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Click here for selected articles on BRIDGES' sustainability metrics.

BRIDGES Publications - Book

·      Translating Sustainability Strategies into Action: The Chemical Industry, John Wiley & Sons, upcoming Spring 2005 (Beloff and Lines with Tanzil, editors). 

BRIDGES Publications - Journal Papers

·      "Corporate Sustainable Development Performance Assessment," Environmental Progress, 23(4):271-276, 2004 (Beloff, Tanzil, and Lines). 

·      "Use Sustainability Metrics to Guide Decision-Making,"  Chemical Engineering Progress, July 2002, pp. 58-63 (Schwarz, Beloff, and Beaver). [full paper in pdf]

·      "Climate change: What does it mean to the process engineer?," Environmental Progress, 21(3):O17-O21, 2001 (Retoske and Beaver). 

·      "Practical Minimum Energy Requirements for Chemical Product Manufacturing: A Management Decision Tool for Achieving Sustainable Products," Environmental Quality Management, Winter 2001, pp. 75-89 (Schwarz, Beloff, Beaver, and Tanzil). [contact us for full paper]. 

·      "Assessing Societal Costs Associated with Environmental Impact," Environmental Quality Management, Winter 2000, pp. 67-81 (Beloff, Beaver, and Massin). [contact us for full paper]. 

·      "A Fresh Approach Towards Being Sustainable," Clean Products and Processes, 2(2): 75-76, 2000 (Beaver).

·      "LCA and Total Cost Assessment," Environmental Progress, 19(2): 130-139, 2000 (Beaver).

BRIDGES Publications - Conference Proceedings

·      "Automating the Sustainability Metrics Approach," presented at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Spring Meeting, New Orleans, April 2004 (Tanzil, Ma, Beloff). [preprint in pdf] [presentation in pdf]

·      "Application of Sustainability Tools to Nanotechnology," presented at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Spring Meeting, New Orleans, April 2004 (Beaver and Tanzil). 

·      "Identifying Improvement Opportunities through Sustainability Metrics and Process Mapping Methodologies," presented at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2003 (Tanzil, Beloff, Pojasek). 

·      "Sustainable Development Performance Assessment," presented at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2003 (Beloff, Lines, Pojasek). 

·      "Sustainability Metrics," presented at the 11th International Greening of Industry Network Conference, San Francisco, October 12-15, 2003 (Tanzil, Ma, Beloff).  [preprint in pdf]

·      "Are we Talking the Talk or Walking the Talk?  Corporate Sustainable Development Performance Assessment," presented at the 11th International Greening of Industry Network Conference, San Francisco, October 12-15, 2003 (Beloff, Lines, Pojasek).  [preprint in pdf]

·      "Using Total Cost Assessment for Facility Design Optimization," presented at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, November 2002 (Tanzil, Murphy, Schwarz, Beaver). [extended abstract in pdf]

·      "Integrating Decision Support Tools for a More Sustainable Industry," paper SPE 73970 presented at the SPE International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 20-22 March 2002 (Beloff, Schwarz, and Beaver). [first page in pdf] [full paper available from SPE] [contact us for full preprint] 

·      "Determination of Practical Minimum Energy Requirements," paper SPE 74107 presented at the SPE International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 20-22 March 2002 (Tanzil, Schwarz, Beaver, and Beloff). [first page in pdf] [full paper available from SPE] [contact us for full preprint] 

·      "Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Offset Efforts and Greening the Modern Supply Chain," presented at the 6th International Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, Chihuahua, Mexico, July 8-11, 2001 (Retoske, Beloff, Beaver).

·      "Determination of Practical Minimum Energy Requirements for Major Chemical Products," presented at the 6th International Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, Chihuahua, Mexico, July 8-11, 2001 (Schwarz, Tanzil, Beaver).

·      "Usable Sustainability Metrics for Industry," presented at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Spring Meeting, Houston, April 2001 (Beloff, Schwarz, Beaver). [extended abstract in pdf]

·      "Determination of Practical Minimum Energy Requirements for High Production Volume Chemicals," presented at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Spring Meeting, Houston, April 2001 (Schwarz, Tanzil, Beaver).

·      "Sustainability Indicators and Metrics of Industrial Performance,"  paper SPE 60982 presented at the SPE International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, Stavanger, Norway, 26-28 June 2000 (Beloff and Beaver). 

BRIDGES Reports

·      "Assessment of Potential Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Microstructure-Level Simulation for a Steel Component: An Exploratory Research," submitted to the National Science Foundation, May 2004. [full report in pdf (1.6 MB)]

·      "Assessment of Information Needs for Air Pollution Health Effects Research in Houston, Texas," submitted to the Texas Council on Environmental Technology (TCET), February 2003. [download full report from TCET]

·      "Incorporating Total Cost Assessment Methodology to Enhance Chemical Complex Optimization," submitted to the Gulf Coast Hazardous Substance Research Center, December 2002. [contact us for full report]

·      "Using Total Cost Assessment to Optimize Technology Selection for Pollution Prevention in Chemical Complexes," submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, September 2002.

·      "A Pilot Study of Energy Performance Levels for the U.S. Chemical Industry," submitted to the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Industrial Technology, June 2001.  [full report in pdf (0.9 MB)]

·      "Sustainability Metrics: Making Decisions for Major Chemical Products and Facilities," submitted to the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Industrial Technology, 2000. [contact us for full report]

·      "Evaluation of Societal Costs: Odors and Eutrophication," submitted to the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Industrial Technology, June 2000. [full report in pdf (1.2 MB)]


 

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