Progress of cleaner production technologies in chemical industry in China

This review analyzed the research overview of cleaner production in the chemical industry in China.Most research on cleaner production focused on circular economics,ecologic industrial parks,energy-saving and emission-reduction,green chemistry and industry chains,evaluation and audit of cleaner production.This paper also summarized the cleaner production technologies,including process simulation,process integration,new processes,new raw materials,cleaner reaction systems,new energy resources and catalytic technologies.The development trend of cleaner production would be the organic combination of chemical production and other technologies,such as information,computer development,detection,intelligent information processing,and equipment manufacturing technologies.The cleaner production technologies should be evaluated by life cycle assessment(LCA) and the circular economics should be developed on the basis of cleaner production.