This preliminary program is subject to change.

Environmental Health & Safety and Sustainability


Description:
The session will deal with definations and criteria for engineering and designs relative to environmental Health & Safety issues for sustainability assessment and rating of process plants.

Sponsor:
General
Co-Sponsor(s):
Sustainability (09g), Topical B: 2nd Annual World Congress on Sustainable Engineering (TB)


Chair:
Jeffrey Seay
University of Kentucky
Chemical and Materials Engineering
Lexington, KY 40508
Email: jseay@engr.uky.edu

Co-Chair:
Richard Siegel
Environmental Consultant
R&B Consulting Services
21 Cummings Park
Woburn, MA 01801
Fax Number: 781-788-9783
Email: Richardddsi@aol.com


Papers:
“Green” Solvents: Multi-Criteria Knowledge-Based and Statistical Approaches for Their Evaluation
Stavros Papadokonstantakis, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ); Tianhe Liu, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ); Alireza Banimostafa, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ); Konrad Hungerbühler, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ)
Resilience in Complex Economic Networks: Insights From Graph Theory and Input-Output Models
Shauhrat Chopra, University of Pittsburgh; Vikas Khanna, University of Pittsburgh
Role of Controllability for LONG TERM Sustainability
Pahola T. Benavides, VRI- Custom; Urmila Diwekar, Vishwamitra Research Institute, Center for Uncertain Systems: Tools for Optimization and Management; Heriberto Cabezas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Life-Cycle-Based Sustainability Assessment of Nanocoating Material
Rohan Uttarwar, Wayne State University; Yinlun Huang, Wayne State University
The Effect of CO2 Adsorbent to the H2 Production in Biomass Gassifier
KuZilati KuShaari, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
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