Sustainable Design Through Process Integration

Sustainable Design through Process Integration: Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement, third edition, remains an important textbook that 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. This new edition is fully revised, updated and expanded and contains new information on 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.

• Fully revised, updated and expanded new 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 of industrial processes
• Helps to systematically develop rigorous targets that benchmark the performance of industrial processes then develop cost-effective implementations
• Contains state-of-the-art process integration approaches and applications including graphical, algebraic, and mathematical techniques
• Covers applications including process economics, targeting for conservation of mass and energy, synthesis of innovative processes, retrofitting of existing systems, integration of process components, 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
• Includes numerous examples and case studies for a broad array of industrial systems and processes
• Companied by website hosting textbook support for instructors