ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

CLEANER
PRODUCTION

Eddison Herrera Comas 2018-0045

Adonis Naut Fernández 2018-0840
 01 What is cleaner production

CONTENTS 02 Benefits of Cleaner Production

03 Obstacles to Cleaner Production

04 Cleaner Production Techniques

05 CP Opportunity Assessment
What is cleaner production?
The United Nations Environment Program defines cleaner
production as “the continuous application of an integrated,
preventative environmental strategy to processes, products and
services to increase eco-efficiency and reduce risks to humans and
the environment”
 Characteristics

Strategy

preventive

Risk reduction

It’s a rethinking for products, processes and

services to move towards sustainable
Cleaner production development.
Purpose of cleaner production

Cleaner production focuses on conservation of natural resources such as

water, energy and raw materials and avoids the end-of-pipe treatment.
Benefits of
Cleaner
Production
 03 01
Reduce raw Reduce waste
05
Improve public material cost. disposal cost.
relations/image.

04
Improve companies
performance 02
Reduce Health Safety
Environment (HSE)
damage cost
Air and water pollution
Solid and liquid wastes Landscape degradation
Obstacles to Cleaner Production

Trained personnel Plant locations Cost Attitude problems

Get personnel with a Production plant may Funding environmental Two major attitude
potential value and be in an affordable projects may cost problems that present
skills in waste topics. location. more than the others. obstacles to an even
more widespread
realization of cleaner
production.
Cleaner Production Techniques
Cleaner
production
techniques

Product
Reduction Recycling
modification
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Process Process Technology Raw material

control modifications change change
 CP Opportunity Assessment
Forming a cleaner
production team Team

01
Determine the relationship
Surrounding
with the surrounding
environment
environment
03 Pre-audit
The audit team request all
List process steps with
process flow diagram
Inputs and 02 available information
outputs

05 Operations and
processes Understand the operations

04 and processes.
 CP Opportunity Assessment
Identify wasteful process Wasteful
with cause analysis processes

06
Develop CP opportunities
according to cleaner Opportunities
production techniques
08 Material and
energy balance
Analysis of process steps with
Prepare for implementation
through operator’s involvement Implementation
07 material and energy balance

and management commitment

10
Priorities
Select CP solutions

09 according to:
– Technical feasibilities
– Economic feasibility
– Environmental aspects
– Social aspects.
 CP Opportunity Assessment

03
02
01 Sustainable
development
Process
sustainability
Assessment

Go back to re-identify
another wasteful process
Maintain cleaner
and continue.
production.
Monitor and evaluate
results.
Thank You