Sustainable Development Goals-Based Prospective Process Design Using Hybrid Modeling.

ABSTRACT: Replacing fossil technologies with renewable carbon-based technologies is of vital importance for the development of sustainable chemical processes in the future. However, impacts beyond climate change should be carefully evaluated to ensure that this transition to defossilized chemicals is truly sustainable. Here, we develop a framework for sustainable process design that explicitly accounts for the performance attained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which is computed using standard life cycle assessment (LCA) metrics alongside the planetary boundaries (PBs) concept. We apply this approach to design a CO₂ hydrogenation to methanol process, where economic and SDGs-based performance are the objectives optimized. We show that the environmentally optimal design reduce

SUBMITTER: Jog S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11803627 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature