Hydrogen Peroxide: A Key Chemical for Today's Sustainable Development.
The global utilization of hydrogen peroxide, a green oxidant that decomposes in water and oxygen, has gone from 0.5 million tonnes per year three decades ago to 4.5 million tonnes per year in 2014, and is still climbing. With the aim of expanding the utilization of this eminent green chemical across different industrial and civil sectors, the production and use of hydrogen peroxide as a green industrial oxidant is reviewed herein to provide an overview of the explosive growth of its industrial use over the last three decades and of the state of the art in its industrial manufacture, with important details of what determines the viability of the direct production from oxygen and hydrogen compared with the traditional auto-oxidation process.
Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati, CNR, via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90146, Palermo, PA, Italy.
Rosaria
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6596-1572
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Ciriminna
Istituto di Biometeorologia, CNR, via Caproni 8, 50145, Firenze, FI, Italy.
Lorenzo
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4549-8514
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Albanese
Istituto di Biometeorologia, CNR, via Caproni 8, 50145, Firenze, FI, Italy.
Francesco
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5952-9166
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Meneguzzo
Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati, CNR, via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90146, Palermo, PA, Italy.
Mario
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5096-329X
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Pagliaro
D055772:Green Chemistry Technology / Q000379:methods*; D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*; D007221:Industry
D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide
green chemistry; hydrogen peroxide; oxidation; process chemistry; water chemistry