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New Design for Advanced Zero Emission Power Plant Concept

Oct 18, 2011
Wei Chen
The most significant anthropogenic greenhouse gas is CO 2 , which arises mainly from the use of fossil fuels. A new technology called Advanced Zero Emission Power Plant (AZEP) targeting CO 2 capture and storage (CCS) is being developed. In the AZEP concept, CO 2 -diluted O 2 is used to combust the...

Pennycress-Derived Jet Fuel and Diesel LCA: Sustainable Advanced Biofuels

Oct 17, 2011
Jiqing Fan
Pennycress-derived jet fuel and diesel show promise as emerging biofuels that can help reduce dependence on petroleum imports, lower the trade deficit, and most importantly, lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Pennycress is a prolific seed producer with yields of more than 2000 pounds of per acre...

Sustainability Evaluation of LNG Processing Technologies

Oct 17, 2011
Preeti Gangadharan
Growing demand for clean fuels has led to a renewed urgency in the search for alternative fuels. With the recent shale gas development initiatives, natural gas is poised to capture a much larger share of the energy market. Being clean-burning, natural gas provides many environmental advantages over...

Resilience and Sustainable Development

SEF Webinar
Sep 21, 2011
Dr. Joseph Fiksel

This webinar discusses the challenges of sustainable development, and gives examples of current research on life cycle assessment, industrial ecology, and supply chain resilience.

Real Time CO2 and Energy Cost Reductions: Field Experiences In Petrochemical Plants

Mar 14, 2011
Oscar Santollani
Over a period of more than 10 years of deploying industrial projects related to energy systems real time optimization and cost reduction in processing industries around the world, the following issues have been found time and time again: • Many applications of energy cost reduction technologies are...

Credentials for Sustainability Professionals

SEF Webinar
Dec 8, 2010
Deborah Grubbe

In order to effect more positive and faster advancements in the sustainability arena, the speaker suggests that the sustainability community must address two fundamental components.

The Road to Sustainability

June
2007
Special Section
Darlene Schuster
What are some of the resources available to support industry's implementation of sustainability?

Benchmarking Sustainability

June
2007
Special Section
Calvin Cobb, Darlene Schuster, Beth Beloff and Dicksen Tanzil , Darlene Schuster
Unlike other sustainability indices, the AIChE Sustainability Index (SI) accounts for key factors that are fundamental to the chemical process industries.

The AIChE Sustainability Index: The Factors in Detail

January
2009
Special Section
Calvin Cobb, Darlene Schuster, Beth Beloff and Dicksen Tanzil , Darlene Schuster
The AIChE Sustainability Index provides practical benchmarks along a number of well-defined metrics.

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