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

Sustainable Design through Process Integration, 2nd Edition, is an important tool for professional chemical, plant and environmental engineers who need to tackle pollution and efficiency challenges in chemical plant and unit operations. It delivers techniques that can be used to maximise efficiency and sustainability and minimize pollution. You will save time and money by using the detailed tools and applications provided by this groundbreaking book, written by one of the World's foremost process integration experts. It covers hot and high growth topics, including pollution prevention and sustainable design, reduction of greenhouse gases from industrial facilities, and production of renewable energy sources, including biofuel refining. The new edition contains 7 new chapters and content has been expanded and updated throughout. This book offers the practical tools to help engineers address pollution prevention problems in a cost-effective manner. It 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. Distillation networks and advanced energy systemsDesign of water-desalination and treatment systemsSolar systems and hydrocarbon energy systems INDICE: 1. Introduction to Sustainability, Sustainable Design, and Process Integration 2. Overview of Process Economics 3. Benchmarking Process Performance Through Overall Mass Targeting 4. Direct-Recycle Networks: A Graphical Approach 5. Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks: A Graphical Approach 6. Distillation Networks 7. Combining Mass-Integration Strategies 8. Heat Integration 9. Integration of Combined Heat and Power Systems 10. Advanced Energy Systems 11. Property Integration 12. Direct-Recycle Networks: An Algebraic Approach  13. Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks: An Algebraic Approach 14. Synthesis of Heat-Induced Separation Network for Condensation of Volatile Organic Compounds 15. Design of Water-Desalination and Treatment Systems 16. Water-Energy Nexus 17. Overview of Optimization 19. An Optimization Approach to Direct Recycle 20. Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks: A Mathematical Programming Approach 21. Synthesis of Reactive Mass-Exchange Networks 22. Mathematical Optimization Techniques for Mass Integration 23. Mathematical Techniques for the Synthesis of Heat-Exchange Networks 24. Design of Solar Systems 25. Synthesis of Combined Heat and Reactive Mass-Exchange Networks 26. Design of Hydrocarbon Processing Systems 27. Design of Integrated Biorefineries 28. Design of Eco-Industrial Parks (Eips) 29. Macroscopic Approaches of Process Integration 29. Concluding Thoughts: Launching Successful Process-Integration Initiatives and Applications Appendix I: Conversion Relationships for Concentrations and Conversion Factor for Units Appendix II: Modeling of Mass-Exchange Units for Environmental Applications Appendix III: Modeling of Steam and Utility Systems

• ISBN: 978-0-12-809823-3
• Editorial: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 650
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés