Practitioner’s Section: Integrated Resource Efficiency Analysis for Reducing Climate Impacts in the Chemical Industry

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions of the material-intensive chemical industry requires an integrated analysis and optimization of the complex production systems including raw material and energy use, resulting costs and environmental and climate impacts. To meet this challenge, the research project...

Verfasser: Viere, Tobias
Ausberg, Laura
Bruns, Michael
Denz, Nicolas
Eschke, Jan
Hedemann, Jan
Jasch, Katharina
Lambrecht, Hendrik
Schmidt, Mario
Scholl, Stephan
Schröer, Tobias
Schulenburg, Frank
Schwartze, Britta
Stockmann, Markus
Wesche, Mandy
Witt, Klaus
Zschieschang, Eva
Dokumenttypen:Artikel
Medientypen:Text
Erscheinungsdatum:2014
Publikation in MIAMI:04.07.2014
Datum der letzten Änderung:21.03.2023
Quelle:Journal of Business Chemistry, 11 (2014) 2, S. 67-76
Angaben zur Ausgabe:[Electronic ed.]
Fachgebiet (DDC):330: Wirtschaft
Lizenz:InC 1.0
Sprache:English
Anmerkungen:Section "Practicioner’s Section"
Format:PDF-Dokument
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-92379610976
Permalink:https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-92379610976
Onlinezugriff:2014_vol-11_iss2_67-76.pdf

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions of the material-intensive chemical industry requires an integrated analysis and optimization of the complex production systems including raw material and energy use, resulting costs and environmental and climate impacts. To meet this challenge, the research project InReff (Integrated Resource Efficiency Analysis for Reducing Climate Impacts in the Chemical Industry) has been established. It aims at the development of an IT-supported modeling and evaluation framework which is able to comprehensively address issues of resource efficiency and climate change within the chemical industry, e.g. the minimization of material and energy intensity and consequently greenhouse gas emissions, without compromising on production performance. The paper presents background information on resource efficiency and the research project, an ideal-typical decision model for resource efficiency analysis, the conceptual approach for an IT-based integration platform as well as the case study design at the industrial project partners’ sites. These first results are linked to future activities and further research questions are highlighted in the concluding section.