Industrial chemistry Brazil

The transportation industry has many of the worldwide auto producers represented in seven Latin American countries. Brazil is the volume leader (over 1 million autos and trucks in 1979), followed by Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela. These auto producers are rapidly adopting the concept of molded polyurethane foam seating including the superior cushioning of high resiliency foams. The pressure for increased fuel economy via weight rein Urethane Chemistry and Applications Edwards, K., et al. ... 

Roller, M., Hesse, P.J, Kutschera, C. et al. (2010) Sustainable embedding of the bioplastic poly-(3-hydroxybutyrate) into sugarcane industry principles of a future-oriented technology in Brazil, in The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry 12 Polymers - Opportunities and Risks II (eds P. Eyerer, M. Weller and C. Hiibner), Springer, Berlin, pp. 81-96. 

Still on books and didactic material, a relevant example is the book Green Chemistry Fundamentals and Methods, which is solely about GC and summarizes thematic indexes, academic initiatives and industrial applications of GC in Brazil. 

Green chemistry in Brazil Recent activities Fortaleza workshop on Network studies by the CGEE text on strategies for Brazil the chemical industry and renewable raw materials... 

Abraham D. Stroock, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Marcia M. Szortyka, Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Caixa Postal 476, 88010-970, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil Hajime Tanaka, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan Hideki Tanaka, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kitaku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan... 

The first record of acidic precipitation in Brazil appeared in the literature at the end of the 1970 s as part of nutrient cycling studies in forested areas, but only in the 1980 s does the literature begin to contain specific papers concerning precipitation chemistry in urban centres and industrial zones. 

In 1979-1980 Crutzen and co-workers drew attention to the great importance of the tropics in atmospheric chemistry. In particular, some measurement campaigns in Brazil clearly showed that biomass burning in the tropics was a major source of air pollutants, on a par with, or larger than, industrial pollution in the developed world. 

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