Identification of Cleaner Production Improvement Opportunities (PDF)

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.