ADOPTION OF SOCIABLE GREEN ENGINEERING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

India is striding ahead to become a world leader in manufacturing of ferrous metals & alloys. Rapid globalization has driven up-gradation to its ultra-modern infra-structure. It has contributed to India’s sustainable industrial growth in auto, infra, mining, petrochemicals, and power sectors. Hence over the decade, its per capita consumption of ferrous products has vastly increased. Existing units of iron and steel manufacturing industries emit the greenhouse gases (GHG) with variable life span with multiple and Global Warming Potential (GWP). These are responsible for the global climate changes. Global Warming & negligence of integrated impact of enviro-scoio-human-economic factors while achieving technological progress has today become the greatest challenge to the human endeavor for its continued and dignified existence on this planet. Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which is multistage knowledge process is one of the ways identified under the KYOTO Protocol, for developed countries to offset their carbon emissions, is fast becoming the preferred way.Moreover, KYOTO protocol based market driven generation, registration, valuation of carbon credit and its subsequent trading leads to penalize the polluting and reward the clean industries. Consequently, authors have attempted to create awareness among the ferrous metal manufacturing industries to minimize the hazardous impact of GHG by investing in modernization of various sections, machineries and process of the integrated plants by discussing a few case studies and methodologies adopted to translate controlling carbon emission into a profit churning venture. Implementing alternative, appropriate, innovative, resource conserving, safe & green technology will lead to sustainable development

Reverse Logistics And Clean Technology Adoption: The Case Of The Steel Industry

Promoting the diffusion of “clean technology” – technology that helps to reduce polluting inputs and processes at the beginning of production, rather than at the “end of the pipe” – is an important step towards more environmentally sustainable production practices.  The use of clean technology coupled with “reverse logistics” practices is particularly effective at reducing environmental impact, and many industries are attempting to move in this direction.   Reverse logistics is the process whereby a manufacturer accepts end products from consumers for possible remanufacturing, recycling, and reuse.  However, the diffusion of clean technology and reverse logistics practices in the economy is not well understood, and there remains a need for case and industry analysis in order to derive theory and to provide possible lessons.  This paper focuses on the core of heavy manufacturing, the steel industry.  Steel producers, particularly the mini-mill sector, have a long history of relative success with various reverse logistics techniques, especially recycling.  Utilizing a qualitative theoretical framework and drawing from extant case and industry data, we document and analyze the adoption and diffusion of clean technology and reverse logistics in the industry

Water Purification and the Industries It Supports

Water Purification and the Industries It Supports Zeljka Zec and KJ Bell Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Ga 30144 Clean and readily available water plays a crucial role in daily societal functions. The dynamic research of water purification involves the process of removing undesired chemical or biological contaminants that affect our use of fresh, consumable water. Depending on desired applications, purification quality is adjusted for use in medical settings, manufacturing, agriculture or personal use in households. Several methods and techniques have been used in the water purification process. Those processes are coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, and filtration. Different chemicals are used in disinfection to improve the taste further and eliminate the protruding odor. Water purification could be a costly process considering the long-term maintenance of the purification plant, time-intensiveness, and possible environmental impact. Minor enhancements need to be implemented to reduce environmental issues that seem inevitable now due to quality control and lack of technological devices

WoodCircus, Underpinning the vital role of the forest-based sector in the Circular Bioeconomy. D2.2 Resource Efficiency, Side Streams and Value Chain Analysis – WP2 Final Report

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Review of Green Jobs

Reviews major studies on the potential for green job creation and summarizes their definitions, strategies, methodologies, key assumptions, and findings. Includes a list of additional reports, articles, and blog posts on green jobs

Growing Ohio's Green Energy Economy

Provides an overview of the state's solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal energy and fuel cell industries and assesses their economic contribution and potential for growth. Recommends policies to encourage further green energy development and job creation

The Clean Air Act Amendments and Firm Investment in Pollution Abatement Equipment

The command-and-control approach to environmental regulation requires that firms install prescribed technologies to meet specified goals. However, environmental regulations change frequently; in addition, the enforcement agency cannot perfectly monitor firm compliance. We examine the impact of uncertainties surrounding the enactment and the enforcement of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 on firm investment in air pollution abatement equipment. We find that our measures of the likelihood of CAAA passage clearly affect a firm's investment in pollution equipment. Enforcement actions also affect a firm's investment, but these effects are weaker and are statistically significant only after enactment

Koch Industries, Inc. Strategie Corporate Research Report

[Excerpt] With its 2005 purchase of paper giant Georgia-Pacific, Koch Industries became the largest privately-held corporation in North America. Originally started as an oil production and refining firm in the first half of the twentieth century, Koch now has major operations in petroleum, chemicals, energy, fibers and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, chemical technology equipment, forest and consumer products, ranching, trading, and securities and finance. The company, based in Wichita, Kansas, employs 80,000 people in sixty countries worldwide. Koch’s oil operations are run primarily through the Flint Hills Resources family of subsidiaries, which has a production capacity of about 800,000 barrels of crude oil daily. Another one of Koch’s major ventures, synthetic textiles, operates through the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, INVISTA, which produces both consumer and commodity textiles. Koch’s newest project, forest and consumer products, operates through Georgia-Pacific, which remains an independent but wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Industries

Analyzing the Potential of Hybrid and Electric Off-Road Equipment in Reducing Carbon Emissions from Construction Industries

This report quantifies the likely impact recent improvements in emissions technology in the heavy construction equipment fleet will have on national and state-level carbon emissions from construction industries. Specific technologies examined in this report include hybrid and electric-powered off-road equipment. Innovation in the equipment manufacturing industry, and adoption of innovative technology by construction firms, is driven by a wide range of factors, some of which can be influenced by public policy. Therefore, this paper describes policies available to public decision makers at the local, state and national levels that impact equipment use and development decisions, including those that encourage the use of green equipment in government procurement, local level job site emissions regulations, and state and nationally mandated emissions standards, fuel taxes, and direct research subsidies

Product Variety, Innovation and Growth

This thesis aims to provide new insights on the different mechanisms that facilitate innovation and their relative importance in driving growth. Innovation is an important engine for economic growth and considerable effort has been devoted in understanding how technical change drives aggregate growth. Most literature in the field has focused on counting patents or survey based work of particular industries, for short samples. In this thesis, we open new avenues for research in firm innovation creating firm level measures that are available for long time series and across all industries (manufacturing and service). We propose three different measures that allow for the identification and classification of firm products, process and product innovations, and clean technologies at the firm level for public and private firms. Furthermore, we propose methods of aggregating these measures at the industry and economy level. We use the newly proposed measures in applications ranging from firm value in corporate finance to aggregate economic impact in macroeconomics. The new proposed measures allow for differentiation across innovation mechanisms that are paramount for setting innovation policy \citep{klenow2019, Hall2011, Atkeson2019}