Sustainable Design Through Process Integration
Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement
3rd Edition
Published on 11. July 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
666 pages
978-0-443-16039-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
1515 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-443-16039-4 (9780443160394)
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Sustainable Design Through Process Integration
Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement
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Mahmoud M. El-halwagi
Sustainable Design Through Process Integration
Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement
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08/2017
2nd Edition
Elsevier
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Person
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.
Content
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
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