Development and Applications of Profitable Pollution Prevention Technologies

To achieve industrial sustainability, environmental, social, and economic factors need to be integrated to reduce resource consumption, while increasing health, equity, and quality of life for all stakeholders. Profitable pollution prevention (P3) technologies seek the simultaneous realization of waste reduction and production improvement. It can be realized through fundamental understanding of the process operation and waste generation mechanism. This paper will present the concept of P3 and an array of profitable pollution prevention technologies developed, including clean combustion technologies, recycle and reuse strategies for the petrochemical and electroplating technologies. Significant economic gain and environmental benefit were achieved.