Preliminary Program subject to change
TE008 Industrial Ecolgy, LCA, and Sustainability
OverviewEvaluating the sustainability of processes, products and their interactions through the economy presents challenges to practitioners of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Industrial Ecology (IE). These challenges arise from the normally large scale of these problems and the need for defining the meaning of “sustainable”. Papers of special interest in this session include, but are not limited to, those which make LCA and IE efficient. Those papers which provide quantitative metrics for sustainability in these analyses are especially welcome.
Primary SponsorTopical E - Sustainable Engineering. (TE)
Co-Sponsor(s)Sustainable Engineering Forum (23)

Chair

Raymond L. Smith
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
National Risk Management Research Laboratory
26 W. Martin Luther King Dr.
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Phone Number: (513)569-7161
Fax Number: (513)569-7111
Email: Smith.Raymond@epa.gov

CoChair

Helen H. Lou
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Lamar University
P.O.Box 10053
Beaumont, TX 77710
Phone Number: 409-880-8207
Fax Number: 409-880-2197
Email: louhh@hal.lamar.edu
Analyzing Shortcut Methods for Life Cycle Assessment Inventories
Raymond L. Smith, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, 26 W. Martin Luther King Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45268
Enhancing Life Cycle Inventories Via Reconciliation across Multiple Scales
Heui-Seok Yi and Bhavik R. Bakshi, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State Unversity, Columbus, OH 43210
Monte Carlo Coupled with Life Cycle Analysis to Portray the Environmental Impacts of Us Agriculture
Amy E. Landis1, Thomas L. Theis2 and Shelie A. Miller1, (1)IESP, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2121 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60612, (2)Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2121 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60612
Extended Input-Output Analysis for System Sustainability Assessment and Prediction
Qiang Xu, Department of Chemical Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX 77710 and Yinlun Huang, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Wayne State University, 5050 Anthony Wayne Drive, Detroit, MI 48202
Analysis of a Petrochemical and Chemical Industrial Zone for the Improvement of Sustainability
Helen H. Lou1, Rebecca A. Smith1, Aditi Singh1, Jack R. Hopper1, Ralph W. Pike2 and Carl L. Yaws1, (1)Department of Chemical Engineering, Lamar University, P.O.Box 10053, Beaumont, TX 77710, (2)Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, 110 Chemical Engineering Bldg., Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Input-Output Analysis of Sulfur Metabolism in Lubei Eco-Industrial Community
Dingjiang Chen, Yourun Li, Jingzhu Shen and Shanying Hu, Chemical Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Topical E - Sustainable Engineering