Green Catalysis and Reaction Engineering

Bala Subramaniam is the Dan F. Servey distinguished professor of chemical engineering, and the director of the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis at the University of Kansas.

• 1. Sustainability challenges of the chemical industry; 2. Multiphase catalytic processes and sustainability challenges; 3. Ethylene production from diverse feedstocks and energy sources: environmental impact assessment; 4. Ethylene epoxidation in gas-expanded liquids with negligible CO2 formation as byproduct: comparative sustainability analysis with conventional process; 5. Spray reactor based teraphthalic acid production as a more sustainable alternative to the mid-century process; 6. Sustainability assessments of hydrogen peroxide-based and tertiary butyl hydroperoxide-based propylene oxide technologies; 7. Separation of propane/propylene mixture by selective propylene hydroformylation in gas-expanded liquids: economic and environmental impact analyses; 8. A greener hydroformylation process; 9. Solid acid catalyzed olefin/isoparaffin alkylation in supercritical carbon dioxide; 10. Epilogue: outlook.