Session: Sustainability Metrics at the Process and Product Level (2014 Annual Meeting)

409 Sustainability Metrics at the Process and Product Level

Tuesday, November 18, 2014: 3:15 PM

M303 (Marriott Marquis Atlanta)

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

3:15 PM

(409a) Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis in Sustainable Process Design – Environmental Indicators
Carina Gargalo and Gürkan Sin

3:40 PM

(409b) A Techno-Economic, Life-Cycle Modeling Framework for Emerging Technology Assessments in the U.S. Chemical Industry
Yuan Yao, Diane J. Graziano, Mathew Riddle and Eric Masanet

4:05 PM

(409c) Rare Earth Oxide Production: Quantification of Life Cycle Environmental Impacts
George G. Zaimes, Vikas Khanna and Berlyn Hubler

4:30 PM

(409d) Life Cycle Analysis of Oil Shale Production Using Greet
Ghana Paudel, Daniel Steiner and Joseph D. Smith