Knowledge Agora



Similar Articles

Title Role of chemical reaction engineering for sustainable growth: One industrial perspective from India
ID_Doc 14488
Authors Sapre, A
Title Role of chemical reaction engineering for sustainable growth: One industrial perspective from India
Year 2023
Published Aiche Journal, 69, 1
Abstract Chemical reaction engineering (CRE) is vital to solve many of the pressing societal challenges-energy and energy transition, materials, food, mobility, and so forth, to meet the aspirational goals of developing country population in the face of climate change, changing demographics, and geopolitical challenges. Application of the core principles of CRE to the emerging societal challenges is creating new technologies and cost-effective solutions by integrating the widely varied CRE activities into broad, powerful, systems descriptions with the help of interdisciplinary teams with broad expertise including chemistry, catalysis, chemical kinetics, transport phenomena, biology, applied mathematics and modeling, emerging data science technologies to design and optimize chemical/biochemical reactors. Such developments will be critical for CRE to play an important role in the emerging fourth industrial revolution-amalgamation of physical, digital, and biological worlds, where the velocity of disruption and acceleration of innovation are hard to comprehend or anticipate and such broadening of CRE discipline will be critical for the field to remain agile and relevant. This article describes some latest technical advances in Reliance Industries Ltd. using this philosophy to help achieve sustainable growth and Net Zero business targets. We will broadly discuss renewable hydrogen from novel biomass catalytic gasification, multizone catalytic cracking process to convert crude oil and low value hydrocarbon streams to petrochemical building blocks, an adsorption/desorption process for CO2 concentration and monetization from industrial flue gases. Furthermore, biotechnology advances in leveraging photosynthesis kinetics, synthetic biology, and genetic modifications for converting solar energy and carbon dioxide through algae production will be discussed to produce proteins, biomaterials, renewable biocrude, and so forth. We will also discuss new catalytic technologies to convert mixed plastic waste to stable oil and organic waste such as agri and municipal solid waste, and so forth, to biocrude for circular economy, and biodegradable plastics production to manage plastics pollution.
PDF

Similar Articles

ID Score Article
33823 Xia, A; Chen, R; Fu, Q; Zhu, XQ; Zhu, X; Liao, Q Progress on renewable synthetic fuels(2020)Chinese Science Bulletin-Chinese, 65.0, 18
20510 Coniglio, L Illustrations of the Synergy Between Thermodynamics and Chemical Reaction into the Triptych "Bioproducts-Bioenergy-Water"(2024)Journal Of Solution Chemistry, 53, 4
22760 Lozano, FJ; Lozano, R; Freire, P; Jiménez-Gonzalez, C; Sakao, T; Ortiz, MG; Trianni, A; Carpenter, A; Viveros, T New perspectives for green and sustainable chemistry and engineering: Approaches from sustainable resource and energy use, management, and transformation(2018)
28103 Abbas, A; Cross, M; Duan, XG; Jeschke, S; Konarova, M; Huber, GW; Lee, AF; Lovell, EC; Lim, JYC; Polyzos, A; Richards, R; Wilson, K Catalysis at the intersection of sustainable chemistry and a circular economy(2024)One Earth, 7.0, 5
71344 Hempel, M Funding activities by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt) in the field of sustainable chemistry(2012)Green Processing And Synthesis, 1.0, 3
504 Ncube, A; Mtetwa, S; Bukhari, M; Fiorentino, G; Passaro, R Circular Economy and Green Chemistry: The Need for Radical Innovative Approaches in the Design for New Products(2023)Energies, 16, 4
19193 Glavic, P; Pintaric, ZN; Levicnik, H; Dragojlovic, V; Bogataj, M Transitioning towards Net-Zero Emissions in Chemical and Process Industries: A Holistic Perspective(2023)Processes, 11.0, 9
35693 Zhang, SJ; Zhang, XP; Shi, CY; Wang, K; Yuan, L Revolutionary technology of low-carbon chemical processes(2023)National Science Review, 10, 9
10749 Martin-Espejo, JL; Gandara-Loe, J; Odriozola, JA; Reina, TR; Pastor-Perez, L Sustainable routes for acetic acid production: Traditional processes vs a low-carbon, biogas-based strategy(2022)
5786 Silvestri, C; Silvestri, L; Forcina, A; Di Bona, G; Falcone, D Green chemistry contribution towards more equitable global sustainability and greater circular economy: A systematic literature review(2021)
Scroll