Green chemical engineering in China

  • Xiangping Zhang
  • , Changjun Liu
  • , Qilong Ren
  • , Xueqing Qiu
  • , Baohua Xu
  • , Xintong Zhou
  • , Yuanbang Xie
  • , Hongming Lou
  • , Mohammad Chand Ali
  • , Hongshuai Gao
  • , Yinge Bai
  • , Suojiang Zhang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In China, the rapid development greatly promotes the national economic power and living standard but also inevitably brings a series of environmental problems. In order to resolve these problems fundamentally, Chinese scientists have been undertaking research in the area of green chemical engineering (GCE) for many years and achieved great progresses. In this paper, we reviewed the research progresses related to GCE in China and screened four typical topics related to the Chinese resources characteristics and environmental requirements, i.e. ionic liquids and their applications, biomass utilization and bio-based materials/products, green solvent-mediated extraction technologies, and cold plasmas for coal conversion. Afterwards, the perspectives and development tendencies of GCE were proposed, and the challenges which will be faced while developing available industrial technologies in China were mentioned.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)995-1077
Number of pages83
JournalReviews in Chemical Engineering
Volume35
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 1982
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Bio-based materials/products
  • Cold plasma
  • Green chemical engineering
  • Green solvent-mediated extraction
  • Ionic liquids.

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