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 bee...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author El-Halwagi, Mahmoud M., 1962-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston, MA : Butterworth-Heinemann, ©2012.
Subjects
Chemical processes.
Sustainable engineering.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780080961613
0080961614
9781856177443
1856177440
1283293595
9781283293594
9786613293596
6613293598
Physical Description1 online resource (xi, 422 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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