This document discusses the pros and cons of engineering achievements and how green engineering aims to maximize benefits while minimizing negative impacts. It outlines 12 principles of green engineering focused on minimizing hazardous materials and waste, designing for durability and reuse. Goals of green chemistry include improving efficiency with less toxic processes using renewable resources. Examples show replacing toxic materials and solvents with safer alternatives. Engineers should consider the full life cycle from development to disposal to account for environmental performance.
This document discusses the pros and cons of engineering achievements and how green engineering aims to maximize benefits while minimizing negative impacts. It outlines 12 principles of green engineering focused on minimizing hazardous materials and waste, designing for durability and reuse. Goals of green chemistry include improving efficiency with less toxic processes using renewable resources. Examples show replacing toxic materials and solvents with safer alternatives. Engineers should consider the full life cycle from development to disposal to account for environmental performance.
This document discusses the pros and cons of engineering achievements and how green engineering aims to maximize benefits while minimizing negative impacts. It outlines 12 principles of green engineering focused on minimizing hazardous materials and waste, designing for durability and reuse. Goals of green chemistry include improving efficiency with less toxic processes using renewable resources. Examples show replacing toxic materials and solvents with safer alternatives. Engineers should consider the full life cycle from development to disposal to account for environmental performance.
Shahzad Ahamd Pros & Cons of Engineering Achievements
Services in our daily life developed and provided
by engineers can have both benefits and negative impact on human society. Pros and Cons of Human development
Benefits Negative Impact
• Water • Economy • Sanitation • Health • Mobility • Environment • Energy (Pillars of sustainability) • Food • Health care • Shelter • Communication • Space exploration Green Engineering and its Goals • It is the design, discovery and implementation of engineering solutions with an awareness of potential benefits and problems in terms of the three pillars of sustainability. • The goal is to optimize the adverse impacts of human development in terms of technology in order it maximize its benefits to the three pillars of sustainability i.e. economy, health and environment in contrast to conventional engineering. Comparison Green Engineering Conventional Engineering • Insufficient utilization of • Protection and restoration water of natural systems • Depletion of energy • Improved quality of life for resources all species • Urban congestion • Competitive and growing • Degradation of natural economy for all. systems 12 Principles of Green Engineering • Energy and material inputs and outputs are not hazardous as possible. • Prevent waste than to clean it. • Treatment and purification procedures as apart of design framework. • System component design to maximize utilization. • Embedded entropy to be benefited from recycle, reuse, beneficial deposition. 12 Principles of Green Engineering (contd..)
• Targeted for durability rather than immorality
• Oversized capacity and capability to be considered as a design flaw • Design of new systems and processes be integrated with existing energy and material flows • Commercial after life as a design metric • Designs based on renewable and readily available inputs for the whole life cycle • Output pulled system rather than input pulled interms of materials and energy. Goals of Green Chemistry • Minimize by products in chemical transformations • Improve efficiency with low temperature and pressure processes. • Use of less toxic and degradable materials • Use of renewable resources instead of fossils • Processes less prone to explosions, chemical releases and fires • Process monitoring for improved control Energy and Society • Higher GDP, higher living standard, higher energy requirement, higher emissions, greater responsibility. Examples of Green chemistry • Elimination of halon with water based solvent in fire extinguishers • Large scale production of pharmaceutical active ingredients without toxic wastes • Elimination of arsenic in wood preservatives in lumber applications • Eliminates usage of ultra pure ater usage in computer chip manufacturing replaced with liquid CO2 • Replacement of water as solvent in paint products Life cycle reconsideration by engineers • Site development • Product delivery • Infrastructure manufacture • Infrastructure use • Refurbishment • Recycle • Disposal ALL above stages are part of Life cycle which account for environmental performance of product, process or system through all phases from acquisition of raw materials to refining those materials, manufacturing, use and end of life management.