Sustainable Design Through Process Integration

Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement

Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9780080961613
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Biological Sciences

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 techniques
• Covers 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 prevention
• Presents 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

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Introduction to Sustainability, Sustainable Design, and Process Integration
• Chapter 2. Overview of Process Economics
• Chapter 3. Benchmarking Process Performance Through Overall Mass Targeting
• Chapter 4. Direct-Recycle Networks: A Graphical Approach
• Chapter 5. Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks: A Graphical Approach
• Chapter 6. Combining Mass-Integration Strategies
• Chapter 7. Heat Integration
• Chapter 8. Integration of Combined Heat and Power Systems
• Chapter 9. Property Integration
• Chapter 10. Direct-Recycle Networks: An Algebraic Approach
• Chapter 11. Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks: An Algebraic Approach
• Chapter 12. Synthesis of Heat-Induced Separation Networks for Condensation of Volatile Organic Compounds
• Chapter 13. Design of Membrane-Separation Systems
• Chapter 14. Overview of Optimization
• Chapter 15. An Optimization Approach to Direct Recycle
• Chapter 16. Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks: A Mathematical Programming Approach
• Chapter 17. Synthesis of Reactive Mass-Exchange Networks
• Chapter 18. Mathematical Optimization Techniques for Mass Integration
• Chapter 19. Mathematical Techniques for the Synthesis of Heat-Exchange Networks
• Chapter 20. Synthesis of Combined Heat and Reactive Mass-Exchange Networks
• Chapter 21. Design of Integrated Biorefineries
• Chapter 22. Macroscopic Approaches of Process Integration
• Chapter 23. Concluding Thoughts: Launching Successful Process-Integration Initiatives and Applications
• Appendix I. Conversion Relationships for Concentrations and Conversion Factors for Units
• Appendix II. Modeling of Mass-Exchange Units for Environmental Applications
• Index