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Sustainability in the Context of Process Engineering
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Mukherjee, R., D. Sengupta, AND S. Sikdar. Sustainability in the Context of Process Engineering. CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 17(4):833-840, (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-015-0952-7
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This is a Perspective article reflecting on how sustainability can be integrated into process design/integration tool in multi-objective optimization
Description:
Chemical process engineering including with the aid of computers made rapid progress in designing processes that reliably performed, as designed, in the real world. Environmental concerns were imbedded either in the conceptual stages of chemistry or treated off-line as add-on treatment or control problems. Soon after the world-wide oil supply shortages, rising energy prices stimulated energy integration in chemical processes leading to substantial decrease in energy uses. Soon this idea of energy integration in processes was extended to material use intensity reduction. These were significant steps towards attainment of sustainability in process industry. With more emphasis being put on sustainability, however, the need was felt to incorporate environmental and societal impacts in computer-aided process engineering. Towards this end some progress has occurred with significant more challenges to overcome. A successful package will equip a process designer with the tools he needs for accounting for environmental impacts, for quantifying societal benefits, and for making decisions on the basis of overall sustainability characteristics of process alternatives.
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DOI: Sustainability in the Context of Process Engineering
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-015-0952-7