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COMPUTER-AIDED SOLVENT DESIGN FOR POLLUTION PREVENTION: PARIS II
Citation:
Zhao**, R, H C. Cabezas*, AND S. R. Nishtala. COMPUTER-AIDED SOLVENT DESIGN FOR POLLUTION PREVENTION: PARIS II. Article for 1999 Chemical Engineering Expo, Houston, TX, June 1999.
Description:
Solvent substitution is an attractive way of elijminating the use of regulated solvents because it usually does not require major chanages in existing processes, equipment or operations. Successful solvent substitution is dependent on finding solvents that are as effective or better than the currently=used solvents but are different in some aspects such as toxicity. To help solvent users greatly reduce the expense snd time required to find successful substitutes, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency developed a unique window-based computer application called PARIS II (Program for Assisting the Replacement of Industrial Solvents, Version II). This paper briefly introduces some ideas, characteristics and methods used in PARI II. This paper also gives an example of a solvent substitution formlation that was obtained by using PARIS II.