Session: Sustainable Value Chain (2009 Annual Meeting)

Description:

This session considers sustainable supply chain associated with the man-made products and processes. The interaction of the roles of feedstock development and procurement, manufacture, associated transportation and retail issues will be reviewed in terms of environmental, societal, and economic impacts.

Sponsor:

General

Co-Sponsor(s):

Sustainable Engineering Forum (23)

Chair:

Cristina Piluso
Sustainability Specialist
BASF Corporation
100 Campus Drive
Florham Park, NJ 07932
Phone Number: 973-245-7080
Email: cristina.piluso@basf.com

Co-Chair:

Xiang Li

Papers:

677a

Measuring Renewability: A Mass Efficiency or E Factor Approach?
Alan Curzons, GSK - retired; Richard Henderson, GlaxoSmithKline; Concepcion Jimenez-Gonzalez, GlaxoSmithKline; Celia S. Ponder, GlaxoSmithKline

677b

Cellulosic Ethanol Production: Improving Viability through Enterprise-Wide Modeling and Optimization
Paritosh K. Sharma, Louisiana State University; Omar Galan, Louisiana State University; Jose Romagnoli, Louisiana State University

677c

Accounting for Ecosystem Services in Ecologically Based Life Cycle Assessment (Eco-LCA) by Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Information
Shweta Singh, The Ohio State University; Bhavik R. Bakshi, Ohio State University

677d

Thermal Conversion of Carboxylate Salts (Biomass-to-Mixed Alcohols)
Mohit Bhatia, University of Maine; Keith D. Hurley, University of Maine; G. Peter van Walsum, University of Maine; M. Clayton Wheeler, University of Maine

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