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Green Chemistry
More on Working
to Prevent Pollution
OPPT's Green Chemistry Program works with the chemical community to promote the environmentally conscious design of chemical products and processes that are safer to human health and the environment. The Program's flagship activity, the annual Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, encourages and recognizes the significant scientific, economic, human health, and environmental benefits that green chemistry technologies offer.
The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Program celebrated its 13th year at the June 2008 awards ceremony. To date the Program has given out 67 awards -- 14 awards to academic researchers, 13 awards to small businesses, and 40 awards to larger businesses and organizations.
Accomplishments
- Together, all Green Chemistry award-winning technologies have resulted in:
- 193 million pounds of hazardous chemicals and solvents eliminated each year -- enough to fill 890 railroad tank cars or a train 11 miles long;
- 21 billion gallons of water saved each year -- the amount used by 820,000 people annually; and
- 57 million pounds of carbon dioxide releases to air eliminated each year -- equal to taking 6,000 automobiles off the road.
- More than 1,000 innovative technologies have been nominated for the Green Chemistry awards. The total benefits from all of these technologies include:
- 1.2 billion pounds per year of hazardous chemicals eliminated;
- 21 billion gallons of water per year saved (this includes both water used and waste water eliminated);
- 81 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions prevented; and
- 120 billion Btu saved.
- Greener Synthetic Pathways Award
Battelle
"Development and Commercialization of Biobased Toners"
- Greener Reaction Conditions Award
Nalco Co.
"3D TRASAR® Technology"
- Designing Greener Chemicals Award
Dow AgroSciences
"Spinetoram: Enhancing a Natural Product for Insect Control"
- Small Business Award
SiGNa Chemistry, Inc.
"New Stabilized Alkali Metals for Safer, Sustainable Syntheses"
- Academic Award
Professor Robert E. Maleczka, Jr., Michigan State University
Professor Milton R. Smith, III, Michigan State University
"Green Chemistry for Preparing Boronic Esters"
- Greener Synthetic Pathways Award
Professor Kaichang Li, Oregon State University
Columbia Forest Products
Hercules Inc.
“Development and Commercial Application of Environmentally Friendly Adhesives for Wood Composites”
- Greener Reaction Conditions Award
Headwaters Technology Innovation
“Direct Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide by Selective Nanocatalyst Technology”
- Designing Greener Chemicals Award
Cargill, Inc.
“BiOH™ Polyols”
- Small Business Award
NovaSterilis Inc.
“Environmentally Benign Medical Sterilization Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide”
- Academic Award
Professor Michael J. Krische, University of Texas at Austin
“Hydrogen-Mediated Carbon–Carbon Bond Formation”