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Nature-Inspired Principles for Sustainable Process Design in Chemical Engineering

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Sustainable chemical processes should be designed to combine the technological advantages and progress with lower safety risks and minimization of environmental impact such as, for example, reduction of raw materials, energy and water consumption, and avoidance of hazardous waste and pollution with toxic chemical agents. A number of novel eco-friendly chemical technologies have been developed in the recent decades with the help of the eco-innovations approaches and methods such as Life Cycle Analysis, Green Process Engineering, Process Intensification, Process Design for Sustainability, and others. An emerging approach to the sustainable process design in process engineering builds on the innovative solutions inspired from nature. However, the implementation of the eco-friendly technologies often faces secondary ecological problems. The study postulates that the eco-inventive principles identified in natural systems allow to avoid secondary eco-problems and proposes to apply these principles for sustainable design in chemical process engineering. The research work critically examines how this approach differs from the biomimetics, as it is commonly used for copying natural systems. The application of nature-inspired eco-design principles is illustrated with an example of a sustainable technology for extraction of nickel from pyrophyllite.
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hal-04067814 , version 1 (13-04-2023)

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Mr Mas’udah, Sandra Santosa, Pavel Livotov, Arun Prasad Chandra Sekaran, Luchis Rubianto. Nature-Inspired Principles for Sustainable Process Design in Chemical Engineering. TRIZ Future conference, Sep 2021, Bolzano, Italy. pp.30-41, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-86614-3_3⟩. ⟨hal-04067814⟩
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