LCA Integration Within Sustainability Metrics for Chemical Companies

ReAction! gives a scientist's and artist's response to the dark and bright sides of chemistry found in 140 films, most of them contemporary Hollywood feature films but also a few documentaries, shorts, silents, and international films. Even though there are some examples of screen chemistry between the actors and of behind-the-scenes special effects, this book is really about the chemistry when it is part of the narrative. It is about the dualities of Dr. Jekyll vs. inventor chemists, the invisible man vs. forensic chemists, chemical weapons vs. classroom chemistry, chemical companies that knowingly pollute the environment vs. altruistic research chemists trying to make the world a better place to live, and, finally, about people who choose to experiment with mind-altering drugs vs. the drug discovery process. Little did Jekyll know when he brought the Hyde formula to his lips that his personality split would provide the central metaphor that would come to describe chemistry in the movies. This book explores the two movie faces of this supposedly neutral science. Watching films with chemical eyes, Dr. Jekyll is recast as a chemist engaged in psychopharmaceutical research but who becomes addicted to his own formula. He is balanced by the often wacky inventor chemists who make their discoveries by trial-and-error.

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How 4 of The Top 5 Chemical Companies See Computational Chemistiy

Chemical & Engineering News ◽

10.1021/cen-v067n026.ibc ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 67 (26) ◽

pp. ibc

Keyword(s):

Chemical Companies

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Evaluating ERP System Merging Success In Chemical Companies: System Quality, Information Quality, And Service Quality

Open Engineering ◽

10.1515/eng-2020-0003 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 282-293

Author(s):

Ford Lumban Gaol ◽

Intan Puryasana ◽

Tokuro Matsuo

Keyword(s):

Service Quality ◽

Enterprise Resource Planning ◽

Information Quality ◽

Resource Planning ◽

System Quality ◽

Erp System ◽

Implementation Team ◽

Chemical Company ◽

Chemical Companies ◽

It Application

AbstractThis study is aimed to analyze success of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System Merging in Chemical Company Singapore that acquired two companies. The success component of ERP system success is using DeLone and McLean success model with qualitative method. The research methodology used detail interview with project implementation team, ERP consultants (8 informants) to get more detail from ERP system merging with information and collected supporting data from the ERP system itself. The result shows that ERP System Merging succeed to increase the system quality of Chemical Company which acquired two companies into one ERP system. It was depicted by the increment of easiness on using the system. The information much more integrated and accurate after the ERP system merging. Meanwhile service quality was increased because of all incidents now monitored in one efficient log system and handled by experienced IT application support team.

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Chemical companies shut 3 plants

C&EN Global Enterprise ◽

10.1021/cen-09846-buscon7 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 98 (46) ◽

pp. 14-14

Author(s):

Alex Tullo

Keyword(s):

Chemical Companies

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A critical analysis of environmental sustainability metrics applied to green synthesis of nanomaterials and the assessment of environmental risks associated with the nanotechnology

The Science of The Total Environment ◽

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148524 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 148524

Author(s):

Angélica García-Quintero ◽

Manuel Palencia

Keyword(s):

Green Synthesis ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Environmental Risks ◽

Sustainability Metrics ◽

Synthesis Of Nanomaterials

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Legitimating power: Solar energy rollout, sustainability metrics and transition politics

Environment and Planning E Nature and Space ◽

10.1177/25148486211024903 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 251484862110249

Author(s):

Siddharth Sareen

Keyword(s):

Solar Energy ◽

Political Ecology ◽

Global Climate ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Analytical Framework ◽

Solar Irradiation ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Sustainability Metrics ◽

Energy Transitions

Increasing recognition of the irrefutable urgency to address the global climate challenge is driving mitigation efforts to decarbonise. Countries are setting targets, technological innovation is making renewable energy sources competitive and fossil fuel actors are leveraging their incumbent privilege and political reach to modulate energy transitions. As techno-economic competitiveness is rapidly reconfigured in favour of sources such as solar energy, governance puzzles dominate the research frontier. Who makes key decisions about decarbonisation based on what metrics, and how are consequent benefits and burdens allocated? This article takes its point of departure in ambitious sustainability metrics for solar rollout that Portugal embraced in the late 2010s. This southwestern European country leads on hydro and wind power, and recently emerged from austerity politics after the 2008–2015 recession. Despite Europe’s best solar irradiation, its big solar push only kicked off in late 2018. In explaining how this arose and unfolded until mid-2020 and why, the article investigates what key issues ambitious rapid decarbonisation plans must address to enhance social equity. It combines attention to accountability and legitimacy to offer an analytical framework geared at generating actionable knowledge to advance an accountable energy transition. Drawing on empirical study of the contingencies that determine the implementation of sustainability metrics, the article traces how discrete acts legitimate specific trajectories of territorialisation by solar photovoltaics through discursive, bureaucratic, technocratic and financial practices. Combining empirics and perspectives from political ecology and energy geographies, it probes the politics of just energy transitions to more low-carbon and equitable societal futures.

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