Environmental impact minimisation through material substitution: A multi-objective optimisation approach Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This paper presents an approach for identifying improved business and environmental performance of a process design. The design task is formulated as a multi-objective optimisation problem where consideration is given to not only the traditional economic criteria, but also to the multiple environmental concerns. Finally, using plant-wide substitution of alternative materials as an example, it is shown how potential stepchange improvements in both life cycle environmental impact and process economics can be achieved. 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS ENGINEERING - 13

author list (cited authors)

  • Hugo, A., Ciumei, C., Buxton, A., & Pistikopoulos, E. N.

citation count

  • 3

publication date

  • January 2003