Environmental Sustainability and Industries

Technologies for Solid Waste, Wastewater, and Air Treatment

Pardeep Singh, João Paulo Bassin, Sanchayita Rajkhowa, Ramesh Oraon, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9780323900348
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323885812
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Environmental Sustainability and Industries identifies and discusses critical areas related to environmentally conscious industrial development of products and services that may support more sustainable and equitable societies. This book addresses pollution prevention by referring to the use of processes, practices, and materials that reduce or eliminate the generation of pollutants at the source of production, more efficient use of raw materials, energy, water or other resources, or by conserving natural resources by maintaining clean production. It explains industrial energy efficiency as the most cost-effective use of energy in manufacturing processes, reducing its wastage as well as the total consumption of primary energy resources. Life cycle assessment is used as an analytical method to quantify environmental impacts, focusing on environmental considerations concerning process design and optimization, and including various sustainable manufacturing parameters in the context of industrial processes and proposes a classification of identified parameters to evaluate and optimize the manufacturing performances. The book also dives into industrial ecology, investigating how, where, and why environmental improvements can be made to develop a sustainable industry, meeting the needs of current generations without sacrificing the needs of the future ones. This book analyzes a company's environmental, social, and economic performance and their interrelationships, emphasizing the importance of identifying and understanding causal relationships between alternative approaches to action and their impact on financial and nonfinancial performance. It concludes with a view on the future of sustainable industrial systems stressing change as a joint effort of scientists, governments, people in business, and academicians. - Offers compiled information on the environmental sustainability for industry - Provides principles and advanced trends and approaches for environmental sustainability for the industrial sector - Discusses established and emerging technologies and processes for sustainable approaches for industry - Presents the development in the use of the assessment models as a tool to support the research and applications of different sustainable technologies and processes

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of contributors
• About the editors
• Preface
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 : Processes and technologies for water reuse in the industry
• Chapter 2 : Municipal water treatment with special emphasis on biosorption and nanoparticles
• Chapter 3 : Clearing the air: technologies for monitoring and control of air pollution
• Chapter 4 : Nanotechnology: an emerging strategy for combating air pollution
• Chapter 5 : Biochar-based composting for sustainable and eco-friendly agriculture
• Chapter 6 : Sustainable bio-based technologies for waste and wastewater treatment integrated with value-added products
• Chapter 7 : Recent trends in the application of biowaste for hazardous radioactive waste treatment
• Chapter 8 : Biodegradable plastics as a substitute to traditional polythenes: a step toward a safer environment
• Chapter 9 : Two-dimensional nanomaterial-based chemosensors for the detection of contaminants in air and water
• Chapter 10 : Nanomaterials in sustainable industrial applications
• Chapter 11 : Applications of metal-organic framework based membranes in energy storage and conversion
• Chapter 12 : Industry and environmental life-cycle assessment: background and perspective
• Chapter 13 : Process system engineering and the development of tools for environmental considerations in the perspective of industrial ecology
• Chapter 14 : Life-cycle assessment of biorefinery
• Chapter 15 : Avoiding waste and generating environmental, social and economic gains through industrial social ecology networks
• Chapter 16 : Sustainability and process intensification in wastewater treatment
• Chapter 17 : Industrial symbiosis and eco-industrial parks
• Chapter 18 : Process intensification and green engineering in process industry
• Chapter 19 : Economic development, economic complexity and environmental performance: in search of common ground
• Chapter 20 : Design of sustainable and environmental friendly processes for industries
• Chapter 21 : Fruitful controversies in sustainable livestock production: beyond the intensive versus extensive livestock polarization in nonforest ecosystems
• Chapter 22 : Corporate sustainability: roles of technologies and business models
• Index
• A