Sustainability and Performance An Overview

An overview of sustainability and performance, which links the intangibles of sustainability to market performance. 

In an overview, the purpose of a sustainability report is succinctly stated Sustainability reporting is the practice of measuring, disclosing, and being accountable to internal and external stakeholders for organizational performance towards the goal of sustainable development. ... 

After a brief historical overview, the various approaches to the scale-up of microwave chemistry will be discussed. This will be followed by a section detailing the current commercially available microwave reactors for scale-up. Practical applications and concerns will be addressed together with a discussion of reaction classes that work particularly well in microwave reactors. Chemistry that has been performed in the different available reactors will be presented in order to exan-plify particular techniques and practices, but the discussion will not attempt to be exhaustive since several other books and reviews have already attempted this." Attention here will be drawn to special features and uses. Further applications to demonstrate how microwave heating can be used as an investigative tool at the small scale for process chemists and others wiU foUow. In accordance with the main theme of sustainability of this book, the current hot topic of the energy efficiency of microwave heating will also be covered in this chapter. Recent developments in the area of pilot-scale microwave chemistry will be noted before the final conclusions. 

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