology. The new process is generically referred to as cleaner production, simply because it is inherently cleaner or less polluting, and the technology is referred to as green technology. ... 

This example leads us to a very important observation. While pollution prevention may seem like the obvious thing to do, it is not always cost effective, and investments into re-engineering processes must be carefully scrutinized. In fact, in this example, we see environmental legislation that actually discourages investments into green technologies, which in itself is contrary to national policy under the Pollution Prevention Act. 

The green technology trend is shaping the future of the chemicals used in the elastomer industry and this is easily realized from the following ... 

Molecular Green Technology College Station, Texas... 

Strauss HS (1997) Is bioremediation a green technology J Soil Contam 6 219-225. 

To achieve sustainable production through biorefineries, engineers can look to specific chemical processes that draw on green technological alternatives. Whereas the principles... 

Ten Brink et al. (2000) have shown how biphasic systems, sometimes with the sparingly soluble alcohols as one phase and an aqueous phase as the other phase, benefit from the strategy for air oxidation to aldehydes/ketones by using water soluble Pd complex of bathophenanthroline disulphonate. This is a nice example of green technology. 

In contrast to past environmental problems associated with fluorocarbon refrigerants, the exceptional properties of fluorine in polymers have great environmental value. Some fluoropolymers are enabling green technologies such as hydrogen fuel cells for automobiles and oxygen-selective membranes for cleaner diesel combustion. 

Biocatalysis has long been known as a green technology, capable of delivering highly stereo-, chemo- and regioselective transformations that can sometimes allow... 

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