Environmentally Conscious Chemical Process Design
TEXTS:
Pollution Prevention for Chemical Processes
David T. Allen and Kirsten Sinclair Rosselot, John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997
A Chemical Engineer's Guide to Environmental Law and
Regulation
Holly Lynch, available from the National Pollution
Prevention Center for Higher Education
(nppc@umich.edu)
Benign by Design
ACS Symp. Ser. 577, P. T. Anastas and C. A. Farris, eds.
American Chemical Society, 1994
Green Chemistry
ACS Symp. Ser. 626, P. T. Anastas and T. C. Williamson, eds.
American Chemical Society, 1996
SYLLABUS:
Macroscale
Introduction and overview (Chapter 1)
- what's the problem?
- remediation vs. prevention
- what is pollution prevention?
Wastes and Emissions in the US (Chapter 2)
- waste inventories and various classifications
- prioritizing wastes
Government Regulations
- Lynch
- why Chegs should understand environmental law
- sources and layers of environmental law
- TSCA, FIFRA, OSHA, CAA, CWA, RCRA, CERCLA,
EPCRA and the Pollution Prevention Act
Industrial Ecology (Chapter 3)
- materials integrations
- waste recovery
- technology and the industrial ecosystem
Life-cycle assessment (Chapter 4)
- inventories and impact assessment
- uncertainties
- applications of life-cycle assessment
Mesoscale
Waste Audits and Emission Inventories (Chapter 5)
- estimating fugitive and secondary emissions
- ranking emissions
Pollution Prevention (unit operations, equipment)
(Chapter 6 & 7)
- "housekeeping" solutions
- engineering solutions
- new technology (guest lectures)
Flowsheet Analysis for Pollution Prevention (Chapter 8)
- qualitative methods
- quantitative methods - mass exchange networks
Management of P2 Activities at Industrial Facilities
(Chapter 9)
- hidden costs
- ranking P2 options (Yorktown study and video)
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