Sustainable Design Through Process Integration: Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement - Softcover

El-Halwagi, Mahmoud M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0443160392 ISBN 13: 9780443160394

Publisher: Elsevier, 2025

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

Sustainable Design through Process Integration: Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement, Third Edition, remains an important textbook that 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 of industrial processes.

This new edition is fully revised, updated and expanded and contains new information on 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443160392
• ISBN 13: 9780443160394
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 666