Sustainable Design Through Process Integration

Sustainable Design through Process Integration: Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement, Second Edition, is 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. The book is ideal for adoption in process design and sustainability courses. It is also a valuable guidebook to process, chemical, and environmental engineers who need to improve the design, operation, performance, and sustainability of industrial plants. The book covers pressing and high growth topics, including benchmarking process performance, identifying root causes of problems and opportunities for improvement, designing integrated solutions, enhancing profitability, conserving natural resources, and preventing pollution. Written by one of the world's foremost authorities on integrated process design and sustainability, the new edition contains new chapters and updated materials on various aspects of process integration and sustainable design. The new edition is also packed with numerous new examples and industrial applications.

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. Direct-Recycle Networks: Graphical and Algebraic Targeting Approaches 5. Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks 6. Combining Mass-Integration Strategies 7. Heat Integration 8. Integration of Combined Heat and Power Systems 9. Synthesis of Heat-Induced Separation Network for Condensation of Volatile 10. Property Integration 11. Overview of Optimization 12. An Optimization Approach to Direct Recycle 13. Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks: A Mathematical Programming Approach 14. Synthesis of Reactive Mass-Exchange Networks 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 for Thermal Desalination Processes 19. Design of Membrane-Separation Systems 20. Macroscopic Approaches of Process Integration 21. 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