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The Physical Properties Management System (PPMS™): A P2 Engineering Aid to Support Process Design and Analysis
EPA Grant Number: R825370C064Subproject: this is subproject number 064 , established and managed by the Center Director under grant R825370
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
Center: EERC - National Center for Clean Industrial and Treatment Technologies (CenCITT)
Center Director: Crittenden, John C.
Title: The Physical Properties Management System (PPMS™): A P2 Engineering Aid to Support Process Design and Analysis
Investigators: Rogers, Tony N. , Kline, Andrew A.
Institution: Michigan Technological University
EPA Project Officer: Karn, Barbara
Project Period: January 1, 1997 through January 1, 1998
RFA: Exploratory Environmental Research Centers (1992)
Research Category: Center for Clean Industrial and Treatment Technologies (CenCITT) , Targeted Research
Description:
Objective:This project continues to be the primary physical and chemical property resource for CPAS tools. The project provides supporting consultation and data resources on an as-needed basis. Results are available through a stand-alone tool called "Software to Estimate Physical Properties" (StEPP), which is being extended to a second version, "StEPP2," in this project.
The project also facilitates data exchange between various other CPAS tools. Ultimately, the goal is to create a general software-based data delivery system that will serve as an expandable framework for adding property estimation algorithms and third party-generated data resources.
Approach:The first-generation version of the software being developed under CPAS, called StEPP Version 1.0, has already been designed to provide data support to the Adsorption Design Software (AdDesignS) and Aeration Systems Analysis Program (ASAP) modules under the Environmental Technologies Design Option Tool (ETDOT) initiative led by Dr. David Hand of MTU. StEPP, an acronym for "Software to Estimate Physical Properties," will ultimately link to every other tool and module within CPAS that needs data for its calculations. Many of the CPAS tool development efforts now underway rely on a working, expanded StEPP program for their development, testing, and release. StEPP will also have value, apart from CPAS support, as a stand-alone program that efficiently and rapidly supplies engineers, scientists, and process designers with necessary physical property data.
To support the Adsorption for Recovery (AdRecover) and Multi-Component Distillation (MC-Dist) modules, StEPP2 (an updated version of the original StEPP program) will be linked to provide vapor pressures, activity coefficients, and Henry's constants for relative volatility calculations. StEPP2 also includes chemical, physical, and environmental reactivity data that will be useful in computing design comparison indices in the Environmental Fate and Risk Assessment Tool (EFRAT) being developed by Dr. David Shonnard.
The StEPP2 project team has supported the data requirements of the AdDesignS, ASAP, AdRecover, MC-Dist and EFRAT development projects throughout the project's existence. Data exchange has been promoted between the various CPAS tools, facilitating rapid evaluation of "clean" process designs.
The StEPP2 module under development will also feature stand-alone data display. Data sources for StEPP2 include tables of discrete data from AIChE/DIPPR Project 801, as well as data calculation and extrapolation methods, with a broad capability that includes infinite dilution thermodynamics, polarizability estimates, phase equilibrium algorithms, and transport properties. Among the pure component properties available in StEPP2 are: vapor pressure, molar volume at the normal boiling point, liquid density, activity coefficient, Henry's law constant, aqueous solubility, octanol-water partition coefficient, soil-water partition coefficient, and partitioning onto the organic carbon portion of biomass. The extent of use of DIPPR Project 801 data within StEPP2 is limited and conforms to licensing agreements between CenCITT and DIPPR.
Beta Version 2.0 of StEPP is nearing completion as the primary physical property
server for CPAS. It will have the following features:
· Generic protocol for data delivery/export (export feature is now working
and needs to be expanded to specific CPAS modules)
· On-line Help system (almost completed, being examined for errors)
· Fill database gaps with estimated values (ongoing)
· Test structure disassembly from SMILES (MOSDAP, "Molecular Structure
Disassembly Program", completed; UNIFAC, Hine & Mookerjee, Lydersen,
and Benson groups will be supported)
· Incorporate group contribution vapor pressure module developed by Andrew
Loll, M.S. Graduate
· Database scrutiny (Statistical Quality Control, SQC, data checking
to proceed through Spring 2000)
· Partial licensing of AIChE/DIPPR data for incorporation within StEPP2
· Supply physical property needs of the ETDOTs, EFRAT, and other CPAS
modules (ongoing)
Physical and chemical property measurements and estimations are central to virtually all environmental assessment and process design decisions. Despite the importance of property data, expertise in physical and chemical properties tends to be a specialization beyond the capabilities of most process and product designers. By being closely aligned with the Physical Property and Thermodynamics Research Group (P2TRG) in the MTU Chemical Engineering Department, this project is epected to continue to insure that this expertise is available and becomes incorporated into CPAS tools. The P2TRG also conducts two programs dealing with chemicals of environmental interest for the Design Institute for Physical Property Data (DIPPR®) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
Publications and Presentations:Publications have been submitted on this subproject: View all 7 publications for this subproject | View all 155 publications for this center
Journal Articles:Journal Articles have been submitted on this subproject: View all 5 journal articles for this subproject | View all 35 journal articles for this center
Supplemental Keywords:Computing technology, technology for sustainable environment, environmental chemistry, chemical properties, physical property data, clean technology, environmental engineering, risk assessment, chemical processing, environmental assessment, process design, thermodynamics. , Ecosystem Protection/Environmental Exposure & Risk, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, Sustainable Industry/Business, Scientific Discipline, RFA, Technology for Sustainable Environment, Sustainable Environment, computing technology, Environmental Engineering, cleaner production/pollution prevention, Economics and Business, pollution prevention, information technology, process modification, clean technology, industrial design for environment, chemical processing, cleaner production, in-process changes, green design, environmental fate and risk assessment tool (EFRAT), pollution prevention design tool, computer science, in-process waste minimization, environmentally conscious manufacturing, outreach and education, industrial process design, industrial innovations, industrial process, Environmental Technologies Design Options Tool (EDOT), chemical properties tool, CPAS, physico-chemical properties, innovative technology, environmentally conscious design, chemical manufacturing, Clean Process Advisory System (CPAS), green technology
Progress and Final Reports:
1998 Progress Report
1999 Progress Report
Main Center Abstract and Reports:
R825370 EERC - National Center for Clean Industrial and Treatment Technologies (CenCITT)
Subprojects under this Center:
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
R825370C032 Means for Producing an Entirely New Generation of Lignin-Based Plastics
R825370C042 Environmentally Conscious Design for Construction
R825370C046 Clean Process Advisory System (CPAS) Core Activities
R825370C048 Investigation of the Partial Oxidation of Methane to Methanol in a Simulated Countercurrent Moving Bed Reactor
R825370C054 Predictive Tool for Ultrafiltration Performance
R825370C055 Heuristic Reactor Design for Clean Synthesis and Processing - Separative Reactors
R825370C056 Characterization of Selective Solid Acid Catalysts Towards the Rational Design of Catalytic Reactions
R825370C057 Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing: Prediction of Processing Waste Streams for Discrete Products
R825370C064 The Physical Properties Management System (PPMS™): A P2 Engineering Aid to Support Process Design and Analysis
R825370C065 Development and Testing of Pollution Prevention Design Aids for Process Analysis and Decision Making
R825370C066 Design Tools for Chemical Process Safety: Accident Probability
R825370C067 Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing: Design for Disassembly (DFD) in De-Manufacturing of Products
R825370C068 An Economic Comparison of Wet and Dry Machining
R825370C069 In-Line Copper Recovery Technology
R825370C070 Selective Catalytic Hydrogenation of Lactic Acid
R825370C071 Biosynthesis of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Polymers from Industrial Wastewater
R825370C072 Tin Zeolites for Partial Oxidation Catalysis
R825370C073 Development of a High Performance Photocatalytic Reactor System for the Production of Methanol from Methane in the Gas Phase
R825370C074 Recovery of Waste Polymer Generated by Lost Foam Technology in the Metal Casting Industry
R825370C075 Industrial Implementation of the P2 Framework
R825370C076 Establishing Automated Linkages Between Existing P2-Related Software Design Tools
R825370C077 Integrated Applications of the Clean Process Advisory System to P2-Conscious Process Analysis and Improvement
R825370C078 Development of Environmental Indices for Green Chemical Production and Use