Sustainable Design Through Process Integration

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.

Dr. Mahmoud El-Halwagi is professor and holder of the McFerrin Professorship at the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University. He is internationally recognized for pioneering contributions in the principles and applications of process integration and sustainable design. He has served as a consultant to a wide variety of processing industries. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and is the recipient of prestigious research and educational awards including the American AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum Research Excellence Award, the Celanese and the Fluor Distinguished Teaching Awards, and the US National Science Foundation's National Young Investigator Award.

1. introduction to sustainability, sustainable design, and process integration 2. 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