Green FeMoCat

FeMoCat is a great advocate for Green Chemistry, where we do everything to help reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of our catalysts, for Formaldehyde, Phthalic Anhydride and Maleic Anhydride. This helps in dealing with the ever growing increase to protect the environment and the concept of sustainability.

A lot of emphasis is based on the research and development phase of each catalyst to curtail issues affecting human health and environmental pollution. For every chemical or given product, the following guidelines should govern the choice of route:

Choice of feed-stock (costs are relevant of course, but also total resources, energy, waste, etc. in the manufacture of the given feed-stock are important factors)
Recycling of old catalysts. We regenerate new catalysts by reusing old. We buy back Your used/spent catalysts also.
Choice of reaction path (minimise energy requirements by use of selective catalysts)
Choice of catalyst (efficiency, separation from product, recycling of catalyst)
Down-stream processing/unit operations (minimising the number of stages necessary to obtain the product in the state desired by the customer)
Minimizing not only the amount pollutants, but also the volume of waste streams (effluent/ off-gases and solid waste)
Recycling of auxiliary, side-, and intermediate products into the process.

This report focuses on physical and chemical properties of formaldehyde (CH2O), its production processes and evolution through time as it tries to conform to some of the principles of green chemistry.