387 Sustainability Metrics at the Process and Product Level

Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 3:15 PM
Union Square 21 (Hilton)
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):
3rd Annual World Congress on Sustainable Engineering (TB), Innovations of Green Process Engineering for Sustainable Energy and Environment (TG), Sustainable Engineering Forum (23)

Chair:
Larry Erickson
Email: lerick@ksu.edu

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

- indicates paper has an Extended Abstract file available on CD.

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3:15 PM
(387a) Findings On Life Cycle Aquatic Ecotoxicity Impacts of Ionic Liquids
Amirhossein Mehrkesh and Arunprakash T. Karunanithi

3:34 PM
(387b) Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Vaccine Cold Chain Infrastructure in Developing Countries
Bahador Mousavi and Arunprakash T. Karunanithi

3:53 PM
(387c) Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment Model of Silicon Photovoltaics
Yuan Yao, Yuan Chang and Eric Masanet

4:12 PM
(387d) Root-Cause Analysis in the Design of Chemical Processes
Preeti Gangadharan, Liwen Chen and Helen H. Lou

4:31 PM
(387e) Development of Product-Based Energy Intensity Metrics for the California Food Industry
Michael E. Walker, Margot Hutchins, Dave Lettieri, Vince Romanin, Paul Blinde and Eric Masanet
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4:50 PM
(387f) Estimations of Direct and Indirect Emissions From Mobile Air Conditioner Units in Automobile Transportation: The Cool Mile Functional Unit
Paul Blowers, Ibrahim Alayedi, Austin Dougless, Brian Gerwe, Adam Mesta, Caleb Rugel and Yi Yang Wang

5:09 PM
(387g) Regional Air Quality Improvement By Scheduling of Multiple Chemical Plant Start-Ups
Tianxing Cai and Qiang Xu
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