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Global metrics, sustainable development

Efforts to develop sustainability indicators and metrics have been made at various scales, ranging from global down to local community, business unit, and technology levels. In general, indicators and metrics are designed to capture the ideas inherent in sustainability and transform them into a manageable set of quantitative measures and indices that are useful for communication and decision-making. In this section, we provide an overview of sustainability indicators and metrics, especially as they relate to the chemical industry. This section will be followed by two specific case studies on the uses of sustainability metrics and indicators in product/process development in chemical companies. [Pg.199]

The alkylation of benzene with linear olefins (Cj(,-Cj4) is largely used industrially to produce linear alkylbenzenes (LABs), precursors ofalkylbenzenesulfonates which are employed as surfactants and detergent intermediates. LAB global demand is about 2.7 million metric tons per year. Traditional processes are catalyzed by acid catalysts such as AlClj and mainly HF. The processes are designed to minimize skeletal isomerization of the linear olefins since high linearity is necessary to yield biodegradable products [31). In order to improve the sustainability of these processes, various solid acids have been developed. The use of ILs is one of the possibilities to consider. [Pg.520]


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