Aleissa & Bakshi (2023): Simulation tools for net-positive process design – Trees as unit operations for carbon sequestration and air quality regulation
Yazeed M. Aleissa, Bhavik R. Bakshi IN: Computers & Chemical Engineering 179, 108455, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2023.108455
This work focuses on integrating vegetation as unit operations in process design to remove air pollutants and sequester carbon. The authors developed a practitioner-friendly simulation module in CHEMCAD that utilizes sophisticated rural and urban forestry models developed by the online i-Tree assessment tool. The authors demonstrate the module through a power plant case study and highlight some alternative spatially explicit integrated designs that are environmentally and economically superior.