Achieving Technical Sustainability
2009 January Subhas Sikdar ...
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Sustainability Innovation in the Consumer Products Industry
2009 January Len Sauers Shekhar Mitra Sustainability is both a responsibility and an opportunity, and innovation can be the key to success. ... -
Government Perspectives on Sustainability
2009 January Alan Hecht Advances in science and technology, the application of diverse government regulations and policies, and green business practices are all needed to advance sustainabilty. Biofuels production is a good case study to illustrate how go ... -
Incorporating Sustainability into Chemical Engineering Education
2009 January David T. Allen Cynthia F. Murphy Braden R. Allenby Cliff I. Davidson This benchmarking study of the types of courses offered and the material being taught sheds light on what the engineering profession regards as sustainability. ... -
A Personal Perspective on Sustainability Through Energy Efficiency
2009 January Robert W. Sylvester These relatively simple lifestyle changes enabled one individual to reduce energy costs by $2,000/yr and his carbon footprint by one-third. ... -
The AIChE Sustainability Index: The Factors in Detail
2009 January Darlene Schuster Calvin Cobb, Darlene Schuster, Beth Beloff and Dicksen Tanzil The AIChE Sustainability Index provides practical benchmarks along a number of well-defined metrics. ... -
Apply Process Integration to Environmental Impact Assessment
2009 February Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi Eva M. Lovelady Ahmed Abdel-Wahab Patrick Linke Hassan E. Alfadala This approach provides valuable insights early in the design process and systematizes the design effort, while reconciling process objectives with envir ... -
Improve Your Air Emissions Estimates
2009 May Jeffrey H. Siegell Process plants must report emissions from an increasing number of sources. Use these pointers to prepare more-representative emissions inventories. ... -
What Does It Mean To Be Green?
2009 September Phillip E. Savage, P.E. Sustainability encompasses green chemistry and green engineering, among other concepts. This article explores some of the principles of sustainability and provides a framework for developing a lifecycle approach to c ... -
Wastewater Treatment: Understanding the Activated Sludge Process
2009 November Mark Sustarsic The activated sludge process is used to treat waste streams that are high in organics and biodegradable compounds. Here are some principles of design and operation. ...