CN118451433A - Distribution of environmental attributes in a production network - Google Patents
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Methods, apparatus, and systems for producing at least one chemical product associated with one or more environmental attributes and for assigning at least one environmental attribute to at least one chemical product produced by a chemical production network are disclosed.
Description
Technical Field
The present disclosure relates to methods, apparatus, and systems for producing at least one chemical product associated with one or more environmental attributes and for assigning at least one environmental attribute to at least one chemical product produced by a chemical production network.
Background
In the supply chain, the environmental impact of each supply chain participant is of great interest. Transparency between participants can help focus on reducing environmental impact to combat climate change. However, data sharing of environmental impact data is hampered by the lack of common data standards and the lack of trusted data platforms. In addition, the highly specific and centralized setting of today's data systems makes exchange and sharing for collective actions laborious. Therefore, there is a need to develop metrics that quantify the environmental impact of the produced product to simplify the data standards related to environmental impact and to widely enable secure exchange of supply chain data related to environmental impact.
Disclosure of Invention
In one aspect, a method for producing at least one chemical product associated with one or more environmental attributes, wherein the chemical product is produced by a chemical production network, the method comprising:
providing one or more input materials associated with one or more environmental attributes to a chemical production network,
Providing at least one balance account associated with one or more environmental attributes of one or more input materials provided to the chemical production network,
-The production of at least one chemical product,
Providing an identifier associated with the chemical product,
-Assigning at least one environmental attribute from at least one balance account associated with the respective environmental attribute to at least one chemical product, wherein the environmental attribute from the balance account is assigned to an identifier associated with the chemical product.
In another aspect, a method for assigning at least one environmental attribute to at least one chemical product produced by a chemical production network, the method comprising:
Providing at least one balance account associated with one or more environmental attributes and an account balance associated with one or more environmental attributes from one or more input materials provided to the chemical production network,
-Providing an identifier associated with the chemical product.
-Assigning at least one environmental attribute from at least one balance account associated with the respective environmental attribute to at least one chemical product, wherein the environmental attribute from the balance account is assigned to the identifier.
In another aspect, an apparatus for assigning at least one environmental attribute to at least one chemical product produced by a chemical production network, the method comprising:
a billing system configured to provide at least one balance account associated with one or more environmental attributes and an account balance associated with one or more environmental attributes from one or more input materials provided to the chemical production network,
An identifier provider configured to provide an identifier associated with the chemical product,
-A dispenser configured to assign at least one environmental attribute from at least one balance account associated with a respective environmental attribute to at least one chemical product, wherein the environmental attribute from the balance account is assigned to an identifier associated with the chemical product.
In another aspect, a system for producing at least one chemical product associated with one or more environmental attributes, wherein the chemical product is produced by a chemical production network, the system comprising:
-a chemical production network configured to produce at least one chemical product based on one or more input materials provided to the chemical production network, wherein the one or more input materials are associated with one or more environmental attributes;
A billing system configured to provide at least one balance account associated with one or more environmental attributes of one or more input materials provided to the chemical production network,
An identifier provider configured to provide an identifier associated with the chemical product,
-A dispenser configured to assign at least one environmental attribute from at least one balance account associated with a respective environmental attribute to at least one chemical product, wherein the environmental attribute from the balance account is assigned to an identifier associated with the chemical product.
In yet another aspect, a computer element, in particular a computer program product or a computer readable medium, is disclosed having instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, are configured to perform the steps of any of the methods disclosed herein. In yet another aspect, a computer element, particularly a computer program product or computer-readable medium, is disclosed having instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause any of the apparatus disclosed herein to perform any of the methods disclosed herein.
In yet another aspect, use of a chemical product associated with one or more environmental attributes provided by any of the methods disclosed herein and/or a chemical product produced by a chemical production network provided by any of the methods disclosed herein for producing at least one discrete product or at least one end product associated with one or more environmental attributes is disclosed. The at least one discrete product or the at least one final product may be an intermediate product or a final product of a product supply chain. The at least one discrete product or the at least one final product may be based on one or more target materials. At least one discrete product or at least one final product may be produced by discrete manufacturing. In yet another aspect, a method for producing at least one discrete product or at least one end product associated with one or more environmental attributes is disclosed, wherein at least one discrete product or at least one end product associated with one or more environmental attributes is provided and/or produced using a chemical product associated with one or more environmental attributes provided by any of the methods disclosed herein and/or a chemical product produced by a chemical production network provided by any of the methods disclosed herein.
In yet another aspect, use of one or more environmental attributes assigned to a chemical product identifier as provided by any of the methods disclosed herein for providing at least one discrete product identifier associated with at least one discrete product or at least one end product identifier that correlates at least one end product with one or more environmental attributes is disclosed. In yet another aspect, a method for providing at least one discrete product identifier relating at least one discrete product to one or more environmental attributes or at least one end product identifier relating at least one end product to one or more environmental attributes is disclosed, wherein one or more environmental attributes assigned to a chemical product identifier as provided by any of the methods disclosed herein are provided and/or used to provide at least one discrete product identifier relating at least one discrete product to one or more environmental attributes or at least one end product identifier relating at least one end product to one or more environmental attributes.
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Any of the disclosure and embodiments described herein relate to the methods, apparatus, computer elements, and uses listed above or below and vice versa. The benefits provided by any of the embodiments and examples apply equally to all other embodiments and examples and vice versa.
Any of the steps set forth herein may be performed in any order. The methods disclosed herein are not limited to a particular order of these steps. Nor is it necessary to perform the different steps at a particular location in the distributed system or in a particular computing node, i.e. each step may be performed at a different computing node using different equipment/data processing.
As used herein, "determining" also includes "initiating or causing a determination," generating "also includes" initiating and/or causing a generation, "and" providing "also includes" initiating or causing a determination, generating, selecting, transmitting, and/or receiving. "initiate or cause an action to be performed" includes any processing signal that triggers a computing node or device to perform the corresponding action.
The methods, apparatus, systems, and computer elements disclosed herein provide an efficient way to track environmental attributes in chemical processes and provide chemical products with positive environmental impact through the value chain. By using the identifier concept, environmental attributes associated with input materials can be efficiently assigned to chemical products produced in a chemical production network. Particularly for chemical networks that produce more than one chemical product from more than one input material via interconnected, connected, and unconnected production chains, the use of the identifier concept for chemical products allows for reliable allocation of environmental attributes according to the physical settings of the chemical production network. This further allows to eliminate the complexity of the material flow of the chemical production network, while still allowing to assign environmental influences to the chemical products. In this way, the environmental impact of the chemical product being produced can be determined based on the physical settings of the chemical production network. Furthermore, the environmental properties of chemical products produced by a chemical production network may be made transparent to customers who further process the chemical products. By providing a chemical product identifier or a chemical product identifier and an environmental attribute identifier associated with at least one environmental attribute, the environmental attribute may even be adjusted according to customer needs.
Environmental attributes may refer to properties or characteristics related to environmental impact. Such a property may be a property or feature of the input material or chemical product. The environmental attribute may be indicative of environmental performance of one or more materials. Environmental attributes may be generated by the nature of the input material, the chemical production network, and/or the target material. The environmental attribute may be associated with an environmental impact of one or more materials at any stage during the life cycle. The stages of the material or product lifecycle may include any subset of stages or stages of providing a raw material, producing a product (such as an intermediate product or a final product), using a product, disposing of an end-of-life product, recycling an end-of-life product, disposing of an end-of-life product, recycling components from an end-of-life product. The environmental attributes may be specified or generated from any activity of one or more entities engaged in any stage of the lifecycle of one or more materials or products.
Environmental attributes may include one or more characteristics attributable to the environmental or sustainability impact of a material or product. Environmental attributes may include environmental, technical, recyclability, recycling or supplemental risk features, features associated with environmental impact of one or more materials or products.
Environmental characteristics may specify or quantify ecological criteria associated with product environmental impact. The environmental characteristic may be or may be generated or derived from measurements made during the lifecycle of one or more products. Environmental characteristics may be determined at any stage of the product lifecycle and may characterize the environmental impact of such stages or products up to such stages. Environmental characteristics may include, for example, impact categories such as carbon footprint, greenhouse gas emissions or global warming potential, primary energy demand, accumulated energy demand, biological and non-biological resource consumption, air emissions, stratospheric ozone depletion potential, ozone formation, land and/or sea acidification, water consumption, water depletion, water availability, water pollution, noise pollution, fresh water and/or sea eutrophication potential, human carcinogenic and/or non-carcinogenic toxicity, photochemical oxidant formation, particulate matter formation, land, fresh water and/or sea ecotoxicity, ionizing radiation, agricultural and/or urban land occupation, land conversion, land utilization, indirect land utilization, harvesting, biodiversity, mineral resource consumption, fossil resource consumption. The environmental features may be calculated from a combination of one or more environmental features. Environmental characteristics may include, for example, products or material characteristics associated with the production of the material or product, such as renewable, biobased, vegetarian, islamic meat, following the kohlrabi diet, free of palm oil, natural, etc.
Technical features may specify or quantify product properties that are at least indirectly associated with environmental impact. The technical feature may be or may result from measurements made during the lifecycle of one or more products. The technical features may be determined at any stage of the product lifecycle and may characterize the product performance at or up to such stage. Technical features may include, for example, product composition data, in-process inputs, bill of materials, product specification data, product part data, product security data, application property data, application instructions, or product quality data. Technical features may for example include physical, chemical or other properties of the material or product.
The cyclic features may specify or quantify product lifecycle features associated with the recycling. The cyclical property may be or may result from measurements taken during the lifecycle of one or more products. The cyclical feature may be or may be generated from cyclical data recorded in one or more previous lifecycles (including reuse). The cyclical characteristics may be determined at any stage of the lifecycle and may characterize such stage or the recycling or recovery performance up to such stage. The cyclic features may relate to technical, mechanical, chemical and/or biological recovery. The recycling characteristics may include, for example, recycling information, recycling rate, recovery rate, recycling loops, durability, utility during the use phase, destination after use, recycled product performance, recycled product quality, etc. Further cyclic material characteristics can be obtained by combining the cyclic characteristics.
The recyclability feature may specify or quantify product lifecycle features associated with recycling. The recyclability feature may include the composition of the material, including specially tailored ingredients that adapt the material for recycling. The recyclability characteristic may be or may result from a measurement made during the life cycle of one or more materials or products. The recyclability feature may be or be generated from recycling data recorded during one or more previous lifecycles. The recyclability characteristics may be determined at any stage of the material or product lifecycle, and may characterize the recycling performance at or up to such stage. The recyclability characteristics may include, for example, recycling data, recyclability data, recycling efficiency, and the like.
The supplemental risk features may specify or quantify features associated with further sustainability-related risks associated with the product at all stages. Supplemental risk features may include compliance with legal and/or voluntary standards, compliance with human rights statements, reporting sustainability development goals, and the like. Supplemental risk features may include material price changes, supply risk, stale risk, food contact compatibility, and the like.
Chemical production networks may include multiple types of production processes for producing different chemical products from an input material. Chemical production networks may include complex production networks that produce a variety of chemical products in multiple production chains.
The chemical production network may include connected, interconnected, and/or unconnected production chains. Chemical production networks can produce a variety of intermediates from input materials and chemical products from the intermediates. The input material may enter the chemical production network at an entry point. The chemical product may leave the production network at an exit point.
The chemical production network may include one or more entry points where the input material is provided to the chemical production network. The input material may include fossil material, non-fossil material, or both. The fossil input material may include crude oil, natural gas, coal, or derivatives thereof. The non-fossil input material may include renewable materials, bio-based materials, or recycled materials. The input material may include a feedstock for a gasification unit, a steam cracker, or a syngas unit. The input material may include syngas produced from fossil feedstock, non-fossil feedstock, or both. The input material may include, for example, pyrolysis oil from recycled waste, synthesis gas produced from recycled waste, naphtha produced from bio-based materials, methane from bio-based materials, or a combination thereof. The input material may be provided to at least one gasification unit, steam cracker or synthesis gas unit, or any unit of the production train of downstream products such as nitrogen, ammonia, methanol, ethylene, propylene, sulfur, etc. The input material may include intermediate chemical products produced elsewhere with fossil and/or non-fossil input materials. The input material may include organic materials having mineral origin, salts, metals, glass, and the like.
The input material associated with one or more environmental attributes provided to the entry point of the chemical production network may include recovered input material including, but not limited to, recovered pyrolysis oil, recovered pyrolysis gas, recovered syngas, recovered hydrogen, recovered naphtha, recovered methane, recovered ethane, recovered propane, recovered chemicals, or a combination thereof. The recovered chemicals may include, but may not be limited to, recovered ammonia, recovered methanol, recovered ethylene, recovered propylene, recovered benzene, recovered toluene, recovered xylenes, or a combination thereof. The recovered chemicals may include, but may not be limited to, recovered polymers, recovered oligomers, recovered monomers, or combinations thereof. In the context provided herein, recycled input material may include any material that at least partially includes recycled content and/or that is at least partially produced from recycled content. The recovered contents may be, but need not be, physically and/or chemically traceable.
The input material associated with one or more environmental attributes provided to the entry point of the chemical production network may include renewable input materials including, but not limited to, renewable pyrolysis oil, renewable pyrolysis gas, renewable syngas, renewable hydrogen, renewable naphtha, renewable methane, renewable ethane, renewable propane, renewable chemicals, or combinations thereof. Renewable chemicals may include, but are not limited to, renewable ammonia, renewable methanol, renewable ethylene, renewable propylene, renewable benzene, renewable toluene, renewable xylenes, or combinations thereof. Renewable chemicals may include, but are not limited to, renewable polymers, renewable oligomers, recycled monomers, or combinations thereof. In the context provided herein, renewable input materials may include any material that at least partially includes renewable content and/or that is at least partially produced from renewable content. The renewable content may be, but need not be, physically and/or chemically traceable.
The input material associated with one or more environmental attributes provided to the entry point of the chemical production network may include bio-based input materials including, but not limited to, bio-based pyrolysis oil, bio-based pyrolysis gas, bio-based syngas, bio-based hydrogen, bio-based naphtha, bio-based methane, bio-based ethane, bio-based propane, bio-based chemicals, or combinations thereof. The bio-based chemicals may include, but may not be limited to, bio-based ammonia, bio-based methanol, bio-based ethylene, bio-based propylene, bio-based benzene, bio-based toluene, bio-based xylene, or combinations thereof. The bio-based chemical may include, but is not limited to, bio-based polymers, bio-based oligomers, bio-based monomers, or combinations thereof. In the context provided herein, a bio-based input material may include any material that at least partially includes and/or is at least partially produced from bio-based content. The bio-based content may be, but is not necessarily, physically and/or chemically traceable.
Chemical production networks may include identity preserving or separate production processes. In this context, identity preservation or separation may refer to the environmental properties of the input material that are preserved or separated in the production chain. Examples are bio-based renewable or recycled input materials for producing chemical products free of fossil content. Other examples are fossil input materials for producing chemical products with fossil content. The chemical production network may include a non-identity preserving or non-separate production chain. In this context, non-identity preserving or non-separating may refer to the environmental properties of the input materials mixed in the production chain. For example, in the context of non-identity preserving or non-separating refers to the environmental properties of the input material mixed with fossil input material in the production chain. Examples are fossil and renewable input materials that mix to produce chemical products having fossil and renewable content.
The chemical production network may include a plurality of production steps for one or more production chains. The production steps included in the chemical network may be defined by physical system boundaries of the chemical production network. The system boundaries may be defined by location or control of the production process. The system boundaries may be defined by sites of a chemical production network. The system boundary may be defined by a production process commonly controlled by one entity or multiple entities. The system boundaries may be defined by a value chain with interleaved production processes of the end product, which may be controlled by multiple entities, respectively. The chemical production network may include a waste collection step, a waste sorting step, a recovery step (such as by pyrolysis chemical recovery), a cracking step (such as steam cracking), a separation step that separates the outputs of one process step, and other processing steps that convert such outputs into chemical products to exit the system boundaries of the chemical production network. The entry point of the chemical production network may be marked by entry of the input material into the chemical production network. Input materials into a chemical production network may be used to produce one or more chemical products. Chemical products may leave the physical system boundaries of the chemical production network. The exit point of the chemical production network may be marked by the exit of the chemical product from the chemical production network.
A virtual balance account may refer to a digital storage structure that stores data related to environmental attributes. The account may be associated with metadata that identifies the account for balancing the environmental attribute. An account may be associated with metadata that identifies the environmental attributes and environmental elements assigned to the account. The account may be associated with metadata that identifies a production chain with which the account is associated. The account may be associated with metadata that identifies the input or target material with which the account is associated. The account may be part of a balance system that includes a plurality of accounts. The account may hold environmental attributes of the transaction. Environmental attributes may be assigned, added, deleted, withdrawn, or deducted from an account. The virtual balance account may be associated with an environmental attribute type (such as reclaimed or renewable). The virtual balance account may be associated with an input material type (such as pyrolysis oil, bio-naphtha, bio-methane, or a combination thereof). The virtual balance account associated with the recycled environmental attribute type may also be associated with a waste stream type such as mixed plastic waste, specific end product waste (e.g., layered waste or foam waste), post-consumer waste, pre-consumer waste, or a combination thereof. The virtual balance account may be associated with an assignment scheme such as a separate assignment, a non-separate assignment (e.g., a certificate transaction (book and clamp)), a mass balance with free attribution, a mass balance without free attribution, or a combination thereof.
The chemical product may be produced by a chemical production network that is provided with input materials associated with one or more environmental attributes. The chemical product may be produced by a production chain of a chemical production network that is provided with input materials associated with one or more environmental attributes. The chemical product may be produced from an input material associated with one or more environmental attributes.
The identifier associated with the chemical product may include one or more identifiers related to the chemical product. The identifier may relate to a chemical product category, a particular chemical product, and/or a property of the chemical product (such as an environmental property). The identifier may include a unique number uniquely associated with the chemical product category, the particular chemical product, and/or the nature of the chemical product. The identifier may include one or more specific identifiers, such as a chemical product category identifier, a specific chemical product identifier, and/or a property of a chemical product identifier. This particular identity may be uniquely linked to the chemical product. For example, one or more property identifiers may be uniquely linked to a chemical product identifier. The chemical product identifier may be uniquely linked to a particular chemical product. In this way, the chemical product may be uniquely linked to the digital twinning of the chemical product, thereby specifying the particular properties of the chemical product.
The identifier associated with the chemical product may include one or more identifiers related to one or more environmental attributes. The identifier may include an environmental attribute identifier, such as a unique environmental attribute identifier, associated with an environmental attribute that may be assigned to the chemical product. The environment attribute identifier may relate to a chemical product category or a particular chemical product. For example, the environmental attribute identifier may relate to recycled content, bio-based content, and/or renewable content as environmental attributes, each having their own unique material identifier. The particular environmental attribute or particular combination of environmental attributes may be associated with a unique environmental attribute identifier.
The identifier may include, be linked to, or relate to a lot number and/or an order number (such as a unique lot number and/or order number). The lot number may be linked to a physical entity of the chemical product lot being produced. The order number may be linked to a transaction specifying shipment of the chemical product batch from the producer of the chemical product to a user who further processes the chemical product.
In one embodiment, the identifier is a chemical product identifier associated with a chemical product category and/or a particular chemical product that includes one or more environmental attributes. The identifier may include a chemical category identifier, such as a unique category identifier, associated with the chemical product category. The chemical product categories may include chemical products grouped into chemical product categories. One class of chemical products (also referred to as a chemical product class) may include a broad specification class containing a particular chemical product. The category of chemical product may be associated with a unique category identifier (e.g., a unique category number or other type of unique identifier). An example class is thermoplastics. The class thermoplastic may be associated with a unique class identifier. The identifier may include a chemical product identifier, such as a unique material identifier, associated with a particular chemical product, such as a chemical product category.
For example, a thermoplastic class may include a number of specific (unique) thermoplastics, each having their own characteristics. The particular thermoplastic may be associated with a unique material identifier (e.g., a unique material number or other type of unique identifier). For example, the specific (unique) thermoplastic may be polyethylene, polystyrene, polypropylene, each with their own unique material identifier.
In another embodiment, the chemical product identifier relates to a predefined chemical product specification and/or one or more predefined environmental attributes. Chemical products and chemical product specifications (such as composition, toxicology and ecotoxicology) are subject to regulatory requirements and require approval by regulatory authorities. Because of this approval process, not only new chemical product specifications, but also changes in existing chemical product specifications may require an approval process prior to sale. Thus, a chemical product identifier associated with a chemical product may be predefined for a particular chemical product having approved chemical product specifications. Chemical product specifications may include chemical product composition, toxicological properties, and ecotoxicological properties. The chemical product specifications may require an approval process prior to sale.
Similarly, chemical products associated with one or more environmental attributes may be subject to regulatory requirements and require regulatory approval and registration. The chemical product specification may include one or more pre-environmental attributes associated with the chemical product. The chemical product specifications may require an approval process prior to sale. Thus, a chemical product identifier associated with a chemical product and one or more predefined environmental attributes associated with the chemical product may be predefined for a particular chemical product having approved chemical product specifications.
In another embodiment, the chemical product identifier relates to a predefined chemical product specification and one or more predefined groups of one or more environmental attributes. The chemical product identifier may relate to a predefined set of one or more environmental attributes associated with a particular chemical product definition for an approved chemical product specification. The predefined set of one or more environmental attributes may include environmental attributes related to technology, recyclability, or recycling characteristics related to the environmental impact of the chemical product. The predefined set of one or more environmental attributes may relate to recycled content, renewable content, bio-based content, renewable energy, carbon capture, carbon utilization, heat integration, or a combination thereof. A predefined set of one or more environmental attributes may specify one or more environmental characteristics, including environmental, technical, recyclability, or recycling characteristics associated with environmental impact of a chemical product and its production.
By predefining chemical product specifications and/or one or more predefined environmental attributes for the chemical product identifier, reliable and robust management of the chemical product and associated environmental attributes may be provided. By a predefined structure, the distribution of identifiers to chemical products and associated environmental attributes can be simplified and streamlined. In this way, chemical products produced by a chemical production network may be reliably attached to digital assets that include identifiers related to the chemical products and associated environmental attributes.
In another embodiment, the identifier includes a chemical product identifier associated with a chemical product specification and one or more environmental attribute identifiers associated with one or more environmental attributes. In this embodiment, the chemical product identifier and the environmental attribute identifier are separate. The chemical product identifier may relate to a chemical product specification of a particular chemical product. The environmental attribute identifier may relate to one or more environmental attributes that may be assigned to a particular chemical product.
By using the environment attribute identifier and the chemical product identifier separately, flexible allocation of the environment attribute to the chemical product can be achieved. By predefining chemical product specifications for chemical product identifiers and combining such chemical product identifiers with environment attribute identifiers, reliable and flexible allocation of environment attributes to chemical products can be achieved.
In another embodiment for distribution, the environmental attribute identifier is linked to the chemical product identifier. In another embodiment, the environment attribute identifier relates to an environment attribute or combination of environment attributes. The environment attribute identifier may relate to an environment attribute. In this way, the assignment of the environmental attribute may be accomplished by linking one or more environmental attribute identifiers to the corresponding chemical product identifiers. The environment attribute identifier may relate to a set of environment attributes. In this way, the assignment of the set of environmental attributes may be accomplished by linking the environmental attribute identifiers to the corresponding chemical product identifiers.
In another embodiment for dispensing, one or more target environmental attributes of the chemical product are provided, and the one or more environmental attribute identifiers are linked to the chemical product identifier according to the provided target environmental attributes. In this way, the environmental attributes assigned to the chemical product by linking the identifiers can be customized to the needs of the customer purchasing the chemical product produced by the chemical production network.
In another embodiment for dispensing, the chemical product identifier is generated or selected based on the chemical product and/or the environmental attribute identifier is generated or selected based on one or more environmental attributes to be dispensed from the balance account or input material to the chemical product. In another embodiment for dispensing, the chemical product identifier is generated based on the chemical product and/or the environmental attribute identifier is generated based on one or more environmental attributes to be dispensed from the balance account or input material to the chemical product.
The chemical product identifier and the environmental attribute identifier may be unique identifiers of chemical products (e.g., particular chemical products) and environmental attributes, respectively. The chemical product identifier may be generated for a chemical product (such as each chemical product) produced by the chemical production network. The chemical product identifier may be selected from a set of pre-generated chemical product identifiers for chemical products produced by a chemical production network. The chemical product identifier may be associated with a physical identifier that is physically or virtually connected to the chemical product. The environment attribute identifier may be generated for an environment attribute available to the environment production network. The environmental attribute identifier may be related to the input material into the chemical production network, the energy used by the chemical production network, or the process of the chemical production network. The environmental attribute identifier may be selected from a set of pre-generated environmental attribute identifiers for environmental attributes available to the chemical production network.
In another embodiment, the chemical product identifier is linked to a physical identifier attached to the chemical product, and/or wherein the chemical product identifier is linked to a lot number and/or order number associated with the chemical product. The chemical product identifier may be associated with a physical identifier that is physically or virtually connected to a chemical product, such as a particular chemical product produced by a chemical production network. For a physical link, the tag or code may be physically connected to the material, for example by printing an identifier number, a QR code with an embedded identifier, etc. on the package. For virtual links, different identifiers associated with physical materials may be linked. For example, order numbers, lot numbers, batch numbers, or combinations thereof may be linked together to uniquely identify a physical entity of a chemical product (such as a particular chemical product produced by a chemical production network).
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FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a chemical production network that produces one or more chemical products from one or more input materials in conjunction with an operating system that includes an attribute management system.
Fig. 2 a-2 c illustrate examples of assignment schemes for assigning use of renewable or bio-based input materials to chemical products of a chemical production network.
FIG. 3 illustrates an example of a chemical production network with different dispatch schemes.
Fig. 4a, 4b illustrate inbound and outbound assignments of environmental attributes of a chemical production network.
FIG. 5 illustrates an example of a method for assigning at least one environmental attribute to at least one chemical product produced by a chemical production network.
FIG. 6 illustrates an example service environment for assigning at least one environmental attribute to at least one chemical product produced by a chemical production network.
FIG. 7 illustrates a flow chart of an example method for assigning at least one environmental attribute to at least one chemical product produced by a chemical production network.
FIG. 8 illustrates an example of a chemical product produced by a chemical production network.
Fig. 9 illustrates an example of conversion to a balancing unit and distribution to chemical products.
Fig. 10a, 10b illustrate examples of data structures for assigning environmental attributes from a balance account to chemical product identifiers.
FIG. 11 illustrates an example of a method for producing at least one chemical product associated with at least one environmental attribute of a supply chain.
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FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a chemical production network that produces one or more chemical products from one or more input materials in conjunction with an operating system that includes an attribute management system.
To produce one or more chemical products, different input materials may be provided as physical inputs from a material provider or supplier. The input material or the chemical product produced from the input material may have one or more properties related to the environmental impact of the input material or the chemical product produced from the input material.
The chemical production network may include a plurality of interconnected processing steps. The chemical production network may be an integrated chemical production network with connected or interconnected production chains. The chemical production network may include a plurality of different production chains having at least one common intermediate product. The chemical production network may include multiple levels of chemical value chains. Chemical production networks may include production, refining, processing, and/or purification of gas or crude oil. The chemical production network may include a stream cracker or syngas unit connected to a plurality of production chains that export chemical products from the effluent of the steam cracker or syngas unit. The chemical production network may include multiple production chains that produce chemical products exiting the chemical production network from one or more input materials. The chemical production network may include a multi-layered chemical value chain. A chemical production network may include production sites that are physically connected or interconnected. The production sites may be at the same location or at different locations. In the latter case, the production sites may be connected or interconnected by a dedicated transportation system, such as a pipeline, supply chain vehicle (e.g., truck), supply chain ship, or other cargo conveyance.
The chemical production network may chemically convert the input material via a chemical intermediate to one or more chemical products that leave the chemical production network. The chemical production network may convert the input material into one or more chemical products by chemical conversion.
The input material may be fed to the chemical production network at any entry point. The input material may be fed to the chemical production network at the beginning of the chemical production network. The input material may, for example, constitute the feedstock of a steam cracker. The input material may include bio-based, recycled, and/or fossil input materials for manufacturing chemical intermediates and chemical products.
The chemical production network may include a plurality of production steps. The production steps included in the chemical network may be defined by system boundaries of the chemical production network. The system boundaries may be defined by location or control of the production process. The system boundaries may be defined by sites of a chemical production network. The system boundary may be defined by a production process commonly controlled by one entity or multiple entities. The system boundaries may be defined by a value chain with interleaved production processes of the end product, which may be controlled by multiple entities, respectively. The chemical production network may include waste collection and sorting steps, recovery steps (such as pyrolysis), cracking steps (such as steam cracking), separation steps to separate the output of one process step, and other processing steps to convert such output into chemical products to exit the system boundaries of the chemical production network.
The operating system of the chemical production network may monitor and/or control the chemical production network based on operating parameters of different processes. One process step to monitor and/or control may be the feeding of input material or the release of chemical products. Another process step of monitoring and/or controlling may assign environmental attributes to chemical products produced via a chemical production network. Another process step of monitoring and/or controlling may be registering environmental attributes associated with input materials entering the system boundaries of the chemical production network. Another process step of monitoring and/or controlling may be to manage environmental attributes associated with the input materials and chemical products of the chemical production network.
The operating system may be configured to access data related to input materials, processes, and/or chemical products produced by the chemical production network. The production operating system may be configured to convert recovered, renewable, or bio-based content of one or more input materials used in the chemical production network into an equilibrium unit. The operating system may be configured to assign the balancing unit to at least one balancing account associated with the recycling or bio-based content of the input material. The operating system may be configured to assign at least a portion of the balancing unit from the at least one balancing account to the at least one chemical product.
The operating system may be configured to process balancing units associated with inputs and chemical products produced by the chemical production network. In particular, the operating system may be configured to determine a balancing unit associated with use of input materials that affect environmental properties of the chemical production network and chemical products produced by the chemical production network. Further specifically, the operating system may be configured to determine an equilibrium location associated with the chemical product and the environmental properties of the chemical product. As such, the operating system may be configured to assign or de-assign balancing units to or from the balancing account. Thus, environmental attributes may be considered credits that may be credited to an account or deducted from an account associated with inputs and chemical products of a chemical production network.
The operating system may be configured to register inbound context attributes, assign outbound context attributes, and manage inbound assignments and outbound assignments.
Fig. 2 a-2 c illustrate examples of assignment schemes for assigning use of renewable or bio-based input materials to chemical products of a chemical production network.
As illustrated in fig. 1, a chemical production network may include complex interconnected production sites that chemically convert one or more input materials into one or more chemical products via chemical processing. To illustrate the use of recycled, bio-based or renewable content in chemical production, dispatch rules may be used. In this way, renewable or bio-based content of the input material may be dispensed to the chemical product. The renewable content may be based on input material from a renewable source. The renewable content may include bio-based input materials produced from living organisms such as different types of crops, wood, or algae. The recycled content may include any recycled material used to produce new materials. This may include any recovered bio-based or bio-based material, such as that resulting from chemical or mechanical recovery.
Billing principles for dispatching the use of recycled or renewable content are defined, for example, in ISO 22095. Four different models can be used: an identity preservation model, a separate model, a quality balance model, or a certificate transaction model.
Fig. 2a illustrates an example of a dedicated or separate production network. The production network includes a first production chain for producing chemical products from the fossil material and a second production chain for producing chemical products from the bio-based input material. The first production chain and the second production chain are not interconnected. The first and second production chains produce fossil-based and bio-based output materials, respectively. Examples of such dedicated production environments include fermentation or chemical conversion, such as production of polyethylene from sugarcane, production of bio-polylactic acid (PLA), bio-succinic acid or bio-butanediol (bo) from corn.
Fig. 2b illustrates an example of a complex production network. In contrast to the production network of fig. 2a, fossil-based input materials are co-fed and mixed with bio-based input materials. The production network produces one or more material outputs or products via one or more chemical process chains with intermediates. For simplicity, fig. 2b illustrates a mass balancing method for a chemical process chain for producing a chemical product or products. In the mass balance model, physical mixing or co-feeding of bio-based input materials with conventional fossil input materials is considered. Here, the feed into the production network and the feed of the output product form a system boundary. The mass balance of the input and output products connects the bio-based input material used to the chemical product being produced. The mass balance allows the total amount of input material (e.g., recycled or bio-based material) in the overall production network to be tracked and allowed to be assigned to chemical products. Materials having different sets of specified characteristics may be mixed. For example, a recycled or biobased feedstock replaces an equivalent amount of fossil feedstock at the beginning of the value chain (input material) and is assigned to the product (output material) in a manner that matches the input and output. For this model, the proportions of inputs with specified features may only match the initial proportions on average, and will typically vary across different outputs. This means, for example, that renewable and fossil input materials are mixed and the chemical or technical proportions in each chemical product are not tracked.
The mass balance may include a conversion factor to ensure that the amount of input material is related to the amount of output material. The calculation may be performed within a predefined or specified period of time. The mass balance may be based on balance units such as mass, energy, or carbon.
Similar to fig. 2b, fig. 2c illustrates a complex production network associated with a certificate transaction scheme. In a certificate transaction scheme, the characteristic renewable or recycled input material is not linked to the actual material flow. Certificate transactions allow decoupling of specific features, such as updateable features, from physical products and transfer of the features individually in the form of digital assets via a dedicated registry. This method can be used for renewable energy. The certificate transaction may be based on a certificate transaction billing unit, such as watts or kilowatts of power.
In the identity preservation model or separation method as illustrated in fig. 2, renewable, recycled, or bio-based input materials may not be mixed with fossil input materials. In a mass balance or certificate transaction method as illustrated in fig. 2b and 2c, renewable or recycled or bio-based materials may be mixed with fossil input materials. In view of the increasing number of different sources and the number of dispatch protocols for more sustainable chemical production, there is a need for an efficient and robust operating system for operating complex production networks, such as chemical production networks.
FIG. 3 illustrates an example of a chemical production network with different dispatch schemes.
A chemical production network may include multiple production chains with different dispatch schemes. The system boundaries of the chemical production network may represent entry points into the chemical production network and exit points from the chemical production network. The production chain may be represented by chemical products produced via such a production chain. The production chain logic may be based on process data associated with process steps from input materials to chemical products. For each production chain, a dispatch scheme may be applicable or assigned.
Fig. 4a, 4b illustrate inbound and outbound assignments of environmental attributes of a chemical production network.
FIG. 4a illustrates an example of an inbound dispatch process for a chemical production network.
As illustrated in the example of fig. 1, the chemical production network may be operated by an operating system configured to register inbound environmental attributes, assign outbound environmental attributes, and/or manage inbound registration and outbound assignment via dispatch rules. The dispatch rules may include dispatch schemes as illustrated in fig. 2 a-2 c. The chemical production network may include a network as illustrated in fig. 3.
Inbound dispatch occurs when the incoming material enters the chemical production network or physical system boundary of the chemical production network. In this context, input material means any material that enters the system boundaries of the chemical production network and is used to produce chemical products that leave the chemical production network. Such input material may be associated with an input material identifier. Possible identifiers include a dispersion identifier, an input material specification, an input material order number, an input material lot number, an input material vendor specification, or a combination thereof.
The input material data may be registered as the input material enters the chemical production network. The input material data may include an input material identifier, an input material amount, and/or one or more environmental attributes associated with the input material.
Based on the input material data, in particular the input material quantity and/or one or more environmental properties associated with the input material, the balancing unit may be determined by converting the input material quantity into a balancing unit for the respective environmental properties. The balancing unit may relate to carbon atoms, methane equivalent or any other suitable measure of environmental impact for environmental attributes. For example, the conversion to an equilibrium unit may include a conversion of the amount of input material to an energy property including material losses that occur during production of the output product.
The balancing unit may be assigned to a balancing account associated with the respective environmental attribute. In this way, environmental attributes associated with the input material into the chemical production network may be tracked or stored in the billing system. Examples of billing systems are shown in fig. 7 a-7 d, where each balance account is associated with metadata representing input material (such as pyrolysis oil), environmental attribute type (such as recycled material), and material source (such as recycled from tires). For dispatch, the input material data may include corresponding metadata of the input material. The assignment rule may include an instruction to assign the environmental attribute included in the input material data to the corresponding balance account. Such assignment rules may be used to assign environmental attributes from the input material data to the balance system during the inbound process.
For example, a method for assigning balancing units may be associated with pyrolysis oil as an input material to a complex chemical production network to an output product of the complex chemical production network.
In a first step, the amount and type of waste is provided to a computing interface. The amount and type of waste is stored with the pyrolysis unit and pyrolysis oil produced by the unit. For example, a pyrolysis oil producer may operate multiple units and may track the amount and type of waste fed to the units. The waste may be separately provided according to the type of waste, or the waste may be mixed. Based on this tracking, the amount of pyrolysis oil and the type of waste can be assigned to the produced pyrolysis oil.
In a second step, the amount of pyrolysis oil and the type of waste may be provided to a second computing system associated with an operating system of the complex chemical production network. Based on the amount of pyrolysis oil, an equilibrium unit may be created. Such generation may include conversion factors that account for chemical differences between fossil-based input materials, such as naphtha and methane. In one example, the conversion factor may relate to a lower heating value of pyrolysis oil relative to a lower heating value of naphtha or methane. The conversion factor may, for example, comprise a ratio of pyrolysis oil to a lower heating value of naphtha or methane. In this way, chemical differences between fossil and recycled input materials can be considered.
The balancing units may be assigned to respective balancing accounts. For example, the assignment rule may be associated with balance account 1 of FIG. 5. In this case, a balancing unit for pyrolysis oil produced from waste of the waste type and used in a specified amount in the production network will be assigned to the balancing account 1. Such balancing units may be assigned to chemical products according to assignment rules when producing output products. Assignment rules that specify free attributes between production processes of a chemical production network provide reliable assignments in complex production networks.
FIG. 4b illustrates an example of an outbound dispatch process for a chemical production network.
As illustrated in the example of fig. 1, the chemical production network may be operated by an operating system configured to register inbound environmental attributes, assign outbound environmental attributes, and/or manage inbound registration and outbound assignment via dispatch rules. The dispatch rules may include dispatch schemes as illustrated in fig. 3 a-3 c. The chemical production network may include a network as illustrated in fig. 2.
Chemical products may be produced from input materials into a chemical production network. Chemical product data including a chemical product identifier may be provided. The chemical product data may also include input material data associated with input materials for producing the chemical product, process data associated with a production chain for producing the chemical product, and/or chemical product data associated with the chemical product, such as a chemical product specification or a chemical product quantity.
Based on the input material data, environmental attributes associated with the input material used to produce the chemical product may be determined. The input material data may specify a total amount of input material that enters a production chain for producing a quantity of chemical product. The input material data may also specify environmental properties that may be used for the corresponding input material. From the total amount of input material, the number of balancing units available for the respective environmental properties of such input material may be determined. In this way, the maximum number of balancing units attributable to the respective environmental attribute of the chemical product may be determined.
Based on the environmental properties attributable to the chemical product, a number of balancing units corresponding to the determined environmental properties may be determined. The determined balancing units may be compared to balancing units stored in balancing accounts for the corresponding environmental attributes.
If the balance of the respective balance account for the respective environment attribute is insufficient, the environment attribute is rejected. If balancing units are available, the balancing units are deducted from the corresponding balancing accounts and environmental attributes are assigned to the chemical product, and each balancing account may be associated with metadata representing the input material (such as pyrolysis oil), the type of environmental attribute (such as recycled material), and the source of the material (such as recycled from the tire). To assign environmental attributes to chemical products, assignment rules may be defined. The dispatch rules may include instructions to assign environmental attributes included in the input material data to the chemical product from the corresponding balance account. Such dispatch rules may be used to assign environmental attributes from the balance system to chemical products during outbound processes.
FIG. 5 illustrates an example of a method for assigning at least one environmental attribute to at least one chemical product produced by a chemical production network.
One or more input materials may be provided at an entry point to a chemical production network. Material data related to one or more input materials and corresponding environmental attributes may be provided to a computing interface. The material data may be provided as, before, or after one or more input materials enter the chemical production network. The material data may include an input material identifier associated with a corresponding input material provided to the chemical production network. The input material identifier may be associated with a physical entity of the input material. In this way, the virtual identifier of the input material may be uniquely linked to the physical input material. Such links may include physical or virtual links that uniquely associate identifiers with the physical input material. For a physical link, the tag or code may be physically connected to the material, for example by printing a QR code on the package. For virtual links, different identifiers associated with physical materials may be linked. For example, order numbers, lot numbers, batch numbers, or combinations thereof may be linked. The material data may include at least one environmental attribute associated with a respective input material and an amount of the input material provided to an entry point of the chemical production network.
One or more environmental attributes may be assigned to at least one virtual balance account associated with the respective environmental attribute. The virtual balance account may be associated with a digital storage structure that stores data related to the environmental attribute. The account may be associated with metadata that identifies the account for balancing the environmental attribute. An account may be associated with metadata that identifies the environmental attributes and environmental elements assigned to the account. The account may be associated with metadata that identifies a production chain with which the account is associated. The account may be associated with metadata that identifies the input or chemical product with which the account is associated. The account may be part of a balance system that includes a plurality of accounts. The account may hold environmental attributes of the transaction. Environmental attributes may be assigned, added, deleted, withdrawn, or deducted from an account. The virtual balance account may be associated with an environmental attribute type (such as reclaimed or renewable). The virtual balance account may be associated with an input material type (such as pyrolysis oil, bio-naphtha, bio-methane, or a combination thereof). The virtual balance account associated with the recycled environmental attribute type may also be associated with a waste stream type such as mixed plastic waste, specific end product waste (e.g., layered waste or foam waste), post-consumer waste, pre-consumer waste, or a combination thereof. The virtual balance account may be associated with an assignment scheme such as a separate assignment, a non-separate assignment (e.g., a certificate transaction), a mass balance with free attribution, a mass balance without free attribution, or a combination thereof.
A chemical product identifier may be provided that is associated with a chemical product produced by the chemical production network and provided at an exit point from the chemical production network. The chemical product identifier may be associated with a physical entity of the chemical product. In this way, the virtual identifier of the material may be uniquely linked to the physical material. Such links may include physical or virtual links that uniquely associate an identifier with the physical material. For a physical link, the tag or code may be physically connected to the material, for example by printing a QR code on the package. For virtual links, different identifiers associated with physical materials may be linked. For example, order numbers, lot numbers, batch numbers, or combinations thereof may be linked.
At least one environmental attribute from at least one virtual balance account associated with a respective environmental attribute may be assigned to at least one chemical product identifier. In this way, chemical products may be provided with digital assets of environmental attributes, and positive environmental impact associated with chemical products may be tracked through the value chain using such chemical products. Tracking may even extend to end products produced from chemical products.
FIG. 6 illustrates an example service environment for assigning at least one environmental attribute to at least one chemical product produced by a chemical production network.
The example service environment of fig. 6 includes a plurality of client systems represented by two example client systems. The client systems may operate by the same organization or by different organizations. The client system involves assigning environmental attributes to at least one chemical product. For example, one client system may be a system (e.g., including server resources, database resources, storage resources, software resources, etc.) that involves the organization of material reception. In some implementations, the client system is an ERP system.
The example environment also includes an environment attribute assignment service. The environment attribute assignment service may be implemented by various server resources, database resources, storage resources, software resources, and/or other types of computing resources. The environmental attribute assignment service provides an assignment service to the client system.
The allocation process may be initiated when one of the client systems sends a request to allocate an environmental attribute from the balance account system to at least one chemical product produced by the chemical production network. The request may include a balance account associated with one or more environmental attributes and an account balance associated with one or more environmental attributes from one or more input materials provided to the chemical production network. The request may also include a target attribute that represents an environmental attribute to be assigned to the chemical product. Based on the environmental attributes, the target attributes, and the balance, the validity of the request may be checked, for example, whether the provided balance account or accounts hold a sufficient balance.
The distribution service, upon a valid request, may provide or generate an identifier associated with the chemical product. The identifier may be a chemical product identifier associated with a chemical product specification that includes one or more environmental attributes. The chemical product identifier may relate to a predefined chemical product specification and one or more predefined environmental attributes. The chemical product identifier may relate to a predefined chemical product specification and one or more predefined groups of one or more environmental attributes. Alternatively or additionally, the identifier may include a chemical product identifier associated with a chemical product specification and one or more environmental attribute identifiers associated with one or more environmental attributes. The environment attribute identifier may relate to an environment attribute or combination of environment attributes. The chemical product identifier may be generated based on the chemical product and/or the environmental attribute identifier may be generated based on one or more environmental attributes to be assigned to the chemical product from an balance account or input material.
At least one environmental attribute from at least one balance account associated with the respective environmental attribute may be assigned to the at least one chemical product upon generation of the identifier. The environmental attributes from the balance account may be assigned specifically to the generated or provided identifier. Depending on the identifier structure, the environment attribute identifier may be linked to the chemical product identifier.
For distribution, one or more target environmental attributes of the chemical product may be provided, and depending on the provided target environmental attributes, one or more environmental attribute identifiers may be linked to the chemical product identifier. The chemical product identifier may be generated or selected based on the chemical product and/or the environmental attribute identifier may be generated or selected based on one or more environmental attributes to be assigned to the chemical product from an balance account or input material. The chemical product identifier may be linked to a physical identifier attached to the chemical product. The chemical product identifier may be linked to a lot number and/or order number associated with the chemical product. An identifier associated with the chemical product and environmental attributes and/or a new account balance may be provided.
In this way, at least one environmental attribute from at least one balance account associated with the respective environmental attribute may be assigned to at least one chemical product. The listing methods presented herein may be used in the context of a chemical production network to produce at least one chemical product associated with one or more environmental attributes. One or more input materials associated with one or more environmental attributes of the chemical production network. At least one chemical product may be produced by a chemical production network. The operating system may be provided with data related to the production of input materials and chemical products associated with one or more environmental attributes, as described in the context of fig. 1. The operating system may be configured to perform the allocation methods described herein.
FIG. 7 illustrates a flow chart of an example method for assigning at least one environmental attribute to at least one chemical product produced by a chemical production network.
In order to assign at least one environmental attribute to at least one chemical product produced by a chemical production network, at least one balance account associated with the environmental attribute is provided, and an environmental attribute balance may be provided. In addition, target attributes may be provided. An identifier associated with the chemical product is generated if, for example, the account is valid for the target attribute and/or the balance is sufficient for allocation. Based on the generated identifier, at least one environmental attribute may be assigned to the identifier from at least one balance account. An identifier associated with the chemical product and environmental attributes and/or a new account balance may be provided.
Further details of the method are described in the context of fig. 6 and the following figures.
For purposes of illustration and to further explain the methods shown in fig. 1-7, fig. 8 shows an example of a chemical product produced from an input material by a chemical production network through different intermediates.
The chemical production network may include a plurality of production chains having one or more intermediate stages. The production chain may have a common starting point, for example provided by a steam cracker. Cracker feedstock may comprise fossil and non-fossil input materials. The fossil input material may comprise a feedstock containing gaseous or liquid hydrocarbons, such as naphtha and/or low pressure gas or ethane. The non-fossil input material may comprise a bio-based and/or recycled feedstock.
In steam cracking, the feedstock is diluted with steam and heated in a furnace to a reaction temperature of between 500 ℃ and 1000 ℃, for example about 850 ℃. After cracking, the gas is quenched to stop the reaction in the transfer line exchanger. The cracker products produced in the reaction depend on the composition of the feed, the ratio of hydrocarbon to steam, the cracking temperature and the furnace residence time. In the example shown in fig. 8, the cracker product comprises light olefins (such as ethylene or propylene), C4-hydrocarbons (such as isobutylene, N-butene, butadiene or cyclobutane), and/or other hydrocarbons (such as aromatics or aromatic mixtures, such as benzene, toluene and/or xylenes (benzene and toluene, also abbreviated BT); benzene, toluene and xylenes, also abbreviated BTX)).
The cracker product can be provided to an exit point of a chemical production network. In such embodiments, the cracker product may be a chemical product. Environmental attributes of recycled or bio-based input materials may be assigned to such chemical products.
The chemical production network may include one or more production chains that further process or chemically convert cracker intermediates. The cracker intermediate may be further processed or chemically converted by one or more production chains within the chemical production network. The cracker intermediate can be processed into downstream products. Downstream products may be provided to an exit point of a chemical production network. Thus, the downstream product may be a chemical product. Environmental attributes of recycled or bio-based input materials may be assigned to such chemical products. The cracker intermediate can be processed into a chemical product via one or more downstream intermediates. Environmental attributes of recycled or bio-based input materials may be assigned to such chemical products. Chemical products may include polymers, specialty chemicals, consumer chemicals, solvents, pharmaceuticals, and the like.
For purposes of illustration and to further explain the method for assigning environmental attributes to virtual balance accounts and assigning environmental attributes to chemical products as described in the context of fig. 1-8, fig. 9 illustrates an example of translating to balance units and assigning to chemical products.
Based on the non-limiting example of fig. 8, bio-based and recovered feedstock may be provided to a steam cracker. For purposes of illustration, the steam cracker may be provided with the following input materials in the following amounts:
3kg of recycled input material, such as pyrolysis oil produced from mixed plastic waste,
5Kg of a bio-based input material, such as bio-naphtha from vegetarian following the Utah diet specifications,
92Kg of naphtha.
When these input materials are provided to the steam cracker, the input materials enter a chemical production network. Environmental attributes of the reclaimed and bio-based input material can be provided to a computer interface configured to translate such attributes into balancing units and assign the balancing units to corresponding virtual balancing accounts. In the simplest example, the Balancing Unit (BU) may correspond to the amount of the respective material. In this example, the environmental attribute pyrolysis oil from the recycled mixed plastic waste may correspond to 3 BU, and the environmental attribute bio-naphtha from the bio-based food waste may correspond to 5 BU.
In more elaborate embodiments, the balancing unit may be determined based on more complex conversion factors that take into account chemical and/or physical differences between the input materials and their associated co-production rates. The conversion factor may quantify differences in chemical and/or physical properties of replacing a fossil input material with a non-fossil input material. The conversion factor may relate the use of conventional input materials to the use of input materials associated with one or more environmental attributes. The conversion factor may depend on carbon atoms, methane molecules, energy properties, process properties, or any other suitable factor for quantifying the environmental impact of environmental attributes. For example, lower or higher heating values (LHV, HHV) of fossil and non-fossil input materials may be considered. In addition, for example, material losses that occur when fossil or non-fossil materials are processed can be considered. Furthermore, for example, dispensed with steam cracker products, intermediates or production chains may be considered. Furthermore, for example, only pre-selected production chains may be considered. In this way, the environmental impact of non-fossil input materials can be quantified with reference to fossil input materials.
Steam crackers may produce cracker products that may be further processed and chemically converted. In an illustrative example, 20kg ethylene may be provided as cracker product, 30kg polyamide and 50kg polystyrene to an exit point of a chemical production network. Because for the production of such products 3kg of recycled input material and 5kg of bio-based input material are used, the environmental properties assigned to the respective balance account in BU can be assigned to such products. For example, 3 recycled BU's can be allocated to polyamide, which corresponds to 10% of the recycled content, and 5 bio-based BU's can be allocated to polystyrene, which corresponds to 10% of the bio-based content.
For purposes of illustration and to further explain the method for assigning environmental attributes to chemical products as described in the context of fig. 1-9, fig. 9 illustrates an example of virtual balance accounts for managing the assignment and allocation of balance units.
Based on the non-limiting example of fig. 9, bio-based and recovered feedstock may be provided to a steam cracker. Material profiles associated with bio-based and recycled raw materials, as well as corresponding environmental attributes, may be provided to a computing interface configured to translate the attributes into balancing units and assign the balancing units to corresponding virtual balancing accounts. In the simplest example, the environmental attribute pyrolysis oil from recycled mixed plastic waste may correspond to 3 BU, and the environmental attribute bio-naphtha from bio-based vegetable oil may correspond to 5 BU. The BU thus determined can also be associated with metadata representing, as recycled pyrolysis oil and recycled layers, and corresponding environmental attributes of bio-based bio-naphtha, vegetable oil.
For dispatch, a virtual balancing system may be provided. The virtual balancing system may include a balancing account associated with metadata related to an environmental attribute type, a chemical production grid, a production chain of chemical production grids, a dispatch plan, an input material type, an input material source, a chemical product type, or a combination thereof. The balance account may be associated with metadata relating to an environmental attribute type (recycled or bio-based), pyrolysis oil of an input material type, bio-naphtha or biogas, an input material source layer, mixed plastic waste, vegetable oil or food waste, respectively. In addition, balancing accounts may be associated with quantifying account balancing of BU.
For assignments of 3 BU's and 5 BU's, metadata of the balance account can be matched with metadata associated with such BU's. Once a match in the metadata is found, the corresponding BU is assigned to the matching account. Thus, in this example, 3 BU pyrolysis oils from recycled mixed plastic waste can be assigned to account BU recycle 2, and 5 BU bio-naphtha from bio-based vegetable oil can be assigned to account BU bio 1. The virtual balancing system may be based on balancing accounts with static or dynamic metadata. For example, if metadata provided via an environmental attribute associated with input material does not correspond to any metadata of the balanced account provided, a new account associated with such metadata may be provided. Alternatively or additionally, a hierarchical tree (leaf) of balanced accounts may be provided with different levels of metadata associated with the balanced accounts. For example, the top level may be bio-based or recycled, the next level may specify the type of input material to be used for recycling or bio-based, respectively, and so on. Alternatively or additionally, the environmental attribute may be assigned to the account associated with the largest match in the metadata. Maximum may refer to the maximum number of matching metadata points, in particular account metadata points that match, at least in part, the environmental attribute metadata points. For example, the environmental attributes may provide more metadata than any balance account. In this case, an account having metadata points that at least partially match metadata points of the environmental attribute may be selected for dispatch.
For purposes of illustration and to further explain the method for assigning environmental attributes from the balance account to the chemical product identifier as described in the context of fig. 1-9, fig. 10a, 10b illustrate examples of data structures for assigning environmental attributes from the balance account to the chemical product identifier.
Based on the non-limiting example of fig. 8, bio-based and recycled feedstock may be provided to a steam cracker, converted to an balancing unit as shown in fig. 9 and assigned to a balancing account. In this example, the balance account recovered has a balance of 3 BU, while the bio-based balance account has a balance of 5 BU.
To assign such BU to a chemical product, a chemical product identifier can be provided. The chemical product identifier may be associated with a chemical product provided to an exit point of the chemical production network. The chemical identifier may relate to a chemical product specification. The chemical identifier may relate to a chemical product specification and an environmental attribute.
As shown in fig. 10a, the chemical identifier may correlate a chemical product specification polyamide or polystyrene with an environmental attribute of 10% recovery or bio-based content. A chemical product identifier may be provided for a predefined chemical product associated with a predefined environmental attribute. In this embodiment, the number of BU's required for the respective chemical products is predefined and no further conversion of BU's into the respective environmental attributes is required. In this way, the management of input materials and chemical products with environmental properties is less dynamic and can be simplified.
As shown in fig. 10b, an environmental attribute identifier may be provided in addition to the chemical identifier. The chemical identifier may relate to a chemical product specification polyamide or polystyrene. The chemical product identifier may be provided for a predefined chemical product. The environmental attribute identifier may relate to an environmental attribute of 10% recovery or bio-based content. The environment attribute identifier may be linked to a chemical product identifier. The environment attribute identifier may be provided for a predefined environment attribute type. For allocation, BU can be allocated to the environment attribute identifier. For allocation, the BU can be converted to an environmental attribute, and an environmental attribute, such as 10% recovered content, can be allocated to the environmental attribute identifier. In this embodiment, the number of BU's required for the respective chemical products is not predefined and can be flexibly dispensed. In this way, a chemical product having environmental properties tailored to customer needs may be provided.
The chemical identifier may be uniquely linked to a physical entity of the chemical product. In one embodiment, the lot identifier and the order identifier may be provided to and/or linked to the chemical product identifier. In this way, the chemical product identifier may be uniquely linked to the physical entity of the chemical product that left the chemical production network. In other embodiments, the chemical identifier may be linked to a physical entity of the chemical product and physically connected to the chemical product by a physical identifier having an encoded chemical product identifier. For example, a tag or QR code may be physically connected to a chemical product, and a chemical product identifier may be encoded into the tag or QR code. In this way, the chemical product identifier may be uniquely linked to the physical entity of the chemical product that left the chemical production network.
FIG. 11 illustrates an example of a method for producing at least one chemical product associated with at least one environmental attribute of a supply chain.
The example of fig. 11 illustrates two layers and an initial equipment manufacturer. Layer 1 may be a chemical producer operating a chemical production network. A chemical production network may be associated with a system boundary. The system boundaries may represent physical boundaries of a chemical production network. Input material into the chemical production network at any stage of the production network or system boundary of the chemical production network may represent an entry point into the chemical production network. Upon entry of an input material associated with one or more environmental attributes, the environmental attributes may be decoupled from a physical material flow of the input material through the chemical production network. Such separation of physical input material and virtual environment properties may be provided by a method for registering at least one input material associated with at least one environment property, as described herein and illustrated, for example, in fig. 4a (inbound). Chemical products may be produced from the input material through a chemical production network. At least one chemical product may be produced by a chemical production network, and the chemical product may be linked to at least one environmental attribute, as described herein and illustrated in fig. 4b (outbound).
Chemical products produced by the chemical production network that are associated with at least one environmental attribute may be provided to a next layer. In the illustrated example, layer 2 may be a production network that produces discrete products from chemical products or chemical products. The discrete product may be any product associated with different physical units. Discrete manufacturing uses such discrete products to assemble other discrete products as opposed to process manufacturing. In contrast, chemical production is manufactured using a process in which input materials are mixed and chemically converted into chemical output products. Such output products are chemical products that can be transferred in discrete units, such as containers or barrels. However, such chemical products are not discrete products. Chemical to discrete production networks may be associated with system boundaries as described above. Similar to the chemical production network, the chemical to discrete production network may register input materials associated with at least one environmental attribute in the inbound, which may be a chemical product of the chemical production network (inbound) as described herein or illustrated in fig. 4 a. The discrete output product may be produced by a chemical to discrete production network. At least one discrete output product may be linked to at least one environmental attribute (outbound).
Discrete products associated with at least one environmental attribute produced by the chemical-to-discrete production network may be provided to an initial equipment manufacturer that produces the final product. As described herein and in the context of fig. 4a, the discrete product and associated environmental attributes may be de-separated (inbound) at registration. After de-separation, the environmental properties may be linked to the final product as described herein and illustrated in fig. 4b (outbound).
The one or more environmental attributes assigned to the chemical product identifier may be used to provide at least one discrete product identifier that correlates at least one discrete product or at least one end product identifier of at least one end product of a given product supply chain with the one or more environmental attributes. The chemical product associated with the one or more environmental attributes may be used to produce at least one discrete product or at least one end product of a product supply chain associated with the one or more environmental attributes.
In this way, the environmental attributes associated with any input material may be tracked through the value chain to the end product. The methods, apparatus and systems described herein enable transparency from an early stage of a value chain at a chemical product level to a final stage of the value chain at a final product level. By linking the physical material and the environmental properties, environmentally friendly products and more sustainable production can be made transparent and tracked.
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1. A method for producing at least one chemical product associated with one or more environmental attributes, wherein the chemical product is produced through a chemical production network, the method comprising:
providing the chemical production network with one or more input materials associated with one or more environmental attributes,
Providing at least one balance account associated with one or more environmental attributes of the one or more input materials provided to the chemical production network,
-Producing said at least one chemical product,
Providing an identifier associated with the chemical product,
-Assigning at least one environmental attribute from the at least one balance account associated with a respective environmental attribute to the at least one chemical product, wherein the environmental attribute from the balance account is assigned to the identifier associated with the chemical product.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifier is a chemical product identifier associated with a chemical product specification that includes one or more environmental attributes.
3. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the chemical product identifier relates to a predefined chemical product specification and one or more predefined environmental attributes.
4. A method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the chemical product identifier relates to a predefined chemical product specification and one or more predefined groups of one or more environmental attributes.
5. The method of any of the preceding claims, wherein the identifier comprises a chemical product identifier associated with the chemical product specification and one or more environmental attribute identifiers associated with one or more environmental attributes.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein for allocation, the environmental attribute identifier is linked to the chemical product identifier.
7. The method of claim 5 or 6, wherein the environment attribute identifier relates to an environment attribute or combination of environment attributes.
8. A method according to any one of claims 5to 7, wherein for dispensing one or more target environmental attributes of the chemical product are provided, and one or more environmental attribute identifiers are linked to the chemical product identifier in accordance with the provided target environmental attributes.
9. The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein for dispensing, the chemical product identifier is generated or selected based on the chemical product and/or the environmental attribute identifier is generated or selected based on the one or more environmental attributes to be dispensed from the input material to the chemical product.
10. The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein for dispensing, the chemical product identifier is generated based on the chemical product and/or the environmental attribute identifier is generated based on the one or more environmental attributes to be dispensed from the input material to the chemical product.
11. The method of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the chemical product identifier is linked to a physical identifier attached to the chemical product, and/or wherein the chemical product identifier is linked to a lot number and/or order number associated with the chemical product.
12. A method for assigning at least one environmental attribute to at least one chemical product produced by a chemical production network, the method comprising:
providing at least one balance account associated with one or more environmental attributes and an account balance associated with one or more environmental attributes from one or more input materials provided to the chemical production network,
-Providing an identifier associated with the chemical product.
-Assigning at least one environmental attribute from the at least one balance account associated with the respective environmental attribute to the at least one chemical product, wherein the environmental attribute from the balance account is assigned to the identifier.
13. A system for producing at least one chemical product associated with one or more environmental attributes, wherein the chemical product is produced by a chemical production network, the system comprising:
-a chemical production network configured to produce at least one chemical product based on one or more input materials provided to the chemical production network, wherein the one or more input materials are associated with one or more environmental attributes;
A billing system configured to provide at least one balance account associated with one or more environmental attributes of the one or more input materials provided to the chemical production network,
An identifier provider configured to provide an identifier associated with the chemical product,
-A dispenser configured to assign at least one environmental attribute from the at least one balance account associated with the respective environmental attribute to the at least one chemical product, wherein the environmental attribute from the balance account is assigned to the identifier associated with the chemical product.
14. An apparatus for assigning at least one environmental attribute to at least one chemical product produced by a chemical production network, the method comprising:
A billing system configured to provide at least one balance account associated with one or more environmental attributes and an account balance associated with one or more environmental attributes from one or more input materials provided to the chemical production network,
An identifier provider configured to provide an identifier associated with the chemical product,
-A dispenser configured to assign at least one environmental attribute from the at least one balance account associated with the respective environmental attribute to the at least one chemical product, wherein the environmental attribute from the balance account is assigned to the identifier associated with the chemical product.
15. Use of a chemical product associated with one or more environmental properties provided by the method according to any one of claims 1 to 11 for producing at least one discrete product or at least one end product of a product supply chain associated with the one or more environmental properties.
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