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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- DOI
- Digital Object Identifier link open in new tab 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2015.05.043
- Category
- Publikacja w czasopiśmie
- Type
- artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
- Language
- angielski
- Publication year
- 2015
