Pollution prevention waste minimization—case study

Additionally, the EPA pubhshes a newsletter entitled Pollution Prevention News that contains information including EPA news, technologies, program updates, and case studies. The EPA s Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratoiy and the Center for Environmental Research Information has pubhshed several guidance documents, developed in cooperation with the California Department of Health Services. The manuals supplement generic waste reduction information presented in the EPA s Waste Minimization Opportunity Assessment Manual (Ref. 9). 

The objective of this paper is applying the multi-objective based analysis for the process synthesis with wastes minimization. A step-by-step systematic approach is proposed to ensure the reduction or elimination of the conflicts with regards to the waste handling and multi-objective synthesis. The pollution prevention alternatives are identified and the superstructure aimed at wastes minimization is formulated for the further mathematical optimisation. A case study, air-based direct oxidation process for the production of ethylene oxide, is presented for the illustration of the proposed approach. 

Pollution Prevention Case Studies - The case studies collection contains information on alternative processes, materials and management practices for pollution prevention and hazardous waste minimization. 

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