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The field of process systems engineering refers to the various techniques to design, simulate, optimize, and operate chemical processes. A majority of chemical processes operate in a continuous fashion that is, raw material is continuously fed to the manufacturing process and product is continuously produced. Large manufacturing processes often run for 18 months or more without any major shutdown. For this reason, most process systems engineering techniques have been applied to continuous processes, which are the focus of this article. Batch processes are presented elsewhere. 

K. M. Ng, MOPSD A Framework Linking Business Decision-Making to Product and process Design, in Process Systems Engineering 2003, Ed. B. Chen and A. W. Westerberg, p. 63, Elsevier, 2003. 

Grossmann I.E. 2003. Challenges in the new millennium product discovery and design, enterprise and supply chain optimization, global life cycle assessment. PSE 2003. 8th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering, China. 

Since life cycle assessment (LCA) can be more than an environmental impact assessment approach, chapter Life Cycle Sustainabiftty Assessment A Holistic Evaluation of Social, Economic, and Environmental Impacts discusses life cycle sustainabiftty assessment. This extends the holistic environmental LCA to account for the economic and social pillars of sustainabiftty. Lastly, chapter Embedding Sustainabiftty in Product and Process Development—The Role of Process Systems Engineers describes the practical role of process systems engineers in the implementation of sustainabiftty in product and process development. It shows some key aspects and tools that practitioners should take into account to design and develop more sustainable products and processes during material selection, process design, process and product modeling, and supply chain implications. 

Embedding Sustainability in Product and Process Development—The Role of Process Systems Engineers... 

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