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USE OF COMPUTER-AIDED PROCESS ENGINEERING TOOL IN POLLUTION PREVENTION
Citation:
Barrett**, W M. AND P F. Harten*. USE OF COMPUTER-AIDED PROCESS ENGINEERING TOOL IN POLLUTION PREVENTION. 18th Int. Conf. on Solid Waste Technology & Mgmt, Philadelphia, PA, 03/23-26/2003.
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Computer-Aided Process Engineering has become established in industry as a design tool. With the establishment of the CAPE-OPEN software specifications for process simulation environments. CAPE-OPEN provides a set of "middleware" standards that enable software developers to access functions and from the simulator using standard functions and then determines the ecological risk with a process stream.
This paper will discuss the development of USEPA's Metal Finishing Pollution Prevention Tool (MFFPPT), a computer-aided pollution prevention software package for the metal finishing industry. The development of MFFPPT is the first step in the process of designing tools to allow users to evaluate processes to determine options that can be taken to reduce wastes generated by the process. Because MFFPPT is developed using standard middleware, tools developed for use within the MFFPPT environment can be readily used in other process simulation environment.