Forum Standing Committee Working Groups
Substitution and Alternatives
Case studies - Examples
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Solvent Replacement for Green Processing
Julie Sherman, Bain Chin, Paul D.T. Huibers, Ricard Garcia-Valls, and T. Alan Hatton
Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Abstract
The implementation of the Montreal Protocol, the Clean Air Act, and the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 has resulted in increased awareness of organic solvent use in chemical processing. The advances made in the search to find "green" replacements for traditional solvents are reviewed, with reference to solvent alternatives for cleaning, coatings, and chemical reaction and separation processes. The development of solvent databases and computational methods that aid in the selection and/or design of feasible or optimal environmentally benign solvent alternatives for specific applications is also discussed. -- Environ Health Perspect 106(Suppl 1) :253-271 (1998)