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Green Chemistry

pipe_fieldThe Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry*

  1. Prevention – It is better to prevent waste than to treat or clean up waste after it has been created.
  2. Atom Economy – Synthetic methods should be designed to maximize the incorporation of all materials used in the process into the final product.
  3. Less Hazardous Chemical Syntheses – Wherever practicable, synthetic methods should be designed to use and generate substances that possess little or no toxicity to human health and the environment.
  4. Designing Safer Chemicals – Chemical products should be designed to effect their desired function while minimizing their toxicity.
  5. Safer Solvents and Auxiliaries – The use of auxiliary substances (e.g., solvents, separation agents, etc.) should be made unnecessary wherever possible and innocuous when used.
  6. Design for Energy Efficiency – Energy requirements of chemical processes should be recognized for their environmental and economic impacts and should be minimized. If possible, synthetic methods should be conducted at ambient temperature and pressure.
  7. Use of Renewable Feedstocks – A raw material or feedstock should be renewable rather than depleting whenever technically and economically practicable.
  8. Reduce Derivatives – Unnecessary derivatization (use of blocking groups, protection/ deprotection, temporary modification of physical/chemical processes) should be minimized or avoided if possible, because such steps require additional reagents and can generate waste.
  9. Catalysis – Catalytic reagents (as selective as possible) are superior to stoichiometric reagents.
  10. Design for Degradation – Chemical products should be designed so that at the end of their function they break down into innocuous degradation products and do not persist in the environment.
  11. Real-time analysis for Pollution Prevention – Analytical methodologies need to be further developed to allow for real-time, in-process monitoring and control prior to the formation of hazardous substances.
  12. Inherently Safer Chemistry for Accident Prevention – Substances and the form of a substance used in a chemical process should be chosen to minimize the potential for chemical accidents, including releases, explosions, and fires.

*Anastas, P. T.; Warner, J. C.; Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press: New York, 1998, p.30.

Management Team

James Y. Lancaster
CEO, Chairman

Neil Summer, PhD
President, Co-Founder

Elizabeth Summer, PhD
Vice President, Research, Co-Founder

Keith McLeroy Senior Industry Consultant

Geddy Hamblen, MS
Director of Microbiology

Recent Posts

  • Ecolyse Research Featured in 2018 The Analyst The Voice of the Water Treatment Industry October 25, 2018
  • CTO Liz Summer presents at Best of RPSEA 10 Years of Research Conference September 17, 2016
  • Ecolyse Research featured in 2015 NACE CORROSION CorrCompilation March 18, 2015
  • Ecolyse presents at Recent Advances Microbial Control 2014 San Fransisco, CA November 9, 2014
  • Ecolyse Research presented at NACE CORROSION 2014 March 12, 2014
  • Ecolyse Ethanol Research Featured in CEP Magazine January 1, 2014
  • Jerome Brown joins Ecolyse December 10, 2013
  • Patent awarded to Ecolyse’s Phage Biocontrol Research department November 19, 2013
  • Ecolyse Research presented at NACE CORROSION 2013 in Orlando, FL March 17, 2013
  • Ecolyse Research presented at Recent Advances in Microbial Control 2012 in Alexandria, VA October 28, 2012

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