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Summary
Summary
The environmental impact of industrial waste is one of the most serious challenges facing the chemical process industries. From a focus on end-of-pipe treatment in the 1970s, chemical manufacturers have increasinglyimplemented pollution prevention policies in which pollutants are mitigated at the source or separated and recovered and then reused or sold.
This book is the first to present systematic techniques for cost-effective pollution prevention, altering what has been an art that depends on experience and subjective opinion into a science rooted in fundamental engineering principles and process integration. Step-by-step procedures are presented that are widely applicable to the chemical, petrochemical, petroleum, pharmaceutical, food, and metals industries.
Various levels of sophistication ranging from graphical methods to algebraic procedures and mathematical optimization, numerous applications and case studies, and integrated software for optimizing waste recovery systems make Pollution Prevention through Process Integration: Systematic Design Tools a must read for a wide spectrum of practicing engineers, environmental scientists, plant managers, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers in the areas of pollution prevention andprocess integration.
Author Notes
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.
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Pollution prevention and waste minimization are extremely important in processing raw materials into products. This excellent book brings together the results of more than 10 years of research on the design and synthesis of chemical processes. New techniques that have been developed are described in this book and illustrated with examples. High-speed computers and these new synthesis methods enable process design engineers to consider many more alternatives as they develop new processes. Safety, economics, control, start-up, markets, and operating alternatives must be considered in process design as well as pollution prevention and waste minimization. Significant progress has been made in systematic process integration, and many of the new procedures are included in this book. There are also homework problems for those who wish to use this book as an undergraduate or graduate chemical engineering textbook. A valuable work for process design engineers. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. L. E. Erickson Kansas State University
Table of Contents
| Overview of Pollution Prevention and Process Integration |
| Modeling of Individual Mass Exchange Units for Environmental Applications |
| Synthesis of Mass Exchange Networks |
| Graphical Techniques for Mass Integration: Segregation,Recycle, Interception, and Unit Manipulation |
| Optimization Techniques for Mass Integration |
| Synthesis of Reactive Mass Exchange Networks |
| Combined Heat and Mass Integration |
| Design of Heat-Induced Separation Networks |
| Recovery of VOCs |
| Modeling and Design of Membrane Systems |
| Environmentally-Benign Chemistry and Species |
| Subject Index |
