Chemingineering – War and Sustainability
– K Sahasranaman, Independent Consultant
The world needs to move towards Net-Zero as swiftly as possible. The ongoing Ukraine war is threatening to derail these efforts. Past wars led to re-examining our relationship with energy. This is yet another opportunity to reshape global energy landscape.
Sustainability: Chemical Industries Need More Stakeholder Collaboration
– Dr MP Sukumaran Nair, FIE
For sustainable development the focus should be on renewable energy and decarbonisation. Many global declarations are in place on this. Chemical industry has a lot to do for enabling sustainability.
Carbon Capture Technologies Move to the Forefront
– Mark Sen Gupta, ARC Advisory Group
The industry is shifting gears to cleaner sources of energy; but it’s going to take time. The article highlights the importance of carbon capture and sequestering; the advances in this area that will have to be resorted to in the short term.
Sustainability, Hydrogen Economy and Agriculture: How farmers can valorize agri-waste and increase income?
– Professor (Dr.) Ganapati D. Yadav
When agricultural wastes can be transformed into chemicals, polymers and materials, why should it be wasted? The article highlights how farmers have good opportunities to make a variety of products from agricultural wastes using myriad developed technologies
which can supplement their income.
Hydrodynamic Cavitation as a sustainable and promising Technology for pre-treatment of Biomass
– Dr. Alka Kumari. et.al, IICT-Hyderabad
The conversion of biomass and agricultural wastes into value added products is work in progress. Better conversion necessitates effective pre-treatment. The article highlights the importance of different cavitation methods for pre-treatment.
Sustainable Sugar Industry
– Munagala Meghana, Yogendra Shastri, IIT-Bombay
Sugarcane juice can be used in the production of variety of chemicals. Various techniques and technologies in the production of multiple value added products, efficient waste handling methods and the range of products possible from sugarcane that can justify
an integrated sugar complex are described.
Sustainable Water Treatment Technologies
– Lakshmana Rao V, Nanda Kishore Desapande, TCE Ltd
Sustainable water management is one of the ways towards sustainable development. The authors describe the suite of waste water technologies that make possible zero discharge to recycling and reuse.
