NDLI: Value of sustainability: perspectives of a chemical manufacturing site

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Author	Parthasarathy, Gautham Hart, Roy Jamro, Ed Miner, Leland
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	The chemical, polymer and petrochemical process industries, which play a vital role in manufacturing and distributing various products for the global marketplace, have experienced significant economic and regulatory pressures in recent years. The cost of raw materials has steadily increased while selling prices and profit margins have eroded due to increased global competition. This has resulted in a need to implement new cost reduction measures such as decreased energy usage. At the same time, the chemical industry is working to minimize environmental discharges and manufacture ‘green’ products via ‘sustainable’ industrial processes. Sustainability is a critical issue for the chemical industry. Solutia and other chemical companies have been attempting to enhance the short and long term sustainability of their operations. This chapter presents an account of sustainability related activities at Solutia’s (and Monsanto prior to 1997) Indian Orchard (IO), MA, site. The Monsanto pledge is described along with examples of the impacts on IO’s operations, employees and community. Descriptions of Solutia’s metrics for environmental (i.e., eco-efficiency) and quality (i.e., asset effectiveness management) performance are presented. Two examples from actual operations at the IO site are provided together with some thoughts on their value and applicability towards enhancing sustainability. While the first example focuses on recovering and recycling raw materials (thus lowering the demand for fresh resources), the second example focuses on the benefits of adopting a “global” perspective to solving process challenges. Finally, current efforts at the site (including a plant wide energy utility assessment and thermodynamic footprint analysis) and some gaps in current sustainability practice are briefly described.
Starting Page	219
Ending Page	229
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1618954X
Journal	Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
Volume Number	7
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	16189558
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2005-11-03
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Environmental Economics Industrial Pollution Prevention Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Industrial and Production Engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Environmental Chemistry Environmental Engineering Economics and Econometrics Business, Management and Accounting Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
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