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'Green' chemistry award winners
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ow in its 27th year, the Green Chemistry Challenge Awards
recognize and promote chemical technologies that reduce
hazards to people and the environment by incorporating the
principles of green chemistry into chemical design, manufacture
and use. The program is sponsored by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's (EPA; www.epa.gov) Office of Chemical Safety and
Pollution Prevention, in partnership with the American Chemical Society
Green Chemistry Institute (ACS; www.acs.org), along with other members
of the chemical community. Since 1996 there have been a total of
139 winners, including the following six outstanding achievements that
are the recently announced 2023 winners (Source: EPA):
Greener Synthetic Pathways - Solugen (www.solugen.com) was
recognized for its novel bio-based manufacturing platform, Bioforge.
This first-of-its-kind chemoenzymatic manufacturing process has
three primary steps comprising a cell-free enzymatic reactor, a metal
reactor and an evaporator, which uses mechanical vapor recompression
technology powered by wind energy. The process is said to be
able to handle complex syntheses such as those in fermentation, but
is not limited to the conditions required by living microbes.
Greener Reaction Conditions - This award went to Captis Aire LLC
(www.captisaire.com) for its patent-pending CAIRE technology that
converts terpenes into useful products. Terpenes are a waste product
from wood manufacturing processes that are typically burned for
fuel value. The award-winning technology captures the terpenes and
converts them into a useable form for further processing, such as for
biofuels, flavors and fragrances. The process was successfully demonstrated
at three commercial wood-product manufacturing facilities.
Design of Greener Chemicals - The Clorox Company (www.the
cloroxcompany.com) received this award for developing a disinfecting
cleaner that can be used without personal protective equipment,
does not bleach surfaces and contains no alcohol. Clorox EcoClean
uses lactic acid as the active ingredient. The patented formula overcomes
previous limitations in the use of lactic acid as a disinfectant.
Small Business - This award recognizes Modern Meadow (www.
modernmeadow.com) for its textile dyeing process that is said to use
95% less water, 75% less energy and 80% fewer dyes and chemicals
compared to traditional dyeing methods. The process, called BioFREED
(Fast Resource Efficient Enhanced Dyeing) does not require a
separate step to fix the dye and requires one or no washes at the end of
the process, compared to 4-7 washes for traditional dyeing processes.
Academic Category - This honor was awarded to Professor Richard
Laine from the University of Michigan (www.umich.edu) for developing
a method to process rice hull ash - ash that results from
burning the agricultural waste material rice hulls - into spirosiloxane
that can be used to produce products, such as lithium-ion conducting
polymers with potential use in solid-state batteries.
Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change - Air Company
(www.aircompany.com) was recognized for its carbon dioxide
removal technology that reacts CO2 captured from
industrial plants with " green " hydrogen produced
by electrolysis, to manufacture numerous products,
including methanol, ethanol and other compounds
for fuels.
More details about the award process and the
winners can be found on the EPA's website, as well
as the individual company websites.
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DECEMBER 2023
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