Green Chemistry. Sustainability is:- Development which meets the needs of people today without...

Green Chemistry

Sustainability is:-

Development which meets the needs of people today without worrying how future generations can meet their needs.

TRUE OR FALSE?

TRUE OR FALSE?

Natural gas is a renewable feedstock.

TRUE OR FALSE?

Drugs, food additives and pesticides are all fine chemicals.

TRUE OR FALSE?

TRUE OR FALSE?

The optimum temperatures at which genetically modified E Coli converts waste into ethanoic acid are between 25oC to 37oC.

TRUE OR FALSE?

TRUE OR FALSE?

Refluxing concentrates ethanol to make brandy and whisky.

TRUE OR FALSE?

TRUE OR FALSE?

PET bottles are recycled to make fibres and non-food containers.

OPEN OR CLOSED RECYCLING?

PET bottles are recycled to make new containers for food and drink.

OPEN OR CLOSED RECYCLING?

Which of the following are bulk chemicals?

a.ammoniab.drugsc.ethened.food additives

Which of the following are renewable feedstocks?

a.crude oilb.elephant grassc.saltd.starch

The raw material for making synthetic ethanol

is:-a.crude oilb.municipal wastec.plant sugarsd.sugar cane

Which is the most sustainable method of

dealing with waste in your “wheelie bin”?

a. incinerate or burnb. landfillc. recycled. reduce the amount of waste

The advantage of making ethanol by the synthetic route

is:- a. the purification process is

expensiveb. there is 100% atom economyc. the raw material is a fossil fueld. toxic benzene is needed in the

drying process

Which are the best examples of reducing

waste? a. dumping waste into landfillb. burning waste gas without

using the energyc. recycling polymer based

carpetsd. using PET bottle to make

fibres

From what do we get feedstocks?

What are the three main uses of

ethanol?

Put these stages in the correct order to sumarise a

chemical process.

Why do biocatalysts lower the energy

demand for a chemical process?

Why is a process which contains fewer separation

and purification processes greener?

What is the disadvantage of

closed loop recycling?

Extraction of iron and carbon by a blast

furnace cleaning system is a “sustainable change”. How?