Sustainable Design Through Process Integration: Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement

This timely book provides authoritative, comprehensive, and easy-to-follow coverage of the fundamental concepts and practical techniques on the use of process integration to maximize the efficiency and sustainability of industrial processes.

Over the past three decades, significant advances have been made in treating, designing, and operating chemical processes as integrated systems. Whether you are a process engineer, an industrial decision maker, or a researcher, this book will be an indispensable resource tool for systematically enhancing process performance and developing novel and sustainable process designs. The book is also ideal for use as a text in an upper level undergraduate or an introductory graduate course on process design and sustainability.

This ground breaking reference enhances and reconciles various process and sustainability objectives, such as cost effectiveness, yield improvement, energy efficiency, and pollution prevention. The detailed tools and applications within are written by one of the world’s foremost process integration and design experts and will save you time and money.

Contains state-of-the-art process integration approaches and applications including graphical, algebraic, and mathematical techniquesCovers applications that include process economics, targeting for conservation of mass and energy, synthesis of innovative processes, retrofitting of existing systems, design and assessment of renewable energy systems, and in-process pollution preventionPresents fundamentals and step-by-step procedures that can be applied to the design and optimization of new processes as well the retrofitting and operation of existing processes, as well as including numerous examples and case studies for a broad array of industrial systems and processes

Introduction to Sustainability and Pollution Prevention Metrics and Approaches Overview of Process Integration Overall Targeting of Mass Usage and Discharge Design of Recycle/Reuse Networks Synthesis of Physical Mass-Exchange Networks Synthesis of Reactive Mass-Exchange Networks Synthesis of Membrane Separation Systems Green Chemistry; Combined Mass Integration Techniques Synthesis of Heat Exchange Networks Design of Combined Heat and Power Systems Sustainable Process and Product Design Integrated Approaches to the Reduction of Greenhouse Gases Life Cycle Analysis Process Integration as an Enabling Tool to Environmental Impact Assessment Design of Biofuel Production Systems and Integrated Biorefineries Optimization Approaches to Sustainable Design