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AN ADVANCED SYSTEM FOR POLLUTION PREVENTION IN CHEMICAL COMPLEXES
Impact/Purpose:
An Advanced System for Pollution Prevention will combine a new methodology
for optimal plant configuration, SYNPHONY, with the best methods for total cost
accounting (TCA), life cycle assessment (LCA) and sustainability metrics. The
results will be a new and comprehensive way to design new chemical complexes
and evaluate the performance of existing chemical complexes by local and corporate
engineering groups who will be required to perform evaluations for impacts associated
with green house gases and finite resources. Also, it will be used to help demonstrate
that plants are delivering environmental, social and business benefits which
will help ameliorate command and control regulations.
The Advanced System for Pollution Prevention will be developed in collaboration with engineering groups at IMC Agrico Monsanto Enviro Chem and Motiva (Star/Texaco) Enterprise and to ensure it meets the needs of the chemical and petroleum refining industries. The prototype of the program will be tested on several chemical complexes. One will be the manufacture of ammonium phosphate and urea in the IMC Agrico agricultural chemicals complex which includes five separate plants.
Description:
One important accomplishment is that the system will give process engineers interactively and simultaneously use of programs for total cost analysis, life cycle assessment and sustainability metrics to provide direction for the optimal chemical complex analysis program SYNPHONY. Process engineers will have one integrated system that shares information among four programs, and they will not have to learn how to use four separate programs and manually transfer data among them.