Department of Chemistry
Research
Design for Reuse / Degradation / Recovery
Led by Professor Helen Sneddon (Director) and Professor Antoine Buchard (Deputy Director), the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence (GCCE) has a long-established reputation for working closely with industry and fostering interdisciplinary research through close collaboration with biology, environment and geography, chemical engineering and other disciplines. Our Industrial Engagement Facility (IEF) includes a hot desk area, laboratory space and access to specialist instrumentation dedicated to visiting industrial partners geared to their specific applied research interests. In addition, an industrial engagement space, a large multi-function, seminar/lecture room and meeting room facilitating one-to-one discussions, small seminars as well as larger events.
The research areas of the GCCE cover a broad spectrum of subjects and involve both fundamental and applied research. We concentrate on developing new applications and providing practical solutions for existing industrial processes. This frequently involves improvement of the processes in terms of their environmental performance and efficiency through the application of renewable feedstocks, green synthetic methods, sustainable technologies and consideration of the end of life of a product be that through designing for re-use, recovery or degradation.
The group works at the frontiers of green chemistry research in the following areas:
Renewable Feedstocks
Renewable Feedstocks
- Utilising biomass and carbon dioxide as alternative (and sustainable) carbon sources for the chemicals industry.
- We combine these sustainable feedstocks with catalytic transformations using processes that require little or no energy input to develop sustainable alternatives for the production of important chemicals.