ChemSusChem· 2016Q1· Review
Hydrogen Peroxide: A Key Chemical for Today's Sustainable Development
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Global utilization of hydrogen peroxide, a green oxidant, has surged from 0.5 million tonnes annually 30 years ago to 4.5 million tonnes in 2014, with continued growth expected.
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Key points
- Global hydrogen peroxide consumption grew from 0.5 to 4.5 million tonnes/year over 30 years.
- Hydrogen peroxide is a 'green oxidant' decomposing into water and oxygen.
- The paper reviews production methods, comparing direct synthesis with auto-oxidation.
- Its utilization is expanding across industrial and civil sectors.
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Abstract
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.
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