Sustainable Design Through Process Integration

Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement

Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 3
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443160400
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

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. - Provides authoritative, comprehensive, and easy-to-follow coverage of the fundamental concepts and practical techniques in the use of process integration to maximize the efficiency and sustainability of industrial processes - Helps readers systematically develop rigorous targets that benchmark the performance of industrial processes and develop cost-effective implementations - Contains state-of-the-art process integration approaches and applications, including graphical, algebraic, and mathematical techniques - Covers applications, including process economics, targeting for conservation of mass and energy, synthesis of innovative processes, retrofitting of existing systems, integration of process components, and in-process pollution prevention - Includes numerous examples and case studies for a broad array of industrial systems and processes

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1. Introduction to Sustainability, Sustainable Design, and Process Integration
• Chapter 2. Overview of Process Economics
• Chapter 3. Mass-Integration Benchmarking of New Designs via Stoichiometric Targeting
• Chapter 4. Process-Improvement Benchmarking of Existing Designs via Mass-Integration Targeting
• Chapter 5. Direct-Recycle Networks: Graphical and Algebraic Targeting Approaches
• Chapter 6. Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks
• Chapter 7. Combining Mass-Integration Strategies
• Chapter 8. Heat Integration
• Chapter 9. Integration of Combined Heat and Power Systems
• Chapter 10. Property Integration
• Chapter 11. Overview of Optimization
• Chapter 12. An Optimization Approach to Direct Recycle
• Chapter 13. Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks: A Mathematical Programming Approach
• Chapter 14. Synthesis of Reactive Mass-Exchange Networks
• Chapter 15. Mathematical Optimization Techniques for Mass Integration
• Chapter 16. Mathematical Techniques for the Synthesis of Heat-Exchange Networks
• Chapter 17. Synthesis of Heat-Integrated Separation Networks
• Chapter 18. Water-Energy Nexus for Thermal Desalination Processes
• Chapter 19. Design of Membrane-Separation Systems
• Chapter 20. Macroscopic Approaches of Process Integration
• Chapter 21. Industrial Symbiosis
• Chapter 22. Decarbonization Strategies via Process Integration
• Chapter 23. Intensification, Safety, and Resilience via Process Integration
• Chapter 24. Concluding Thoughts: Launching Successful Process-Integration Initiatives and Applications
• Appendix A. Conversion Relationships for Concentrations and Conversion Factor for Units
• Appendix B. Modeling of Mass-Exchange Units for Environmental Applications
• Index