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Multi-scale sustainable engineering: Integrated design of reaction networks, life cycles, and economic sectors. Comput Chem Eng 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2021.107578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Zhou Z, Zou Y. Research on grey situation decision in the context of system analysis of village planning projects using fuzzy TOPSIS. JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & FUZZY SYSTEMS 2021. [DOI: 10.3233/jifs-189641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Problems involving decision-making and management of engineering projects call for attention from different quarters and the issue of decision-making for projects under the state planning in particular should be the major concern of project management. This study takes a traditional village protection project —- the preservation of Zaoshi Village, Xingan County, Jiangxi Province, China—- as a case in point. Treating the decision-making process as a system, the study employs ISM model to examine the system-level relationship between engineering projects. Artificial Intelligence is utilized for analyzing the planning of project structure and Fuzzy TOPSIS model is useful in estimating the weights of the scenario and find the ranking of structure finally. Then, using the analytical data thus derived, the research focuses on identifying the optimum option for decision-making. By this process, the study intends to gain and share some insight into the issue and establish precedents for similar engineering projects.
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- Zaohong Zhou
- School of Tourism and Urban Management, Jiangxi University of Finance & Economics, Nanchang, P.R. China
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- School of Tourism and Urban Management, Jiangxi University of Finance & Economics, Nanchang, P.R. China
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Shah SL, Bakshi BR, Liu J, Georgakis C, Chachuat B, Braatz RD, Young BR. Meeting the challenge of water sustainability: The role of process systems engineering. AIChE J 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.17113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- Sirish L. Shah
- Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio USA
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- Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada
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- Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering Tufts University Medford Massachusetts USA
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- Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering Imperial College London London UK
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand
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Kleinekorte J, Fleitmann L, Bachmann M, Kätelhön A, Barbosa-Póvoa A, von der Assen N, Bardow A. Life Cycle Assessment for the Design of Chemical Processes, Products, and Supply Chains. Annu Rev Chem Biomol Eng 2020; 11:203-233. [PMID: 32216728 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-011520-075844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Design in the chemical industry increasingly aims not only at economic but also at environmental targets. Environmental targets are usually best quantified using the standardized, holistic method of life cycle assessment (LCA). The resulting life cycle perspective poses a major challenge to chemical engineering design because the design scope is expanded to include process, product, and supply chain. Here, we first provide a brief tutorial highlighting key elements of LCA. Methods to fill data gaps in LCA are discussed, as capturing the full life cycle is data intensive. On this basis, we review recent methods for integrating LCA into the design of chemical processes, products, and supply chains. Whereas adding LCA as a posteriori tool for decision support can be regarded as established, the integration of LCA into the design process is an active field of research. We present recent advances and derive future challenges for LCA-based design.
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- Johanna Kleinekorte
- Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany;
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- Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany;
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- Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany;
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- Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany;
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- Centre for Management Studies, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, 1649-004, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany;
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- Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany; .,Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52428 Jülich, Germany
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Bakshi BR, Ghosh T, Lee K. Engineering, markets, and human behavior: an essential integration for decisions toward sustainability. Curr Opin Chem Eng 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2019.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Process systems engineering thinking and tools applied to sustainability problems: current landscape and future opportunities. Curr Opin Chem Eng 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2019.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Toward multiscale consequential sustainable process design: Including the effects of economy and resource constraints with application to green urea production in a watershed. Chem Eng Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2019.06.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Ghosh T, Bakshi BR. Designing biofuel supply chains while mitigating harmful algal blooms with treatment wetlands. Comput Chem Eng 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2019.03.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Products from chemical engineering are essential for human well-being, but they also contribute to the degradation of ecosystem goods and services that are essential for sustaining all human activities. To contribute to sustainability, chemical engineering needs to address this paradox by developing chemical products and processes that meet the needs of present and future generations. Unintended harm of chemical engineering has usually appeared outside the discipline's traditional system boundary due to shifting of impacts across space, time, flows, or disciplines, and exceeding nature's capacity to supply goods and services. Being a subdiscipline of chemical engineering, process systems engineering (PSE) is best suited for ensuring that chemical engineering makes net positive contributions to sustainable development. This article reviews the role of PSE in the quest toward a sustainable chemical engineering. It focuses on advances in metrics, process design, product design, and process dynamics and control toward sustainability. Efforts toward contributing to this quest have already expanded the boundary of PSE to consider economic, environmental, and societal aspects of processes, products, and their life cycles. Future efforts need to account for the role of ecosystems in supporting industrial activities, and the effects of human behavior and markets on the environmental impacts of chemical products. Close interaction is needed between the reductionism of chemical engineering science and the holism of process systems engineering, along with a shift in the engineering paradigm from wanting to dominate nature to learning from it and respecting its limits.
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- Bhavik R Bakshi
- Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA;
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Rodríguez‐Vallejo DF, Galán‐Martín Á, Guillén‐Gosálbez G, Chachuat B. Data envelopment analysis approach to targeting in sustainable chemical process design: Application to liquid fuels. AIChE J 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.16480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Daniel F. Rodríguez‐Vallejo
- Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Centre for Process System EngineeringImperial College London South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ U.K
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- Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Centre for Process System EngineeringImperial College London South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ U.K
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- Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Centre for Process System EngineeringImperial College London South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ U.K
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- Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Centre for Process System EngineeringImperial College London South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ U.K
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Energy is a key driver of the modern economy, therefore modeling and simulation of energy systems has received significant research attention. We review the major developments in this area and propose two ways to categorize the diverse contributions. The first categorization is according to the modeling approach, namely into computational, mathematical, and physical models. With this categorization, we highlight certain novel hybrid approaches that combine aspects of the different groups proposed. The second categorization is according to field namely Process Systems Engineering (PSE) and Energy Economics (EE). We use the following criteria to illustrate the differences: the nature of variables, theoretical underpinnings, level of technological aggregation, spatial and temporal scales, and model purposes. Traditionally, the Process Systems Engineering approach models the technological characteristics of the energy system endogenously. However, the energy system is situated in a broader economic context that includes several stakeholders both within the energy sector and in other economic sectors. Complex relationships and feedback effects exist between these stakeholders, which may have a significant impact on strategic, tactical, and operational decision-making. Leveraging the expertise built in the Energy Economics field on modeling these complexities may be valuable to process systems engineers. With this categorization, we present the interactions between the two fields, and make the case for combining the two approaches. We point out three application areas: (1) optimal design and operation of flexible processes using demand and price forecasts, (2) sustainability analysis and process design using hybrid methods, and (3) accounting for the feedback effects of breakthrough technologies. These three examples highlight the value of combining Process Systems Engineering and Energy Economics models to get a holistic picture of the energy system in a wider economic and policy context.
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Ghosh T, Bakshi BR. Process to Planet Approach to Sustainable Process Design: Multiple Objectives and Byproducts. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 2018. [DOI: 10.1134/s0040579517060045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Gopalakrishnan V, Bakshi BR. Ecosystems as unit operations for local techno‐ecological synergy: Integrated process design with treatment wetlands. AIChE J 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.16093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Varsha Gopalakrishnan
- Lowrie Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringThe Ohio State UniversityColumbus OH, 43210
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- Lowrie Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringThe Ohio State UniversityColumbus OH, 43210
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Veldhuis AJ, Yang A. Integrated approaches to the optimisation of regional and local food–energy–water systems. Curr Opin Chem Eng 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2017.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Gopalakrishnan V, Bakshi BR, Ziv G. Assessing the capacity of local ecosystems to meet industrial demand for ecosystem services. AIChE J 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.15340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- Varsha Gopalakrishnan
- Lowrie Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringThe Ohio State UniversityColumbus OH43210
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- Lowrie Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringThe Ohio State UniversityColumbus OH43210
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- School of GeographyUniversity of LeedsLeedsLS2 9JT UK
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Yue D, Pandya S, You F. Integrating Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment with Multiobjective Optimization: A Modeling Framework. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2016; 50:1501-1509. [PMID: 26752618 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b04279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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By combining life cycle assessment (LCA) with multiobjective optimization (MOO), the life cycle optimization (LCO) framework holds the promise not only to evaluate the environmental impacts for a given product but also to compare different alternatives and identify both ecologically and economically better decisions. Despite the recent methodological developments in LCA, most LCO applications are developed upon process-based LCA, which results in system boundary truncation and underestimation of the true impact. In this study, we propose a comprehensive LCO framework that seamlessly integrates MOO with integrated hybrid LCA. It quantifies both direct and indirect environmental impacts and incorporates them into the decision making process in addition to the more traditional economic criteria. The proposed LCO framework is demonstrated through an application on sustainable design of a potential bioethanol supply chain in the UK. Results indicate that the proposed hybrid LCO framework identifies a considerable amount of indirect greenhouse gas emissions (up to 58.4%) that are essentially ignored in process-based LCO. Among the biomass feedstock options considered, using woody biomass for bioethanol production would be the most preferable choice from a climate perspective, while the mixed use of wheat and wheat straw as feedstocks would be the most cost-effective one.
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- Dajun Yue
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University , Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University , Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University , Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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Floudas CA, Niziolek AM, Onel O, Matthews LR. Multi‐scale systems engineering for energy and the environment: Challenges and opportunities. AIChE J 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.15151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Christodoulos A. Floudas
- Artie McFerrin Dept. of Chemical EngineeringTexas A&M UniversityCollege Station TX77843 USA
- Texas A&M Energy Institute, 302D Williams Administration Building, 3372 Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station TX77843USA
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- Dept. of Chemical and Biological EngineeringPrinceton UniversityPrinceton NJ08544 USA
- Artie McFerrin Dept. of Chemical EngineeringTexas A&M UniversityCollege Station TX77843 USA
- Texas A&M Energy Institute, 302D Williams Administration Building, 3372 Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station TX77843USA
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- Dept. of Chemical and Biological EngineeringPrinceton UniversityPrinceton NJ08544 USA
- Artie McFerrin Dept. of Chemical EngineeringTexas A&M UniversityCollege Station TX77843 USA
- Texas A&M Energy Institute, 302D Williams Administration Building, 3372 Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station TX77843USA
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- Dept. of Chemical and Biological EngineeringPrinceton UniversityPrinceton NJ08544 USA
- Artie McFerrin Dept. of Chemical EngineeringTexas A&M UniversityCollege Station TX77843 USA
- Texas A&M Energy Institute, 302D Williams Administration Building, 3372 Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station TX77843USA
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Design of Sustainable Biofuel Processes and Supply Chains: Challenges and Opportunities. Processes (Basel) 2015. [DOI: 10.3390/pr3030634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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