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The Centre for Green Process Engineering (CGPE) opens with launch event at London South Bank University (LSBU)

The Department of Applied Sciences in the Faculty of Engineering, Science and the Built Environment (FESBE) has recently launched a new Centre for Green Process Engineering (CGPE) under the direction of Professor Basu Saha. Its inception is based on the growing concern for the environment, increasingly stringent standards for the release of chemicals into the environment, and economic competitiveness. These all focus the need for extensive efforts to improve chemical synthesis and manufacturing methods, as well as the development of new synthetic methodologies that minimize or completely eliminate pollutants. As a consequence, more and more attention has been focused on the use of safer chemicals, through the proper design of clean processes and products. This approach is largely referred to as ‘ green chemistry ’ . The principles of green chemistry can be applied to all areas of chemistry, including synthesis, catalysis, reaction conditions, separations, analysis and monitoring. Furthermore, the use of catalysis often plays a central role in the development of environmentally benign and clean chemical processes. Efficient, selective organic reactions, that are otherwise unfeasible, can be carried out under milder reaction conditions in the presence of proper catalysts, thus avoiding the use of hazardous reagents and drastically reducing the outflow of potentially polluting by-products. Ideally, chemical reactions would have attributes such as simplicity, safety, high yield and selectivity, energy efficiency, use of renewable and recyclable reagents and raw materials. In general, chemical reactions cannot achieve all of these goals simultaneously and it is the task of chemists and chemical and process engineers, to identify pathways that optimize the balance of desirable attributes. To this end, the centre will be, by definition, interdisciplinary, bringing together complementary activities from across the faculty. It is hoped that the centre will provide a platform for chemical and process engineers and chemists from industry and academia, working in fine or specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals or similar industries.