The term green chemistry is defined as:The invention, design and application of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances.
The twelve tenets that form the basis of designing green chemical products and processes are :
Prevent waste
Design safer chemicals and products
Design less hazardous chemical syntheses
Use renewable feedstock’s
Use catalysts, not stoichiometric reagents
Avoid chemical derivatives.
Maximize atom economy
Use safer solvents and reaction conditions
Increase energy efficiency
Design chemicals and products to degrade after use
Analyze in real time to prevent pollution
Minimize the potential for accidents
Benefits to the Industry having Green chemistry products
Savings
Reduction in regulatory & compliance cost of ETP
Saving in water consumption
Process
Increased plant efficiency
Reduced utility cost
Output
Product differentiation for finished product
Social
Community well being
To showcase “Green efforts”
THERMAX OFFERS RANGE OF GREEN CHEMICALS FOR BOILER WATER AND COOLING WATER TREATMENT
GREEN SCALE AND CORROSION INHIBITOR,OXYGEN SCAVENGERS AND NEUTRALIZERS
Green chemistry is used to design new inhibitors, oxygen scavengers and neutralizers with regard to the following criteria.
Contains no heavy metals
Eliminates costs or removal of toxic chemical and sludge disposal
Provides corrosion and scale protection
Provides more efficient heat transfer
Conserves water through higher cycles of Concentration
Offers low dosage economy
Offers simple and easy operator control
It has longer retention time period.
GREEN BIOCIDES
Biocides are typically used in industrial applications to control the growth of microorganisms that can cause a variety of problems in process water systems.
New and relatively benign class of biocides has been developed which posses the following characteristics
Does not bio accumulate in the environment
Are inherently biodegradable
Will not cause problems either to effluent treatment plants or to the environment following discharge into waste water
Provides more efficient heat transfer
Rapidly breaks down in the environment through hydrolysis, oxi¬dation, photo degradation and biodegradation.
Do not contain volatile organic compounds
THERMAX OFFERS RANGE OF GREEN CHEMICALS:
For Cooling Water Treatment
Various type of Scale & Corrosion Inhibitors
Various type of biocides
For Boiler Water Treatment
Sludge Conditioner
Scale & Corrosion Inhibitor for low and medium pressure boilers
pH booster for low & medium pressure boilers
Oxygen scavenger for low and medium pressure boilers
Online Scale & Corrosion Inhibitor
Oxygen scavengers for high pressure boilers
All above range of Green chemicals are developed in line with compliance to the twelve tenets of Green chemistry