Green Chemical and Energy Technologies Class

Websites identified in the 2007, 2009 and 2011 offerings of the course -- by the instructor and by students -- often using the delicious and diigo social bookmarking systems.

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.

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.

General Resources that May Cover Multiple Topics of the Course

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.

Green Design Reading Group, Carnegie Mellon University
See what a large group of graduate students interested in sustainability were reading (up til 2008 -- which appears to be the last update). Downloadable PDFs of most of the articles. See "article archives"

Online course in LCA and GHG Inventories
at Open University of Australia
http://www.open.edu.au/courses/science/murdoch-university-greenhouse-accounting-and-life-cycle-assessment--eenv597-2011

Table of Contents of Allen and Shonnard Green Engineering book
http://www.epa.gov/oppt/greenengineering/pubs/textbook_contents.html#PartI

EPA Green Engineering Software
The software listed below is intended to provide academia and industry a compilation of risk assessment software tools used by EPA, such as those for risk screening, hazard, exposure, and fate estimation.

Dot Earth blog
New York Times blog on Natural Resources and the Environment http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/

Environmental News Network
http://www.enn.com/

Principles of Sustainability, Green Engineering, Green Chemistry, and Green Design (PRIN)

EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics
http://www.epa.gov/oppt/

Grand Challenges in Engineering

Grand Challenges in the Environmental Sciences

Sustainability in the Chemical Industries - Grand Challenges
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11437

Center for Sustainable Engineering

AICHE Institute for Sustainability

AICHE Environmental Division

AICHE Sustainable Engineering Forum



Basics of Conventional and Renewable Energy, Renewable Fuels, and Transporation Energy (EN, REN, TRAN, and BIO)

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

Statistical Review of World Energy 2012 | BP
BP Review Document / Website

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.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/pdf/aer.pdf

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

U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and Analysis
Major source for U.S. Energy Statistics
 
Energy Links from an online course
http://www.open.ac.uk/T206/Weblinks/T206links.htm

Cornucopian versus Limitist Environmental Philosophies (PHI)

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, Stratospheric Ozone, and Atmospheric Chemistry - Web Resources and Data Sources (STRAT and other classes)

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

2010 update to 20 Questions and Answers about the Ozone Layer
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/assessments/ozone/2010/twentyquestions/

2010 update to the "20 Questions and Answers about the Ozone Layer".

ESRL Global Monitoring Division- The NOAA Ozone Depleting Gas Index
These measurements update the article on ozone depleting chemicals in the atmosphere.
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/odgi/

Greenhouse Gas Inventories (GHG)

WRI Greenhouse Gas Protocol
The main blueprint for GHG inventories used in the GCET course
http://www.ghgprotocol.org/

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


EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
http://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting/index.html

API Greenhouse Gas Emissions Compendium
http://www.api.org/ehs/climate/new/upload/2009_ghg_compendium.pdf

Citywide Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories: A Review of Selected Methodologies | World Resources Institute
http://www.wri.org/publication/citywide-transportation-greenhouse-gas-emissions-inventories

U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory - Call for Information on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with Bioenergy and Other Biogenic Sources | Climate Change - Greenhouse Gas Emissions | U.S. EPA
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/biogenic-emissions.html

EPA Center for Corporate Climate Leadership

Per capita CO2 emissions by country

Green Chemistry and Alternative Solvents (CHEM)

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

ACS Magazine Special Issue on Ionic Liquids

ACS (American Chemical Society) webpage collecting several articles on the topic
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/greenchemistry.html

You tube explainer on Ionic Liquids
animations explaining the ionic liquids in non-specialist terms

Chemical and Physical Property Estimation (PROP)

U.S. EPA QSAR and Expert System Tools for Predicting Toxicity
2007 EPA powerpoint presentation on predictive toxicology using QSAR, but Tala Henry

Introduction to the European REACH system for chemical registration

EPA Episuite Software
A structure activity estimation software

ECOSAR website
A structure activity estimation software

Tier 1 and Tier 2 Environmental Analysis (TIER1, TIER2)

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

Emissions Factors & AP 42 | Clearinghouse for Emission Inventories and Emissions Factors | Technology Transfer Network | US EPA
http://www.epa.gov/ttnchie1/ap42/

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

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

BASF website on ecoefficiency analysis

Swiss center for life cycle inventories

Pollution Prevention and Energy Efficiency in the Process Industries (PP)

Industrial Technologies Program: BestPractices
Industrial energy auditing tool, DOE

Short you tube explanation of a variable frequency drive for an AC motor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ-QZ54wHso

Unit Operations in Food Processing (online book and example calcs)
http://www.nzifst.org.nz/unitoperations/drying1.htm

Process Heating Sourcebook for Industry
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/manufacturing/tech_deployment/pdfs/process_heating_sourcebook2.pdf

7 ways to optimize a process heating system
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/manufacturing/tech_deployment/pdfs/em_proheat_seven.pdf

From shop floor to top floor: best practices in energy efficiency
2010 report from the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

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

 

Climate and Energy Policy (CLIM, IPCC, and POL)

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

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.

The Climate Registry A GHG "club" with associated calculation tools
U used by UI alumnus Kelsey Coulter while working at Barr Engineering, a consulting firm that does GHG accounting. Barr also uses WRI tools and the EPA GHG reporting tools recommended in this class.
Texas Climate News

Texas Climate Initiative

Real Climate
blog by climate scientists about climate science and climate policy

 

 

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

Critical Materials for High Technology Environmental Applications (RRE)

DOE Critical Materials Strategy
http://energy.gov/pi/office-policy-and-international-affairs/initiatives/department-energy-s-critical-materials
 

 

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