Modern societies produce large amounts of waste of many different types. This presents a problem in terms of management or disposal to prevent harm to human health and the environment. Additionally it represents a loss of potentially useful resources. In the circular economy concept nothing would ever become waste because everything would be re-usable or its components recoverable. Ionic liquids provide a potential route for valorisation of different waste types, paving the way for a circular economy and a more sustainable world.
Covering various types of waste, including municipal, industrial, electronic, and medical, while addressing patented and commercial applications, this book aims to deliver a comprehensive, but also critical, perspective on the application of ionic liquids towards waste valorisation.
Waste Valorisation Using Ionic Liquids is a useful resource for academic and industrial players, in the fields of chemistry, chemical and environmental engineering, and biotechnology, as well as anyone working on waste management and resource recovery.
Table of Content
Waste and Circular Economy;Ionic Liquids as Technological Solutions in Waste Valorisation;Municipal Waste; Industrial Waste;E-waste;Medical and Biological Samples Waste;Patented and Commercialized Ionic-liquid-based Processes for Waste Valorisation;Critical Considerations for Developing Sustainable Ionic-liquid-based Valorisation Strategies for Waste;Future Perspectives and Concluding Remarks
About the author
João A. P. Coutinho is Full Professor at the Chemistry Department of University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he is vice-director of CICECO, one of the leading European Laboratories in Materials Science. He leads a multidisciplinary research team that focuses on the development of green solvents and novel separation processes for biorefinery and circular economy. Currently he strives to apply biobased solvents, DES and ionic liquids to these processes and attempts to better understand their physical-chemical behavior. He supervised over 50 MSc, 30 Ph D thesis and 25 Post Doctoral Fellows, authored over 650-refereed papers (h-factor 80, > 27000 citations) and 15 patents.
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