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POLLUTION PREVENTION IN THE DESIGN OF CHEMICAL PROCESSES USING HIERARCHICAL DESIGN AND SIMULATION
Citation:
Smith*, R L., D M. Young*, AND H C. Cabezas*. POLLUTION PREVENTION IN THE DESIGN OF CHEMICAL PROCESSES USING HIERARCHICAL DESIGN AND SIMULATION. Presented at European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineeing, Kolding, Denmark, 05/2001.
Description:
The design of chemical processes is normally an interactive process of synthesis and analysis. When one also desires or needs to limit the amount of pollution generated by the process the difficulty of the task can increase substantially. In this work, we show how combining hierarchical design and simulation methods makes the design problem easier to manage. The key to the anlalysis of the pollution generated by the process is the calculation of potential environmental impacts using the Waste Reduction (WAR) algorithm (Young & Cabezas, 1999).