EcoSys{trademark}: An environmental decision support tool
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
There is an increasing interest in environmental trade-offs and impacts of competing processes and products over their life cycle. This interest is based on realization that the true environmental burden associated with a product spans all aspects of a product`s life (e.g., extraction of raw materials, manufacturing, use, and disposal). Environmental decisions are complicated due to the many technical, societal, and regulatory perspectives associated with environmental quality. Because of this complexity, there is a need for environmental decision support tools. EcoSys{trademark} is an environmental information and rule based expert system decision support tool being developed at SNL. The goal is to aid designers, process engineers, managers, and others in making environmentally conscious selections of product design and processes. A demonstration of EcoSys will be presented to document the progress being made in the development of such an environmental decision support tool.
- OSTI ID:
- 458371
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961149--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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