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
Preface
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Modeling of Mass-Exchange Units for Environmental Applications
Chapter 3 : Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks
Chapter 4 : Graphical Techniques for Mass Integration with Mass-Exchange Interception
Chapter 5 : Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks—An Algebraic Approach
Chapter 6 : Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks : A Mathematical Programming Approach
Chapter 7 : Mathematical Optimization Techniques for Mass Integration
Chapter 8 : Synthesis of Reactive Mass-Exchange Networks
Chapter 9 : Combining Heat Integration with Mass Integration
Chapter 10 : Synthesis of Heat-Induced Separation Network for Condensation of Volatile Organic Compounds
Chapter 11 : Design of Membrane-Separation Systems
Chapter 12 : Environmentally Benign Chemistry and Species
Appendix 1 : Useful Relationships for Compositions
Appendix 2 : Conversion Factors
Appendix 3 : Overview of Process Economics
Appendix 4 : Instructions for Software Package
Index
