Session: Sustainability Metrics At the Process and Product Level (2012 Annual Meeting)

790 Sustainability Metrics At the Process and Product Level

Friday, November 2, 2012: 8:30 AM

327 (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):

Topical B: 2nd Annual World Congress on Sustainable Engineering (TB), Environmental Division (09), Sustainable Engineering Forum (23)

Chair:

Larry Erickson
Email: lerick@ksu.edu

Co-Chair:

Urmila Diwekar
Email: urmila@vri-custom.org

8:30 AM

(790a) A Comparison of the Recoverability of Organic Solvent Mixtures in Waste Streams Using Process Simulation and Life Cycle Assessment Software
Eduardo J. Cavanagh, Mariano J. Savelski and C. Stewart Slater

8:48 AM

(790b) Sustainability of Battery Electric Vehicles Propelled by Lithium Ion Batteries : A Life Cycle Perspective
Qiang Dai and Christian M. Lastoskie