USING DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION FOR INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL-MANAGEMENT - AN APPLICATION TO SOLVENT WASTE-DISPOSAL

The choice of disposal strategy for a residuals stream often determine s the environmental medium into which the pollution is released. In tu rn, choice of medium may influence both the kinds of adverse effects t hat the pollution will have and the timing of those effects as well. A s an illustration of the way in which these factors may be taken into account in integrated environmental management, this paper demonstrate s the application of a dynamic optimization model to the problem of al locating a pollutant between two different disposal methods. The alter natives examined are incineration and land disposal for metal-bearing solvent waste.