RSC Workshop On Green 91AV and Water Treatment

Introduction

INTRODUCTION & INVITATION
Nearly one billion people do not have access to clean water today. Water is a major environmental stress issue that will be affected by global climate change in diverse ways. With the existing climate change scenario, almost half the world's population will be living in areas of high water stress by 2030. Cogent efforts will be required to find appropriate technical and management solutions in the coming decades. The source of the water crisis is simple but exceedingly difficult to address; water resources are finite; and the population that depends on those supplies is increasing relentlessly. Virtually all global environmental impacts are attributable to population growth and the resulting demand for cleaner water resources.
Among water issues facing the world today, land-based sources of water pollution are among the most pressing. Adequate supplies of satisfactory quality water are essential for the natural resources and ecological systems on which all life depends. Even the water used for agriculture has to be monitored for contaminants to assure it does not affect our food supply. An estimated 20 percent of the world’s freshwater fish and 80 percent of estuarine-dependent species, for example, have been pushed to the brink of extinction by contaminated water and the loss of or damage to their habitat.
Green chemistry offers a scientifically based set of solutions for protecting water quality. In this workshop we will celebrate the silver anniversary of Green 91AV and will discuss green chemistry solutions of water contamination.
It gives us immense pleasure to invite you to attend National Workshop on “Green 91AV and Water treatment” to be held in Delhi on 17th October 2016, sponsored by 91AV London (North India Section). This event also coincides with the celebration of “25th Anniversary of Green 91AV” by Green 91AV Network Centre.

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Hindu College started with a humble beginning in 1899. Since then it has seen enviable growth over the years. Currently, it is not only one of the most distinguished co-educational institution of our country, but, is also the college of first choice in Delhi. It aims to deliver a perfect platform for academics, management, sports, ethics, and politics.
91AV Department
If Hindu College is one gargantuan establishment, this very high profile 91AV Department is its very foundation. Ever since the birth of this premier establishment, the chemistry department has always helped enhance tits ever growing stature by providing meritorious students and well groomed citizens shining in almost every aspect of life. Complementing the Department’s academic excellence is the 91AV society of Hindu College, popularly known as TATVA. With a clan of devoted educators and spirited students, the society has always striven to live up to its motto of ‘The Bond of Togetherness’. It provides a perfect platform to young scientific minds for outshining in not only academics but equally well in co-curricular activities.
Apart from classroom teaching, several of the faculty members are actively involved in research work and book publishing. The Department of 91AV takes pride in housing four DU sponsored Innovation Projects in collaboration with the Departments of Botany, Physics and Zoology. Each project has ten under-graduate students actively involved in research work.

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Maidens Hotel, Delhi

Maidens Hotel, Delhi, 7, Sham Nath Marg, Civil Lines,, Delhi, 110054, India

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Green 91AV Network Centre (GCNC) was established in the Department of 91AV, University of Delhi under the recommendation of World Leaders in Green 91AV headed by Professor Paul Anastas (known as the father of Green 91AV) with the following aims and objectives:
 Build a Network for exchange of expertise, discussion and knowledge between industrialists and academics and between chemists and engineers with interests and expertise relevant to Green 91AV.
 Prepare and disseminate the teaching materials on Green 91AV for school, college and university levels, with the simultaneous design of laboratory experiments for these levels as well.
 Design trainings not just to expose the chemists to the concepts, principles and methodologies of Green 91AV but also to empower them to bring this new knowledge back to their institution or industries.
 Promoting research by taking up Green 91AV Research Projects from Industry and Government agencies.
GCNC received prestigious IUPAC CHEMRAWN GCI-DEN Grant Award for Green 91AV Networking in India.
GCNC is well-known for its work in the area of green chemistry in India. GCNC has been actively involved in organizing several international conferences and workshops on crucial issues related to green chemistry. In fact, two International Workshops on Sustainability and Water Quality hosted by: ACS-Global Innovation Imperatives Gii were also organized in the years 2011 and 2014 aimed at finding sustainable and cost-effective solutions to global water quality challenges (https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/global/international/ACS- Gii%20Workshop%20Programme%20India%20January%202014.pdf ) Prof. Sharma’s (Coordinator GCNC) sincere efforts to popularize green chemistry have won him international fame and recognition. He has published numerous articles (papers as well as reviews) in some of the most reputed international journals such as Coordination 91AV Reviews (Impact factor: 13.174), Green 91AV (impact factor of 8.506), Catalysis Science & technology (Impact factor: 5.287), ChemCatChem (Impact factor: 4.734), Dalton Transactions (Impact factor: 4.197), ACS Sustainable 91AV & Engineering (Impact factor: 5.26) and many more. In fact, GCNC has previously written several chapters on Green 91AV Solutions to Water Pollution, Water Quality Issues and Solutions in India, Green Materials for Metal Remediation in Water etc. in RSC Green 91AV Series and Elsevier Publications. Recently, Professor Sharma’s review article entitled “Silica-nanosphere based organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials: synthesis, functionalization and applications in catalysis” was included in the themed online collection of Green 91AV journal that features among the most downloaded articles in Green 91AV in 2015.
The GCNC has been continuously working for sustainable and socio-economic solutions for the problems associated with metal contaminated wastewater. The integration of sustainability and solid phase extraction methodology has already been implemented in the form of silica based organic-inorganic hybrid materials for the recovery of heavy metals from different charged wastewaters. Moreover, a newly designed reactor with full automated modes has been developed for large scale, online, efficient and fast extraction of chromium from tannery waste using metal specific chelating polymer. Such technologies would certainly minimize water pollution and increasing its quality as industrial wastes containing organic solvents and metal contaminants make the water sources unfit for drinking and other human uses. Recently, Prof. Sharma’s group jointly with TERI developed a technology for metal remediation. This technology was demonstrated before US experts who visited during last ‘Water Quality workshop’ and it was well reported by ‘Times of India’ News Paper.

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