Green and Industrial Chemistry

Course manual 2023/2024

Course content

This course contains important principles of industrial chemistry and green chemistry. The course will start with the industrial chemistry part, which describes the application of chemical principles in chemical industries. The concepts that will be introduced in this course are kinetics, thermodynamics (what is needed for reactor design) mass and energy balance, application of mass balance to the design of reactors, various type of reactors and their design and economic aspects, economics of chemical processes and  the design of a process combining all these information.

 The principles of green chemistry serve as a conceptual framework to guide the design, manufacture, use, and recycling or disposal of chemical products in an economically, environmentally, and socially responsible way. However, to advance green chemistry, a significant change must occur in how the next generation of scientists are trained. This is the guiding objective of this course for the green chemistry part.

 The specific subjects covered in more detail are

• Kinetics  and thermodynamics needed for industrial chemistry
• Basic terms such as conversion, selectivity, recycle,
• simulation of chemical processes, design of chemical processes
• Mass balance and heat balance and their application to chemical processes

• Various types of chemical reactors and their design

• Application of design equations to real cases

• Brief introduction of Economics of chemical processes

• Definition and twelve principles of Green Chemistry.

• Green Chemistry Metrics. Atom economy and reduction of waste. Types of chemical reactions with atom economy.

• Designing greener, safer chemical synthesis: selection of different chemistries, solvents, materials, catalysts, reaction conditions.

• Renewable Resources

• Emerging Greener Technologies and Alternative Energy Sources- Chemical recycling

• Industrial Case Studies

Students can understand the course better when they already learned the fundamental principles of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry.

Study materials

Literature

• 'Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Practical Design Approach', concepción Jiménez-González, David J.C. Constable, Wiley, 2011.

• Chemical reaction engineering by Octave Levenspiel

• GREEN ENGINEERING: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes, DAVID T.ALLEN
  AND DAVID R. SHONNARD, Prentice Hall, 2002

• Chemical Process Technology, JACOB A. MOULIJN, MICHIEL MAKKEE, ANNELIES E. VAN DIEPEN, Wiley

• Chemical Engineering Design Project. A Case Study Approach by M.S. Ray and D.W. Johnston, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers.

• Green Chemical Engineering, An Introduction to Catalysis, Kinetics, and Chemical Processes, S. Suresh and S. Sundaramoorthy, CRC Press

• CHEMICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN, Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process Design, GAVIN TOWLER, RAY SINNOTT, Elsevier, Chapter 2

• Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering, J. H. Harker, J. R. Backhurst, J. F. Richardson, and J.
  M. Coulson- Volume 2, Fifth edition, 2002. 

• Mike Lancaster, 'Green Chemistry: An Introductory Text', RSC Publishing, Cambridge, UK.

• There is no single text book for this course; so, it is important to refer multiple literature (also mentioned in the canvas) and also to attend the classes. Specific chapters of each book is also mentioned in canvas. The most important ones are 'Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Practical Design Approach', concepción Jiménez-González, David J.C. Constable, Wiley, 2011 and Chemical Engineering Design Project. A Case Study Approach by M.S. Ray and D.W. Johnston, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers.

Syllabus

• 1. Introduction to industrial chemistry, Flow sheets, Mass and Energy balances:
  Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Practical Design Approach, Concepción Jiménez-González,
  David J.C. Constable, Wiley, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-470-17087-8
   Part 3 Chapter 9
  2. Kinetics
  Chemical Reaction Engineering, Octave Levenspiel, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999 (4th edition is also good)
   Chapters 1-2
  3. Reactors
  Chemical Reaction Engineering, Octave Levenspiel, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999
  Chapter 4, Chapter 5 (mainly), Chapter 6
  4. Packed bed, packed columns
  Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering, J. H. Harker, J. R. Backhurst, J. F. Richardson, and J.
  M. Coulson- Volume 2, Fifth edition, 2002. Chapter 4.
  5. Fluidised beds
  Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering, J. H. Harker, J. R. Backhurst, J. F. Richardson, and J.
  M. Coulson- Volume 2, Fifth edition, 2002. Chapter 6.
  6. Green Chemistry, Green Engineering Principles, green chemistry metrics
  Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Practical Design Approach, Concepción Jiménez-González,
  David J.C. Constable, Wiley, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-470-17087-8
   Part 1, Chapters 1-4
  7. Designing greener, safer chemical synthesis processes
  Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Practical Design Approach, Concepción Jiménez-González,
  David J.C. Constable, Wiley, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-470-17087-8
  Part 2 chapters 5-7
  8. Life cycle assessment (LCA)
  Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Practical Design Approach, Concepción Jiménez-González,
  David J.C. Constable, Wiley, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-470-17087-8
   Part 4 chapter 16
  9. Pollution prevention/increasing greenness of chemical reactors
  GREEN ENGINEERING: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes, DAVID T.ALLEN
  AND DAVID R. SHONNARD, Prentice Hall, 2002
   Chapter 9
  10. Economics of chemical processes
  Lecture notes and articles.

Software

• DWSim, COCO (open source process simulation softwares)

Other

• Institute website 'American Chemical Society Green Chemistry': http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_TRANSITIONMAIN&node_id=830&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=13fd5435-389e-4a2e-b699-8a4b57d0269c.

Objectives

• Describe basic chemical processes involved in the production of major commercial products used in society.
• Describe the basic kinetics needed for industrial chemistry.
• Apply the mass and heat balance for the design of industrial reactors.
• Apply design equations to real industrial cases.
• Describe basic economics of chemical processes.
• Define the principles of green chemistry and identify the grand challenges of green chemistry.
• Analyse the cost/benefit/impact of traditional industrial chemical processes on society.
• Evaluate the role of green chemistry for efficient yet sustainable processes and materials.
• The student is able to work in a team.
• The student is able to collect and analyse existing data.
• The student is able to prepare and deliver information in an oral/verbal way (report/oral presentation).

Teaching methods

• Lecture
• Presentation/symposium
• Self-study
• Working independently on e.g. a project or thesis
• Computer lab session/practical training
• Fieldwork/excursion

Lezingen, opdrachten, presentaties van studenten en (eventueel) een industrieel bezoek. Studenten zullen een korte presentatie voorbereiden over een case study gerelateerd aan groene/industriële chemie. We zullen ook proberen om enkele gastcolleges door sprekers uit de industrie te regelen.

Learning activities

Attendance

Programme's requirements concerning attendance (OER-B):

• Active participation is expected of each student in the course for which he is registered.
• If a student cannot attend an obligatory part of a programme's component due to circumstances beyond his control, he must report in writing to the teacher in question as soon as possible. The teacher, if necessary after consulting the study adviser, may decide to issue the student a replacing assignment.
• It is not allowed to miss obligatory parts of the programme's component if there is no case of circumstances beyond one's control.
• In case of participating qualitatively or quantitatively insufficiently, the examiner can expel a student from further participation in the programme's component or a part of that component. Conditions for sufficient participation are fixed in advance in the study guide and/or on Canvas.

Additional requirements for this course:

There is no single text book for this course; so, it is important to refer multiple literature (mentioned in the canvas) and also to attend the classes regularly to completely understand and follow the course.

Assessment

The assessment includes presentations and design project in addition to the written exam. There will be also regular exercises in the class.

Assignments

Green chemistry/Green Engineering principles

• Presentation of selected principles

Design project

• Students will select a reaction and design it into a process.

The assessment includes presentations and design project in addition to the written exam. The final mark includes every component.

Fraud and plagiarism

The 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' applies to this course. This will be monitored carefully. Upon suspicion of fraud or plagiarism the Examinations Board of the programme will be informed. For the 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' see: www.student.uva.nl

Course structure

Additional information

Aanbevolen voorkennis: Van studenten wordt verwacht dat zij basiskennis hebben van de algemene chemie.

Contact information

Coordinator

• dr. Shiju Raveendran Shiju