Geert Van der Vorst

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed analysis of a lithium mixed metal oxide battery recycling scenario, where cobalt and nickel are recovered and re-introduced into the battery production chain, is compared with a virgin production scenario.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared and evaluated prepressive supercritical fluid chromatography and prepressive high performance liquid chromatography (prep-HPLC) for enantiomeric separation using exergetic life cycle analysis within enlarging system boundaries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified the environmental sustainability of batch versus continuous granulation based tablet manufacturing from a resource point of view by conducting Exergy Analysis (EA) and Exergetic Life Cycle Analysis (ELCA) at three different levels in order to identify and locate resource losses throughout the pharmaceutical supply chain.

TL;DR: The amount of organic solvents used, molar efficiency, and duration of a synthesis step were shown to be the most significant predictor variables and including additional predictor variables did not contribute to the predictive power and eventually weakens the model interpretation.

TL;DR: In this article, an exergetic life cycle assessment is used on a real case from the pharmaceutical industry (three generations of Galantamine·HBr synthesis) to illustrate the importance of the continuous search for improved chemical processes and technologies and of using measuring methods in order to support, quantitatively, the decision making towards new, greener and more sustainable processes and technology.