(209d) The Sustainable Synthesis-Design-Intensification of Chemical and Biochemical Processes
AIChE Annual Meeting
2017
2017 Annual Meeting
Sustainable Engineering Forum
Area Plenary: Sustainability and the RAPID (Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment) Manufacturing Institute (Invited Talks)
Monday, October 30, 2017 - 4:30pm to 4:55pm
The presentation will highlight the issues related to defining the measures of sustainability through which new alternatives can be evaluated. Here, emphasis is given to the concept of sustainability, which is relative and therefore, a reference case first needs to be established. That is, compared to the base case, how sustainable are the new and innovative chemical and biochemical process designs?
A systematic multi-stage and multi-dimension computer aided framework which provides the necessary work-flow, the corresponding data-flow, the associated methods and the needed computational tools will be presented.
Through case studies involving chemical and biochemical processes, the application of the framework and the associated methods-tools to determine more sustainable solutions will be illustrated. It will be shown that significant improvements and non-tradeoff sustainable can be obtained through this integrated approach of combining process intensification as an essential element of process synthesis-design.