Crude oil prices have been increasing rapidly in recent years from the USD 17/bbl mark in 1995 to more than USD 100/bbl currently (based on Brent crude oil), and the detrimental environmental impact, such as global warming ...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a technique to calculate, assess, and analyze environmental impacts through the entire life cycle of products. LCSoft has been continuously developed as LCA software which has ability to ...

LCSoft software-tool has been developed to perform LCA as a stand-alone tool with ability to be integrated with other process design tools such as process simulation, economic analysis (ECON), and sustainable process design ...

The advent of complicated industrial water/wastewater management problems contributes to a determination of effective systematic design for sustainable solution of water balance among conservation, allocation and regeneration. ...

Creating a sustainable future offers challenges to engineers to develop chemical process designs that are not only technically and economically feasible but also environmental friendly. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a ...

This study focused on the sustainable process design of a bioethanol conversion process using lignocellulosic biomass as a raw material for fuel ethanol (99.5 wt%) production. The process simulator, PRO/II 8.2, was used ...

This study focused on the sustainable process design of bioethanol production from rice straw using various tools including: process simulation, sustainability analysis, economic evaluation and life cycle assessment (LCA). ...