Thursday, 26 April 2007: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Room 329 (Hilton Americas-Houston)

Manufacturing (12d)

#123 - Sustainable Optimization and Troubleshooting of Chemical Processes (12D04)
This session seeks best practices and examples of sustainability in manufacturing and troubleshooting/optimization of existing or new plant operations. Included are programs and approaches for considering sustainability in selection of process options, along with specific examples of process improvements, additions, or modifications and optimization opportunities that led to reduction in footprint or other sustainability enhancements.
Chair:Sue Degaleesan
CoChair:Benson Pair
CoSponsor(s):Sustainable Engineering Forum (23)
8:30 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:35 AMOptimal Operation of Azeotropic Distillation Columns
Salvador Aldrett
9:00 AMStudy of Treating Ammonium-Nitrogen Wastewater
Qian Wang, Jian Zhou, LuFeng Lv, Zhanzhu Zhang
9:25 AMRedesign of Commercial Process Ion Exchange Purification to Eliminate Hazardous Byproduct Formation
Joseph B. Powell
9:50 AMFeed Contamination: We Have Met the Enemy --- It Are Us
Jason V. VanRoeyen, Hilario Garza, Jonathan H. Worstell
10:15 AMAnalyzing Ruptured Pipe Failures
Michael Morimoto, Shawna S. Berg, David A. Hampton, Jonathan H. Worstell
10:40 AMConcluding Remarks

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