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DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF COMPUTER-AIDED PROCESS ENGINEERING TOOLS FOR POLLUTION PREVENTION
Citation:
Barrett**, W M. AND P F. Harten*. DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF COMPUTER-AIDED PROCESS ENGINEERING TOOLS FOR POLLUTION PREVENTION. Presented at AIChE Spring Mtg Green Engineering Topical Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 30 - April 02, 2003.
Impact/Purpose:
To inform the public
Description:
The use of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) and process simulation tools has become established industry practice to predict simulation software, new opportunities are available for the creation of a wide range of ancillary tools that can be used from within multiple simulation environments. Middleware standards provide uniform methods for computer programs to interact, allowing software developers to create tools that can be easily used to determine environmentally-significant information about the stream such as the ecological risk associated with discharging the stream to the environment. This functionality would allow process designers the ability to identify process alternatives that can reduce the process's environmental impacts at design time.
This paper will discuss the development of the USEPA's Metal Finishing Facility Pollution Prevention Tool (MFFP2T), a computer-aided pollution prevention software package for the metal finishing industry. MFFP2T will be built using the CAPE-OPEN middleware standards. The development of MFFP2T is the first step in the process of designing tools that allow users to evaluate processes and determine options that can be taken to reduce wastes generated by the process. Because MFFP2T is developed using the DAPE-OPEN middleware, tools developed for use within the MFFP2T environment can be readily used in other process simulation environments, leveraging the benefit of this tool into the broad chemical process industry.