Optimal waste reduction and investment planning under uncertainty

Ever-changing production campaigns complicate the management of recovery and treatment options for unavoidable effluents at pharmaceutical plants. Each campaign produces large amounts of by-products differing in their number, amount as well as composition. Future business strategies designed to address changing market demands add uncertainty to this already challenging design problem. In such a dynamic and uncertain environment, the selection of operating policies as well as decisions to support future business operations by plant investments such as new reactors and separators is a formidable task. This paper will propose a systematic methodology for long-range, site-wide management strategies for batch manufacturing sites. Rigorous modeling of future regulatory changes will allow decision-makers to anticipate the monetary, infrastructural and ecological impact such new legislation may have on their businesses at a specific sites or an entire regions. The methodology will be illustra...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2004
• Where: CCE
• Authors: Aninda Chakraborty, Andres Malcolm, Richard D. Colberg, Andreas A. Linninger
• Keywords: CCE 2004, CCE 2007, Ever-changing Production Campaigns, Future Business, Future Business Strategies