Regardless of its size or nature, every industry generates waste and is
responsible for imple-menting the practices of pollution prevention and
waste minimization in its day-to-day operations. Whether it's dirty
water or toxic wastes, industrial pollution is all the same in one way:
it reduces a business's profitability. Identification of Cleaner
Production Improvement Opportunities urges environmental, health, and
safety department managers, industrial environmental consultants, and
personnel across all chemical engineering industries to employ a
forward-thinking and tested technology of process improvements that will
reduce waste generation, reduce the resources requirements to
manufacture a product, and, most important to the life of a business,
increase revenues.
This new publication consists of the following five sections:
* Section I: The relationships among cleaner production, waste, cleaner
production analyses, and their business values
* Section II: How to develop a cleaner production program
* Section III: The data requirements and data analyses for the
opportunity identification step
* Section IV: The opportunity identification step
* Section V: How to assess and rank the best ideas
Industry expert and chair of AIChE's Environmental Division, Kenneth
Mulholland introduces methodology in this manual that has been used to
identify process improvement opportunities for more than fifty
processes, including pharmaceutical intermediates, elastomer monomers
and polymers, polyester intermediates and polymers, batch processes such
as agricultural products and paints, chlorofluoro-hydrocarbon and
chlorocarbon processes, and specialty chemicals and waste water
treatment facilities. With no product changes or new technology
necessary, these process improvements have produced a 200 percent
internal rate of return and reduced waste generation by 40 percent to 50
percent.
