737 Sustainability Metrics at the Process and Product Level


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


Chair:
Larry Erickson
Kansas State University
Department of Chemical Engineering
Manhattan, KS
66506
Fax Number: 785-532-7372
Email: lerick@ksu.edu

Co-chairs:
Urmila M. Diwekar
President
Vishwamitra Research Institute
Clarendon Hills, IL
60012
Email: urmila@vri-custom.org

Hong Jin
Lead HES Engineer
Chevron
Houston, TX
Phone Number: 2816392662
Email: Hong.Jin@chevron.com


Papers:
Sustainability Metrics for Miscanthus in Building Materials
John R. Schlup, Kansas State University; Larry Erickson, Kansas State University
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Peracetic Acid Application in the Pulp and Paper Industry
Darlene Echeverria, North Carolina State University; Yuan Yao, North Carolina State University; Richard Venditti, North Carolina State University; Hasan Jameel, North Carolina State University
Evaluating Indicators and Life Cycle Inventories for Processes in Early Stages of Technical Readiness
Raymond L. Smith, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Eric C. D. Tan, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Estimating the Life Cycle Impact of Chemicals from Molecular, Thermodynamic and Charge Density Information Via Mixed-Integer Optimization Techniques
Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine; Raul Calvo-Serrano, Imperial College London; Maria Gonzalez-Miquel, University of Manchester
Abstract Submissions Closed
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