Scoring ofsolventsusedinanalyticallaboratoriesbytheirtoxicological and exposurehazards

Marek Tobiszewski; Jacek Namieśnik

doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2015.05.043

Scoring ofsolventsusedinanalyticallaboratoriesbytheirtoxicological and exposurehazards

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Green analyticalchemistry,althoughawellrecognisedconcept,stilllacksreliableenvironmentalimpact assessment procedures.Thisarticledescribesscoringofsolvents,frequentlyusedinanalyticallabora- tories, withCHEMS-1model.Themodelusestoxicologicalandexposuredatatocalculatehazardvalues relatedtotheutilisationofsolvents. The originalmodelwasmodified toincorporatehazardsrelatedtothevolatilityofchemicals.The scoring ofhazardvaluesshowedthatpolarsolventsarelesshazardous.Thescoringresultswereapplied to assessthetotalhazardvaluesintermsofsolventconsumption.Thehazardscorescalculatedforeach chemical weremultipliedbythevolumesofsolventusedduringtheanalyticalprocedure.Theresults show thatcalculationoftotalproceduralhazardvaluesisvaluableinthegreenanalyticalchemistry assessment procedure.Moreover,theassessmentprocedurecanbecombinedwithotherprocedural greenness assessmentmethods.

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Marek Tobiszewski dr hab. inż.
Jacek Namieśnik prof. dr hab. inż.

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
Published in:: ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY no. 120, pages 169 - 173,
ISSN: 0147-6513
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2015
Bibliographic description:: Tobiszewski M., Namieśnik J.: Scoring ofsolventsusedinanalyticallaboratoriesbytheirtoxicological and exposurehazards// ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY. -Vol. 120, (2015), s.169-173
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2015.05.043
Verified by:: Gdańsk University of Technology