Session: Sustainability Metrics At the Process and Product Level (2012 Annual Meeting)

Description:

This session solicits research and presentations that attempt to measure and quantify environmental metrics pertaining to endeavors that have been implemented at the plant process and final product level. The performance of metrics use to minimize the facility's environmental footprint from operations to final product life cycle will also be evaluated.

Sponsor:

Sustainability

Co-Sponsor(s):

Topical B: 2nd Annual World Congress on Sustainable Engineering (TB), Environmental Division (09), Sustainable Engineering Forum (23)

Chair:

Larry Erickson
Kansas State University
Chemical Engineering
Manhattan, KS 66502
Fax Number: 785-532-7372
Email: lerick@ksu.edu

Co-Chair:

Urmila Diwekar
Vishwamitra Research Institute
Center for Uncertain Systems: Tools for Optimization and Management (CUSTOM)
368 56th Street
Clarendon Hills, IL 60514
Email: urmila@vri-custom.org

Papers:

790a

A Comparison of the Recoverability of Organic Solvent Mixtures in Waste Streams Using Process Simulation and Life Cycle Assessment Software
Eduardo J. Cavanagh, Rowan University; Mariano J. Savelski, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University

790b

Sustainability of Battery Electric Vehicles Propelled by Lithium Ion Batteries : A Life Cycle Perspective
Qiang Dai, University of Michigan; Christian M. Lastoskie, University of Michigan

790c

Decision Making for Sustainable Processes
Raymond L. Smith, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Gerardo J. Ruiz-Mercado, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Michael A. Gonzalez, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

790d

Cradle-to-Gate Life-Cycle Assessment of Ionic Liquids
Amirhossein Mehrkesh, University of Colorado Denver; Arunprakash T. Karunanithi, University of Colorado Denver

790e

Life Cycle Assessment of Thin-Film CdTe Photovoltaics
Yuan Yao, Northwestern University; Fengqi You, Northwestern University

790f

Accounting for Ecosystem Services in Life Cycle Assessment by Eco-LCA: Advances in Methodology and Software
Bhavik R. Bakshi, The Ohio State University; Erin F. Landers, The Ohio State University; Shweta Singh, The Ohio State University; Laura A. Merugula, The Ohio State University; Oleg Mishchenko, Ohio State University; Joseph Fiksel, The Ohio State University

790g

Assessing the Critical Role of Natural Capital in Microalgal Biofuel Production
George Zaimes, University of Pittsburgh; Vikas Khanna, University of Pittsburgh

790h

Multi-Objective Synthesis of Biofuels' Processes by a Novel Concept of Eco-Profit, Extended to Eco-Net Present Value
Lidija Čuček, University of Maribor, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Zdravko Kravanja, University of Maribor, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

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