Session: Sustainability Metrics At the Process and Product Level (2011 Annual Meeting)

Monday, October 17, 2011: 12:30 PM

101 E (Minneapolis Convention Center)

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):

Forest and Plant Bioproducts Division (17), Sustainable Engineering Forum (23), Topical B: 1st Annual World Congress on Sustainable Engineering (TB), Environmental Division (09)

Chair:

Larry Erickson
Email: lerick@ksu.edu

Co-Chair:

Urmila D. Diwekar
Email: urmila@vri-custom.org

12:30 PM

(124a) GREENSCOPE: A Method for Modeling Chemical Process Sustainability
Raymond L. Smith, Gerardo J. Ruiz-Mercado and Michael A. Gonzalez

12:55 PM

(124b) Life Cycle Comparison of Lithium Ion Battery Manufacturing Methods
Qiang Dai and Christian M. Lastoskie

1:20 PM

(124c) Use of Life Cycle Assessment to Evaluate the Sustainable Manufacture of the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Pregabalin
Mariano J. Savelski, C. Stewart Slater, Peter J. Dunn, Donald J. Knoechel and Christine M. Visnic

1:45 PM

(124d) Sustainable Supply Chain Design by the P-Graph Framework
Istvan Heckl, Heriberto Cabezas, Ferenc Friedler and L. T. Fan

2:10 PM

(124e) Risk Assessment Tools Use Through Process/Product Life-Cycle: Start with Questions, Not Data !
Joao Machado, Tiago Robalo and Jose Menezes

2:35 PM

(124f) Sustainable Energy Bio-Sources, An Environmental Performance Approach: Life Cycle Assessment From WWTP to BESs
Gabriel Blejman, Roberta Pacciani, Sonia Guri and Lourdes F. Vega

See more of this Group/Topical: Environmental Division

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