LAPSE:2024.1509
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LAPSE:2024.1509
Life Cycle and Sustainability Analyses for Designing Chemical Circular Economy
August 15, 2024. Originally submitted on July 9, 2024
Sustainability and circular economy enclose initiatives to achieve economic systems and industrial value chains by improving resource use, productivity, reuse, recycling, pollution prevention, and minimizing disposed material. However, shifting from the traditional linear economic production system to a circular economy is challenging. One of the most significant hurdles is the absence of sustainable end-of-life (EoL)/manufacturing loops for recycling and recovering material while minimizing negative impacts on human health and the environment. Overcoming these challenges is critical in returning materials to upstream life cycle stage facilities such as manufacturing. Chemical flow analysis (CFA), sustainability evaluation, and process systems engineering (PSE) can supply chemical products and processes performances from environmental, economic, material efficiency, energy footprint, and technology perspectives. These holistic evaluation techniques can improve productivity, source material reduction, reuse, recycling, and prevent and minimize releases and disposal rates. Therefore, this contribution offers a computational framework that covers CFA, sustainability assessment, and risk evaluation for quantifying the benefits and challenges of chemical circular economy routes versus conventional linear systems. Finally, this contribution shows promising techniques and challenges for employing CFA, sustainability evaluation, and PSE as multicriteria decision-making tools for designing a closed-loop chemical management infrastructure and transforming the US chemical industry sector from linear to circular.
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Perez D, Chea JD, Hernandez-Betancur JD, Ruiz-Mercado GJ. Life Cycle and Sustainability Analyses for Designing Chemical Circular Economy. (2024). LAPSE:2024.1509
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Perez D: Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, hosted by Office of Research & Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA
Chea JD: Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, hosted by Office of Research & Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA
Hernandez-Betancur JD: Faculty of Mines, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin 050041, Colombia and Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca 37008, Spain
Ruiz-Mercado GJ: Office of Research & Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH, 45268, USA and Chemical Engineering Graduate Program, Universidad del Atlántico, Puerto Colombia 080007, Colombia
Chea JD: Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, hosted by Office of Research & Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA
Hernandez-Betancur JD: Faculty of Mines, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin 050041, Colombia and Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca 37008, Spain
Ruiz-Mercado GJ: Office of Research & Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH, 45268, USA and Chemical Engineering Graduate Program, Universidad del Atlántico, Puerto Colombia 080007, Colombia
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Systems and Control Transactions
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3
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60
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66
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2024
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2024-07-10
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PII: 0060-0066-680044-SCT-3-2024, Publication Type: Journal Article
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