Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge

Green Chemistry is the utilization of a set of principles that reduces or eliminates the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of chemical processes. This non-regulatory approach for pollution prevention occupies a pivotal position in the management of hazardous substances and has been quite successful as evidenced, for example, in the United States by the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. ... 

EPA (2007) Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics. Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, www.epa.gov/greenchemistry/pubs/pgcc/presgcc.html... 

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, 24 168, 171 Presinter thermal processing, ceramics,... 

Results—Two Georgia Tech faculty members who have collaborated for more than 15 years on sustainable chemical processes are among the winners of 2004 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. Other examples of results could be published journal articles or recognition from the scientific community. 

United States Environmental Protection Agency (2008) The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award Recipients, 1996-2008, June 2008. 

In 1992 BHC (Boots Hoechst-Celanese) Company commercialized a new synthetic process to manufacture ibuprofen in BHC s 3500 metric-ton-per-year facility in Bishop/TX, USA, which was cited as an industry model of environmental excellence in chemical processing technology. For its innovation, BHC was the recipient of the 1997 Alternative Synthetic Pathways Award of the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge. 

Starting in 1996, outstanding examples of green chemistry have been recognized in the United States each year by the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge (PGCC) awards. These are the only awards in chemistry that are bestowed at the presidential level. 

This manufacturing process received the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2006) for alternative synthetic pathways, the IChemE AstraZeneca Award for excellence in green chemistry and chemical engineering (2005), and the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award (2009) for Merck s U.S. Pat. 7,468,459. 

In the USA the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards [7] were introduced to stimulate the application of the principles of green chemistry and many chemical and pharmaceutical companies have received awards for the development of greener processes and products, e.g. Pfizer for developing a greener process for sildenafil manufacture (see Chapter 7). 

GREENCAT A process for making oxide catalysts that minimizes the production of wastewater and uses no nitrates. Developed by Siid-Chemie and piloted in Louisville, KY, from 2001. The process received the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in 2003. 

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