Computer Simulated Plant Design for Waste Minimization Pollution Prevention

✍ Scribed by Stan Bumble

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 177
• Series: Computer Modeling for Environmental Management
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Environmental science combined with computer technology. One click on a mouse and information flows into your PC from up to 10,000 miles away. When you receive this information you can ferret through the data and use it in any number of computer programs. The result: solutions to plant design problems that affect the health and well being of people around the globe. What does that mean to you, the environmental professional, scientist, or engineer? Computer Simulated Plant Design for Waste Minimization/Pollution Prevention builds on the concepts introduced in Stan Bumble's Computer Generated Physical Properties, the first volume of the Computer Modeling for Environmental Management series. Bumble discusses using computer simulation programs to solve problems in plant design before they occur. He covers design issues for stationary and non-stationary sources of pollution, global warming, troposcopic ozone, and stratospheric ozone. With Computer Simulated Plant Design for Waste Minimization/Pollution Prevention you will understand how to use computer technology to design plants that generate little or no pollution. Even better, you can use the information generated by computer simulation for technical data in proposals, presentations and as the basis for making policy decisions.

✦ Table of Contents

Section 1.20......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 0
Section 1.40......Page 2
Section 2.3......Page 3
Section 3.1......Page 4
Section 3.13......Page 5
Section 3.29......Page 6
Section 4.16......Page 7
Section 5.5......Page 8
End Notes......Page 9
COMPUTER SIMULATED PLANT DESIGN for WASTE MINIMIZATION/POLLUTION PREVENTION......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
The Author......Page 18
Table of Contents......Page 19
List of Figures......Page 22
Conclusions......Page 25
End Notes......Page 26
COMPUTER SIMULATED PLANT DESIGN for WASTE MINIMIZATION/POLLUTION PREVENTION......Page 28
1.2 Analysis Synthesis & Design of Chemical Processes......Page 62
1.3 Strategy and Control of Exhausts......Page 63
Catalytic Oxidation......Page 64
Halogenated Hydrocarbons......Page 65
Component Separation via Flash and Distillation......Page 66
1.5 Integrated Design of Reaction and Separation Systems for Waste Minimization......Page 67
1.6 A Review of Computer Process Simulation in Industrial Pollution Prevention......Page 68
1.8 Models......Page 72
1.9 Process Simulation Seen as Pivotal in Corporate Information Flow......Page 73
1.11 Pollution Prevention in Design: Site Level Implementation Strategy For DOE......Page 74
1.12 Pollution Prevention in Process Development and Design......Page 75
1.13 Pollution Prevention......Page 76
1.14 Pollution Prevention Research Strategy......Page 77
1.15 Pollution Prevention Through Innovative Technologies and Process Design at UCLA’s Center for Clean Technology......Page 78
Minimizing the Wastes from the Manufacture of Vinyl Chloride......Page 79
1.16 Assessment of Chemical Processes with Regard to Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects in Early Design Phases......Page 80
1.19 Pollution Prevention as Corporate Entrepreneurship......Page 81
1.22 Computer-Aided Design of Clean Processes......Page 82
1.26 Model-Based Environmental Sensitivity Analysis for Designing a Clean Process Plant......Page 84
1.29 ZERI Theory......Page 85
1.32 About Pollution Prevention......Page 86
1.34 EPA Environmental Fact Sheet, EPA Releases RCRA Waste Minimization PBT Chemical List......Page 87
Introduction......Page 88
Mathematical Ecotoxicity......Page 89
Networks and Ecosystems......Page 90
Applications......Page 92
1.41 Risk:A Human Science......Page 93
Safe Science......Page 94
The Future......Page 95
1.42 IPPS......Page 96
2.6 Elements of Graph Theory......Page 97
2.11 Traveling Salesman Problem TSP)-Combinatorial Optimization......Page 98
2.16 Simulated Annealing......Page 99
2.18 Global Optimization Methods......Page 100
2.19 Genetic Programming......Page 101
2.23 Scheduling of Processes for Waste Minimization......Page 102
2.27 Petri Net-Digraph Models for Automating HAZOP Analysis of Batch Process Plants......Page 103
2.30 Dependency-Directed Backtracking......Page 105
1997 Progress Report:Development and Testing of Pollution Prevention Design Aids for Process Analysis and Decision Testing......Page 106
2.34 Nuclear Facility Design Considerations That Incorporate WM/P2 Lessons Learned......Page 107
Current Status......Page 108
Future Prospects......Page 109
Looking Ahead......Page 110
3.2 Introduction to the Green Design......Page 111
3.4 Simulation Sciences......Page 112
3.5 EPA/NSF Partnership for Environmental Research......Page 113
3.7 Process Synthesis......Page 114
3.9 Process Design and Simulations......Page 116
3.10 Robust Self-Assembly Using Highly Designable Structures and Self-Organizing Systems......Page 117
3.12 Mass Integration......Page 118
3.15 Pollution Prevention by Reactor Network Synthesis......Page 119
3.17 Chemkin......Page 120
3.19 Multiobjective Optimization......Page 122
3.20 Risk Reduction Through Waste Minimizing Process Synthesis......Page 123
3.21 Kintecus......Page 125
3.24 P2-EDGE Software......Page 126
Node Information......Page 127
Rigorous Biotreatment Modeling......Page 128
3.30 Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)......Page 129
3.31 Computer Programs......Page 130
3.34 WMCAPS......Page 133
4.2 Physical Properties form Groups......Page 135
4.3 Examples of SYNPROPS Optimization and Substitution......Page 136
4.4 Toxic Ignorance......Page 137
A RaPiD Approach......Page 138
4.7 Aerosols Exposed......Page 139
Exposure Routes......Page 140
Susceptible Skin......Page 141
4.9 Computer Aided Molecular Design (CAMD): Designing Better Chemical Products......Page 142
4.12 Design of Molecules with Desired Properties by Combinatorial Analysis......Page 143
4.14 Automatic Molecular Design Using Evolutionary Techniques......Page 144
4.16 Testsmart Project to Promote Faster, Cheaper, More Humane Lab Tests......Page 145
DECHEMA......Page 146
4.18 Cleaner Synthesis......Page 147
Side Reactions......Page 148
Is It Cleaner?......Page 149
1 Better by Design......Page 150
2 Catalysts for Change......Page 151
4.21 Programming Pollution Prevention and Waste Minimization Within a Process Simulation Program......Page 152
4.24 EPA Programs......Page 154
4.29 Pinch Technology......Page 155
Carcinogenic Risks......Page 156
4.32 Scorecard-Pollution Rankings......Page 157
4.34 Safer by Design......Page 158
Design Constraints......Page 159
The Actions Needed......Page 160
Integrating Environmental Impacts into Product Design......Page 161
5.2 A Small Part of the Mechanisms from the Department of Chemistry of Leeds University......Page 162
Daylight......Page 165
Building the Shortest Synthesis Route......Page 166
Generating the Chemistry......Page 167
The Future of SYNGEN......Page 168
5.7 Software Simulations Lead to Better Assembly Lines......Page 169
5.10 ORDKIN a Model of Order and Kinetics for the Chemical Potential of Cancer Cells......Page 170
Results of the Study......Page 171
5.13 The Path Probability Method......Page 173
5.14 The Method of Steepest Descents......Page 175
Summary of PPBR Program Areas......Page 176
5.16 The VHDL Process......Page 177