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Using GREENSCOPE for Sustainable Process Design: An Educational Opportunity
Citation:
Smith, R., G. Ruiz-Mercado, AND M. Gonzalez. Using GREENSCOPE for Sustainable Process Design: An Educational Opportunity. In Proceedings, Foundations of Computer Aided Process Design, Cle Elum, WA, July 13 - 17, 2014. ELSEVIER, AMSTERDAM, Holland, 741-746, (2014).
Impact/Purpose:
Describes how EPA's GREENSCOPE methodology and tool can be used in educational context to design more sustainable chemical processes.
Description:
Increasing sustainability can be approached through the education of those who design, construct, and operate facilities. As chemical engineers learn elements of process systems engineering, they can be introduced to sustainability concepts. The EPA’s GREENSCOPE methodology and tool, valuable in the evaluation and design of chemical processes, can be used to teach these concepts. This work describes example calculations of GREENSCOPE indicators for the oxidation of toluene and puts the indicators into context with best- and worst-case limits. The data available from the process is developed into understandable information which describes sustainability. Targets for more sustainable process designs are understood, and enhancements can be considered to improve designs, either for real-world processes or in an educational environment.
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SMITH_USINGGREENSCOPEFORSUSTAINABLEPROCESSDESIGNFOCAPD2014.PDF (PDF, NA pp, 105.989 KB, about PDF)www.focapd.org
