Assessing and measuring environmental impact and sustainability / edited by Jirí Jaromír Klemes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klemes, Jiri, author.

Contributor:

Klemeš, Jiří Jaromír, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental impact analysis--Cost effectiveness.

Environmental impact analysis.

Environmental impact analysis--Data processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (608 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; Waltham, Massachusetts : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Assessing and Measuring Environmental Impact and Sustainability answers the question “what are the available methodologies to assess the environmental sustainability of a product, system or process?” Multiple well-known authors share their expertise in order to give a broad perspective of this issue from a chemical and environmental engineering perspective. This mathematical, quantitative book includes many case studies to assist with the practical application of environmental and sustainability methods. Readers learn how to efficiently assess and use these methods. This book summarizes all relevant environmental methodologies to assess the sustainability of a product and tools, in order to develop more green products or processes. With life cycle assessment as its main methodology, this book speaks to engineers interested in environmental impact and sustainability. Helps engineers to assess, evaluate, and measure sustainability in industry Provides workable approaches to environmental and sustainability assessment Readers learn tools to assess the sustainability of a process or product and to design it in an environmentally friendly way

Contents:

Front Cover; Assessing and Measuring Environmental Impact and Sustainability; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Introduction; Suitability Definitions, Systems Approach to Sustainability, and Ways to Express and Measure Sustainability; Quantification of the Environmental Impacts: Footprints; Sustainable Design, Planning, and Management; Policies Toward the Sustainability; Conclusion; References; 1 Engineering sustainability; Introduction; Extending boundaries; Systems analysis approach to sustainability and engineering challenges

Uncertainty analysisStatic uncertainties; Dynamic uncertainties; Ito process representation; Mental models; Decision making with uncertainty; Optimization approach; Agent-based scenario analysis; Case studies; Summary; References; 2 Recent developments in the application of Fisher information to sustainable environmental management; Introduction; Information theory; Fisher information; Dynamic order, regime shifts, and the sustainable regimes hypothesis; Comparison of Computational Approaches: Assessing Sustainability in Model Systems

Representing the trajectory of a system with elementary functionsWastewater reactor model for nitrogen removal; Shallow lake model: regime shift; Summary: comparison of methods 1 and 2; Application to real urban, regional, and national systems; Urban: Ohio statistical metropolitan areas; Early warning signals, regime change, and leading indicators; Bayes theorem; Regional: San Luis Basin, Colorado; National: United States; Exploring declines in FI as early warning signals of critical transition; Concluding remarks; Acknowledgments; Disclaimer; Appendix 2.1 Approaches to estimating FI

Method 1: Continuous form of FI as a function of the velocity and acceleration of the system's trajectoryMethod 2: Discrete form as a function of the probability density of system states; Binning approach; Algorithm; Appendix 2.2 FI at tipping points; References; 3 Sustainable process index; Measuring ecological impact-the normative base of the SPI; Assigning footprints to material flows; Calculating areas for materials subject to global material cycles; Calculating areas for all other materials; LCA with the SPI; Applications of the SPI; Characteristics of the SPI assessment

Tools Based on the SPIConclusion; References; 4 Moving to a decision point in sustainability analyses; Introduction; Defining a system in the context of sustainability; Indicator-based system assessment for sustainability; History of sustainability analysis through the use of indicators and metrics; AIChE sustainability metrics suite/BRIDGES to sustainability metrics; IChemE sustainable development process metrics; AIChE Sustainability Index; BASF: Eco-efficiency and SEEBALANCE® analysis; Research methodology; Need for aggregate index PLS-VIP method

Steps in sustainability analysis using the aggregate index PLS-VIP method

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780128022337

0128022337

9780127999685

012799968X

OCLC:

913880164