LAPSE:2024.1623
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LAPSE:2024.1623
Sustainable Process Systems Engineering - You're Doing It Wrong!
August 16, 2024. Originally submitted on July 9, 2024
Most studies in process systems engineering are applying incomplete methods when incorporating sustainability. Including sustainability is a laudable goal, and practitioners are encouraged to develop systems that promote economic, environmental, and social aspects. Ten methods that are often overlooked in performing sustainable process systems engineering are listed in this effort and discussed in detail. Practitioners are encouraged to create designs that are inherently safer, to be more complete in their identification of process chemicals used and released, to be complete in their definitions of supply chains, and to apply additional environmental impact categories. Other methods point to items that are factors in process systems engineering such as disruptive recycling, robust superstructures for optimizations, and employing complete sets of objectives. Finally, users should be aware that sustainability tools are available, which might have been outside of their awareness.
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Environment, Life Cycle Analysis, Optimization, Process Design, Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Supply Chain
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Smith RL. Sustainable Process Systems Engineering - You're Doing It Wrong!. Systems and Control Transactions 3:899-903 (2024) https://doi.org/10.69997/sct.169081
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Smith RL: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response, 26 W. Martin Luther King Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45268 USA
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Systems and Control Transactions
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3
First Page
899
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903
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2024
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2024-07-10
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PII: 0899-0903-676476-SCT-3-2024, Publication Type: Journal Article
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