Session: Sustainable Value Chain (2009 Annual Meeting)

Friday, November 13, 2009: 8:30 AM

Hermitage D (Gaylord Opryland Hotel)

Description:

This session considers sustainable supply chain associated with the man-made products and processes. The interaction of the roles of feedstock development and procurement, manufacture, associated transportation and retail issues will be reviewed in terms of environmental, societal, and economic impacts.

Sponsor:

General

Co-Sponsor(s):

Sustainable Engineering Forum (23)

Chair:

Cristina Piluso
Email: cristina.piluso@basf.com

Co-Chair:

Xiang Li
Email: xli@my.lamar.edu

8:30 AM

(677a) Measuring Renewability: A Mass Efficiency or E Factor Approach?
Alan Curzons, Richard Henderson, Concepcion Jimenez-Gonzalez and Celia S. Ponder

8:55 AM

(677b) Cellulosic Ethanol Production: Improving Viability through Enterprise-Wide Modeling and Optimization
Paritosh K. Sharma, Omar Galan and Jose Romagnoli

9:20 AM

(677c) Accounting for Ecosystem Services in Ecologically Based Life Cycle Assessment (Eco-LCA) by Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Information
Shweta Singh and Bhavik R. Bakshi

9:45 AM

(677d) Thermal Conversion of Carboxylate Salts (Biomass-to-Mixed Alcohols)
Mohit Bhatia, Keith D. Hurley, G. Peter van Walsum and M. Clayton Wheeler

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