Sustainable Design through Process Integration: Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement, Third Edition 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 in industrial processes. Sections cover new information on the inclusion of sustainability objectives within different front-end loading stages of design, carbon management and monetization, design of renewable energy systems and integration with existing infrastructure, incorporation of process safety in design, resilience principles and design approaches, modular design, industrial symbiosis, and open-ended mini projects on sustainable design.
Table of Contents
1. introduction to sustainability, sustainable design, and process integration2. overview of process economics
3. benchmarking process performance through overall mass targeting
4. front-end loading approaches to greenfield design and process improvement projects
5. direct-recycle networks
6. synthesis of mass-exchange networks
7. combining mass-integration strategies
8. heat integration
9: integration of combined heat and power systems
10. synthesis of heat-induced separation network for condensation of volatile organic compounds
11. property integration
12. overview of optimization
13. an optimization approach to direct recycle
14. synthesis of mass-exchange networks: a mathematical programming approach
15. mathematical optimization techniques for mass integration
16. mathematical techniques for the synthesis of heat-exchange networks
17. synthesis of combined heat and reactive mass-exchange networks
18. water-energy nexus
19. thermal desalination processes
20. design of membrane networks
21. integration of solar energy with industrial infrastructure and resources
22. modular design and distributed manufacturing
23. inherently safer design and resilience
24. carbon management and monetization
25. industrial symbiosis
26. macroscopic approaches of process integration
27. concluding thoughts: launching successful process-integration initiatives and applications
