Chemical processes

Strategic Sustainable Assessment of Retrofit Design for Process Performance Evaluation

A. Carvalho

Sustainability in the Design, Synthesis and Analysis of Chemical Engineering Processes (Published)

Jun, 2016

Keywords: Chemical processes Life cycle assessment Metrics Retrofit Social aspects Sustainability

Global markets have been facing an increasing competitiveness, leading to a dramatic intensification of the market pressures in terms of business sustainability. Businesses, through their industrial processes, urgently require retrofit actions for improving their sustainability performance…

Roadmap for Environmental Impact Retrofit in chemical processes through the application of Life Cycle Assessment methods

A.F. Mimoso, A. Carvalho, A.N. Mendes, A.P. Barbosa-Povóa

Journal of Cleaner Production (Published)

Mar, 2015

Keywords: Environmental impact Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) methods Chemical processes Framework SimaPro

The European Commission presented the Life Cycle Assessment as the best framework for evaluating the environmental impact of products/processes. Companies are trying to reduce the environmental impact of products/processes, therefore the European Commission underlined the need for…