Sustainable design through process integration
Subtitle: fundamentals and applications to industrial pollution prevention, resource conservation, and profitability enhancement
By: Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781856177443
Subjects: Chemical processes; Sustainable engineering
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 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.