Life Cycle Assessment Study For Two Different Phenol Production Processes
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2010-11-22Author
Ponkham, Wilaiwan
Kittisupakorn, Paisan
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Phenol is an important raw material in many branches of industry (petrochemical,
pharmaceutical, plastic and pesticidal chemical industry ). This research study on phenol
production processes by using two different phenol production processes which are cumene
oxidation (the Hock process) and toluene oxidation (the Dow process). In order to study in
environmental impacts, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is applied to evaluate environmental
impacts of phenol production processes. Environmental impacts are evaluated according to
cradle-to-gate approach by using SimaPro 7.1 software for Life Cycle Assessment .
Approach by IMPACT 2002+ . The result shows that cumene process is more
environmentally favorable than toluene process.