@article{jimenez-gonzalez_2019, title={Life cycle considerations of solvents}, volume={18}, ISSN={["2452-2236"]}, DOI={10.1016/j.cogsc.2019.02.004}, abstractNote={The most sustainable solvent is the solvent that is not used. However, avoiding the use of solvents is oftentimes not possible, and efforts are needed to minimize their environmental footprint. This includes both minimizing the amount of solvent used and minimizing the impacts across the solvent's life cycle, which include raw material extraction and production, manufacturing, transportation, use, recycling, and final disposal. Evaluating solvents without using a life cycle approach would underestimate impacts, conceal trade-offs, and could result in regrettable substitution. This article discusses key aspects to be considered when evaluating and selecting solvents using a life cycle assessment approach.}, journal={CURRENT OPINION IN GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY}, author={Jimenez-Gonzalez, Concepcion}, year={2019}, month={Aug}, pages={66–71} }
 @article{constable_jimenez-gonzalez_matlin_2019, title={Navigating Complexity Using Systems Thinking in Chemistry, with Implications for Chemistry Education}, volume={96}, ISSN={["1938-1328"]}, DOI={10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00368}, abstractNote={To remain relevant, chemists need to be able to understand their work in terms of systems. Since systems thinking is a framework to understand and manage systems, the introduction of systems thinking in chemistry education would assist learners to navigate complex, inter-related concepts typical of systems. At the same time, the adoption of systems thinking in chemistry education will require a major reorientation in how chemistry is taught. We consider several characteristics of system complexity that are key to systems thinking in chemistry–including purpose, scale, boundaries, hierarchies, constraints, loop concepts and emergence–and discuss their introduction in education and the benefits this will bring.}, number={12}, journal={JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION}, author={Constable, David J. C. and Jimenez-Gonzalez, Concepcion and Matlin, Stephen A.}, year={2019}, month={Dec}, pages={2689–2699} }
 @article{lozano_lozano_freire_jimenez-gonzalez_sakao_gabriela ortiz_trianni_carpenter_viveros_2018, title={New perspectives for green and sustainable chemistry and engineering: Approaches from sustainable resource and energy use, management, and transformation}, volume={172}, ISSN={["1879-1786"]}, DOI={10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.10.145}, abstractNote={The special volume on green and sustainable chemistry and engineering has fourteen papers that were considered relevant to the present day issues and discussion, such as adequate use of raw materials and efficient energy, besides considering renewable sources for materials and energy; and changing economical canons towards circular economy. Businesses, governments and Society are facing a number of challenges to tread the sustainability path and provide wellbeing for future generations. This special volume relevance provides discussions and contributions to foster that desirable future. Chemicals are ubiquitous in everyday activities. Their widespread presence provides benefits to societies’ wellbeing, but can have some deleterious effects. To counteract such effect, green engineering and sustainable assessment in industrial processes have been gathering momentum in the last thirty years. Green chemistry, green engineering, eco-efficiency, and sustainability are becoming a necessity for assessing and managing products and processes in the chemical industry. This special volume presents fourteen articles related to sustainable resource and energy use (five articles), circular economy (one article), cleaner production and sustainable process assessment (five article), and innovation in chemical products (three articles). Green and sustainable chemistry, as well as sustainable chemical engineering and renewable energy sources are required to foster and consolidate a transition towards more sustainable societies. This special volume present current trends in chemistry and chemical engineering, such as sustainable resource and energy use, circular economy, cleaner production and sustainable process assessment, and innovation in chemical products. This special volume provides insights in this direction and complementing other efforts towards such transition.}, journal={JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION}, author={Lozano, Francisco J. and Lozano, Rodrigo and Freire, Paulo and Jimenez-Gonzalez, Concepcion and Sakao, Tomohiko and Gabriela Ortiz, Maria and Trianni, Andrea and Carpenter, Angela and Viveros, Tomas}, year={2018}, month={Jan}, pages={227–232} }
 @book{jimenez-gonzalez_constable_2011, title={Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Practical Design Approach}, ISBN={9780470170878}, publisher={Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley,}, author={Jimenez-Gonzalez, Concepcion and Constable, David}, year={2011} }
 @article{jimenez-gonzalez_woodley_2010, title={Bioprocesses: Modeling needs for process evaluation and sustainability assessment}, volume={34}, ISSN={["1873-4375"]}, DOI={10.1016/j.compchemeng.2010.03.010}, abstractNote={The next generation of process engineers will face a new set of challenges, with the need to devise new bioprocesses, with high selectivity for pharmaceutical manufacture, and for lower value chemicals manufacture based on renewable feedstocks. In this paper the current and predicted future roles of process system engineering and life cycle inventory and assessment in the design, development and improvement of sustainable bioprocesses are explored. The existing process systems engineering software tools will prove essential to assist this work. However, the existing tools will also require further development such that they can also be used to evaluate processes against sustainability metrics, as well as economics as an integral part of assessments. Finally, property models will also be required based on compounds not currently present in existing databases. It is clear that many new opportunities for process systems engineering will be forthcoming in the area of integrated bioprocesses.}, number={7}, journal={COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING}, author={Jimenez-Gonzalez, Concepcion and Woodley, John M.}, year={2010}, month={Jul}, pages={1009–1017} }
 @inbook{jimenez-gonzalez_hannah_ponder_hagan_2010, title={Designing a Sustainable Pharmaceutical Industry: the Role of Chemical Engineers}, ISBN={9780470426692}, DOI={10.1002/9780470882221.ch4}, booktitle={Chemical engineering in the pharmaceutical industry : R&D to manufacturing}, publisher={Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley}, author={Jimenez-Gonzalez, Concepcion and Hannah, Robert E. and Ponder, Celia S. and Hagan, James R.}, year={2010} }
 @article{kim_jimenez-gonzalez_dale_2009, title={Enzymes for pharmaceutical applications-a cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment}, volume={14}, ISSN={["1614-7502"]}, DOI={10.1007/s11367-009-0081-9}, number={5}, journal={INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT}, author={Kim, Seungdo and Jimenez-Gonzalez, Concepcion and Dale, Bruce E.}, year={2009}, month={Jul}, pages={392–400} }
 @article{gani_gomez_folic_jimenez-gonzalez_constable_2008, title={Solvents in organic synthesis: Replacement and multi-step reaction systems}, volume={32}, ISSN={["1873-4375"]}, DOI={10.1016/j.compchemeng.2008.01.006}, abstractNote={The solvent selection methodology developed earlier by Gani et al. [Gani, R., Jiménez-González, C., & Constable, D. J. C. (2005). Method for selection of solvents for promotion of organic reactions. Computers and Chemical Engineering, 29, 1661–1676] has been extended to handle multi-step reaction systems as well as solvent substitution for specific reaction steps for existing processing systems. The problems were formulated based on the methodology guidelines, and solved using ICAS software tool [ICAS Documentation. (2003). Internal report. CAPEC, Department of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark]. Highly promising results were obtained, either in accordance with results previously published in the literature, or with industrial process data. This shows that the methodology has potential for application to complex reaction schemes as well as on the problems of solvent replacement.}, number={10}, journal={COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING}, author={Gani, Rafiqul and Gomez, Paola Arenas and Folic, Milica and Jimenez-Gonzalez, Concepcion and Constable, David J. C.}, year={2008}, month={Oct}, pages={2420–2444} }
 @article{jimenez-gonzalez_curzons_constable_overcash_cunningham_2001, title={How do you select the `greenest? technology? Development of guidance for the pharmaceutical industry}, volume={3}, DOI={10.1007/pl00011310}, number={2001}, journal={Clean Products and Processes}, author={Jimenez-Gonzalez, C. and Curzons, A. and Constable, D. and Overcash, M. and Cunningham, V.}, year={2001}, pages={35–41} }
 @article{jimenez-gonzalez_overcash_curzons_2001, title={Waste treatment modules - a partial life cycle inventory}, volume={76}, ISSN={["0268-2575"]}, DOI={10.1002/jctb.426}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={7}, journal={JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY}, author={Jimenez-Gonzalez, C and Overcash, MR and Curzons, A}, year={2001}, month={Jul}, pages={707–716} }
 @article{jimenez-gonzalez_overcash_2000, title={Energy optimization during early drug development and the relationship with environmental burdens}, volume={75}, ISSN={["0268-2575"]}, DOI={10.1002/1097-4660(200011)75:11<983::AID-JCTB307>3.0.CO;2-E}, abstractNote={Process development in the pharmaceutical industry is oriented to several key objectives, like yield or purity; and energy usage is normally given only a secondary consideration. On the other hand, there is a growing interest to give a greater weight to environmental factors as an integral part of the decision-making process at the Research and Development (R&D) stages of design for drug manufacturing. Therefore, there is a need to assess the energy usage throughout the development stage, to be able to quantify the changes in the development phases and evaluate the total environmental benefits due to energy optimization. In the present work, energy life cycle information is developed to provide environmental input into process selection and development within the pharmaceutical industry. The evaluation and comparison of energy requirements and energy-related emissions at various stages of the development process for a pharmaceutical product was conducted. It was found that the main optimization in energy usage for this specific system takes place during the pilot scale stage in the process developments (about 70% energy reduction). The reductions in energy usage are translated in even higher reduction of total energy-related emissions (for the full-scale processes, around 80%). It could be clearly seen that energy optimization in the early stages of process design translates into a lower level of emissions related to the use of energy.}, number={11}, journal={JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY}, author={Jimenez-Gonzalez, C and Overcash, MR}, year={2000}, month={Nov}, pages={983–990} }
 @article{jimenez-gonzalez_overcash_2000, title={Energy sub-modules applied in life cycle inventory of processes}, volume={2}, DOI={10.1007/s100980050051}, number={2000}, journal={Clean Products and Processes}, author={Jimenez-Gonzalez, C. and Overcash, M.}, year={2000}, pages={57–66} }
 @article{jimenez-gonzalez_overcash_2000, title={Life cycle inventory of refinery products: Review and comparison of commercially available databases}, volume={34}, ISSN={["0013-936X"]}, DOI={10.1021/es991140f}, abstractNote={Refinery products serve as the source for a significant portion of energy use and industrial chemicals. Assessing the variability and reliability of the life cycle inventory (LCI) data for the refinery process is an important issue for the acceptance of life cycle studies. The purpose of this research is to review and compare the LCI results for refinery products among several available databases, evaluating the level of variability and technical consistency among data sets. Another objective is to highlight the need for greater transparency and standardization in LCI databases. We found important links between the type or media of emissions and the unit processes found in typical refineries. The variability of estimated emissions to the atmosphere is approximately 50−150%, while variability in aqueous discharges is higher, approaching 1000%. Variability for solid emissions is on the order of 30%. This variability is believed to be related to the preparation and summary use of individual practitioner data...}, number={22}, journal={ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY}, author={Jimenez-Gonzalez, C and Overcash, M}, year={2000}, month={Nov}, pages={4789–4796} }
 @article{jimenez-gonzalez_kim_overcash_2000, title={Methodology of developing gate-to-gate life cycle analysis information}, volume={5}, DOI={10.1007/bf02978615}, number={3}, journal={International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment}, author={Jimenez-Gonzalez, C. and Kim, S. and Overcash, M.}, year={2000}, pages={153–159} }