Sustainable design through process integration : fundamentals and applications to industrial pollution prevention, resource conservation, and profitability enhancement /
Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi.
- Amsterdam ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, c2012.
- xi, 422 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 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.