Designing Sustainable Processes and Products

Developing sustainable products and prioritizing sustainability, resilience, and adaptability in manufacturing processes is increasingly becoming important for businesses to stay competitive. Scientific innovation, incorporating quantitative sustainability metrics, and performing life cycle analysis (LCA) can all enable the profitable manufacturing of new/existing products while reducing the environmental impact. The speakers in this session provide examples for how this is done in their industry. Their talks cover the design of a sustainable manufacturing route for a new agrochemical, the use of modeling techniques in developing plastics recycling technology, and the application of LCA to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from renewable fuels.