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4 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN ENERGY RESEARCH (ICAER 2013)
卷 54, 期 -, 页码 127-134出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.07.255
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Cleaner production; Sustainability; Fuzzy logic; Agro-based industries; cashew processing
Cleaner Production (CP) is a preventive environmental strategy and across the globe there are plenty of success stories of its initiatives which have not successfully transcended to realize the fruits. In this context, there is a need to promote CP initiative to help the industry, society and environment. Hence, present level of CP is to be assessed which facilitates exploring the potential for further CP. This underscores the need for developing a methodology to estimate the CP level. Generalizing the evaluation of assessment of CP is difficult due to heterogeneous nature of operations in industries. The application of fuzzy logic assists in addressing this complexity by offering a methodology that can be adapted to any type of organization by identifying the appropriate variables. This paper presents a model developed to assess the CP status and implementation of this model on 22 cashew processing units. In the assessment of CP level, contributing parameters viz., process efficiency, environmental degradation, and sustainability aspects are considered. Various dimensions of each contributing parameter is identified and measured in the overall estimation of CP level. The result of the study has useful policy implications for catalyzing the CP initiatives. (c) 2014 K.M. Basappaji. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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