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Chemical Process Development for Sustainability
Citation:
Ruiz-Mercado, Gerardo J. Chemical Process Development for Sustainability. Invited Guest Lecture at the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering - West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, March 19 - 20, 2024.
Impact/Purpose:
Dr. Gerardo J. Ruiz-Mercado received an invitation to be a keynote speaker at the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, West Virginia University. This event will be held on March 19, 2024. This invited seminar will cover sustainable chemical process development, life cycle inventory (LCI), and assessment (LCA), chemical end-of-life stages, and circular life cycles. Also, this presentation describes current approaches for the manufacturing of chemicals by designing processes that minimize environmental releases and occupational exposure as needed for CSS402.4 Inform life cycle risk assessments for new and existing chemicals project.
Description:
This invited keynote presentation provides compressive definitions regarding sustainable development, sustainability assessment and design, life cycle analysis, and their application in manufacturing more environmentally friendly chemicals with less occupational exposure. Similarly, this presentation explains the concepts of life cycle assessment (LCA), life cycle inventory (LCI), sustainability, bottom-up approaches for estimating LCIs, and estimating releases for chemicals. Also, this lecture will describe a strategic implementation of quantitative evaluation criteria that can inform the environmental performance of a particular chemical manufacturing system by employing the GREENSCOPE tool and a corresponding case study application. Finally, this talk will describe a data engineering framework to perform chemical flow analysis and support the design and development of a sustainable circular life cycle of chemicals.