Bookmarks Created During Spring 2009

Green Chemical and Energy Technologies Class

Bookmarks made by instructor and students using delicious social bookmarking site.

Sustainability, Green Engineering, and Green Design

Tools for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical and Other Environmental Impacts | US EPA
TRACI Tool for Reduction and Assessment of Chemical .... mentioned by Shonnard in his presentation on Maleic Anhydride Synthesis

Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Processes
Website of the Clean Processes Branch (CPB) is to develop and demonstrate clean technologies for pollution prevention, recycling and reuse. Contains links to the QSAR and WAR tools of the EPA. Gateway to EPA sites on Green Chemistry and Engineering.

NPPC Industrial Ecology Resource List
Books and Articles, Problem Sets, Case Studies, Videos, and Syllabi are suggested to faculty who are incorporating industrial ecology concepts and tools into their courses. NPPC is the National Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education (at Michigan Tech).

Green Design Institute - Carnegie Mellon University
This is a interdiscplinary research and education center at CMU in Pittsburgh. Publications link contains a fairly comprehensive bibliography of publications by the participating faculty, including dissertations. The education link goes to extensive course materials on 9 courses in green design, environmental engineering, and LCA.

AIChE Fall 2008 Meeting, Philadelphia
From here you can search for Green Chemistry and Engineering sessions and presentations within AICHE. Dr. Stanier has already done this search and has pdfs of many of the relevant sessions. Contact him if you are interested.

Green Design Reading Group, Carnegie Mellon University
See what a large group of graduate students interested in sustainability are reading. Downloadable PDFs of most of the articles. See "article archives"

Assignments
Sections from Univ of Texas Green Chem. Eng. course

Active and Cooperative Learning & Leading Discussions

Active Listening for the Classroom - active listening techniques
Active listening strategies -- may be helpful for discussion leader helpers in 52:237

RANDOM THOUGHTS - HOW ABOUT A QUICK ONE? (Richard Felder)
Contains ideas for short quizzes, cooperative problem solving topics, and reading discussion topics. Recommended for 52_237 students trying to write discussion questions.

DoingCL - Ice breakers
From Univ of Wisconsin, extensive collaborative learning website, includes some structured icebreaker activities for first day of class.

Foundation Coalition: Active/Cooperative Learning
Part of the Arizona State Active/Cooperative Learning Website - this is a list of teambuilding activities for engineering courses

Student-Centered Teaching from Felder
Single html page with good notes and many links for active/cooperative learning, especially with a focus on chemical engineering education.

Active and Coopeative Learning Paper from Paulson at
This is a paper, perhaps 10 pages long if in MS Word, entitled "Active Learning For The College Classroom" by D. Paulson at Cal State LA (Chem/biochem). It has an extensive bibliography, but the bibliography is not hyperlinked. It has a succinct list of 29 active/cooperative learning activities for the classroom.

Notetaking and Study Skills

Geek to Live: Take study-worthy lecture notes
Has good example of what cornell method notes look like.

Developing Your Reading Skills
Good overview of reading and notetaking issues. Dr. Stanier recommends the SQ4R reading method with the Cornell note taking system. The Cornell system allows you to leave space to add to your notes during class discussion.

Methods of Reading a Textbook
Covers SQR and Cornell active reading techniques.

Cornucopian versus Limitist Environmental Philosophies

Science Magazine: Tragedy of the Commons? -- Web Resources
Tragedy of the commons is mentioned on page 45 of the National Academy Report: Sustainability in the Chemical Industry. It is also an influential document that supported later Limitist authors and thinkers.

Air Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry - Web Resources and Data Sources

r98tab.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Maximum incremental reactivities

UPDATED MAXIMUM INCREMENTAL REACTIVITY SCALE FOR REGULATORY APPLICATIONS
Maximum incremental reactivity, mentioned in lecture Apr 2

20 Questions and Answers about the Ozone Layer
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/unepSciQandA.pdf
Was in the coursepak, but here is the online link.

Energy Technologies - Web Resources and Data Sources

Transportation Energy Data Book
A comprehensive data book for emissions from transportation, recommended by Min Huang

CO2 Emissions Report
Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Generation of Electric Power in the United States (2000, by DOE)

Green Power Equivalency Calculator | Green Power Partnership | US EPA
EPA Green Power Equivalency Calculator website

Industrial Technologies Program: BestPractices
Industrial energy auditing tool, DOE

Statistical Review of World Energy 2008 | BP
BP Review Document / Website Mentioned in Class on Feb 10, 2009

Renewable and Alternative Energy Section of DOE
Energy Information Analysis (eia) website
http://www.eia.doe.gov/fuelrenewable.html

Energy Information Analysis (eia) Annual Energy Review
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/contents.html

Iowa Biofuels Summit
http://www.iastate.edu/~biorenew/06/summit/summit.shtml

Green Chemistry

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge | Green Chemistry | US EPA
Homepage of the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge

1998 Academic Award (a) | Green Chemistry | US EPA
Barry Trost - text for his 1998 Presidentional Green Chemistry Award

Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge | Green Chemistry | US EPA
Main website for the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge. Good list of many previous winning projects in Green Chemistry.

Climate and Energy Policy

ChooseClimate: Interactive Java Climate Model
This climate model is working on firefox as of March 3

Pubs.GISS: Abstract of Hansen et al. 2007
Hansen article from 2007 on dangerous interference

Data Visualization at The Pew Center on the States

Iowa Climate Change Advisory Group, report
A very detailed report on Iowa's Greenhouse Gas Inventory and what policy option the state can/should take. Chaired by Prof. Jerry Schnoor and recently released (Dec 2008)

Iowa Climate Change Advisory Group
Website of the Governor's / Legislature's task force on climate change (Iowa)

ES&T Online News: Skeptics get a journal — Sciencebase Science Blog
Climate skeptic journal.

SciGuy: Roy Spencer, climate skeptic, speaks
One climate change skeptic on why skeptical viewpoints are not in Nature and Science.

GISS Temperature Pages
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
One global temperature anomaly index.

Texas Climate News

Texas Climate Initiative

Life Cycle Assessment - Examples, LCA Packages, LCA Courses, Etc.

LCA Simapro Course at RMIT. Background reading and downloads
This links to the background reading section of a course website for the Simapro LCA software. The course is offered at RMIT, which I believe is in the Netherlands. Site contains about 20 links. It has downloadable word and excel documents that are worksheets for completing an LCA.

LCA and LCC SimaPro Course at RMIT
Home page for RMIT SimaPro Course

LifeCycleInventory.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Shipping options example LCA

summary_of_global_lci_data_resources.pdf (application/pdf Object)
SUMMARY OF GLOBAL LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY DATA RESOURCES (Setac/UNEP)

EPA Compliance Assistance Sector Notebooks
EPA reports on average emissions from economic sectors of the U.S.

LCA hotlist G.Doka
A nice link to some valuable LCA input data

Resources | Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) | US EPA
EPA LCA Case Studies

NREL: U.S. Life-Cycle Inventory Database - Related Links
NREL List of LCA Databases, including several national databases

NREL: U.S. Life-Cycle Inventory Database - Life-Cycle Inventory Database NREL Lifecycle Database Tool

ACLCA Home
A list of case studies in LCA

LCA Software
Another (for profit) LCA software company with a proprietary database of data

LCA Global LCI Directory | US EPA
EPA Downloadable review of data sources for LCA, and link to SETAC task for on data sources for LCA

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) | US EPA
EPA Gateway Page to EPA Resources on Life Cycle Assessment

Environmental, Sustainability, and Energy Calculations for Chemical Processes

Amazon.com: A Working Guide to Process Equipment: Norman P. Lieberman, Elizabeth T. Lieberman: Books
A detailed book on unit operations

BRIDGES to Sustainability
Publications from Bridges to Sustainability, which is has a very "chemical engineer" focus on environmental accounting

PME_final_report.pdf (application/pdf Object)
A nice report on the levels of energy integration possible in chemicals manufacture, with detailed consideration of acetic acid.

SRI Consulting - Process Economics Program
Too expensive for students, but the process economics reports are widely cited in the Bridges to Sustainability work.

SRI Consulting - Chemical Economics Handbook
reports are expensive ($3000 each) but detailed reports on economics of chemical production

Chemical Energy Saver | It’s Time to Review Your Plant Energy Systems | Chemical Processing
Short article on energy efficiency in chemical plants

Books Recommended by Dr. Stanier to Find Processes to Analyze

Amazon.com: 1001 Chemicals in Everyday Products, 2nd Edition: Grace Ross Lewis: Books
Table of contents of 1001 Chemicals in Everyday Products can be viewed here