Sustainable design through process integration :

El-Halwagi, Mahmoud M., 1962-

Sustainable design through process integration : fundamentals and applications to industrial pollution prevention, resource conservation, and profitability enhancement / Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi. - Waltham ; Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann / Elsevier, c.2012. - xi, 422 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Index : p. 415-422.


Includes bibliographical references.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction to Sustainability and Pollution Prevention: Metrics and Approaches; Overview of Process Integration; Overall Targeting of Mass Usage and Discharge; Design of Recycle/Reuse Networks; Synthesis of Physical Mass-Exchange Networks; Synthesis of Reactive Mass-Exchange Networks; Synthesis of Membrane Separation Systems; Green Chemistry; Combined Mass Integration Techniques; Synthesis of Heat Exchange Networks; Design of Combined Heat and Power Systems; Sustainable Process and Product Design; Integrated Approaches to the Reduction of Greenhouse Gases; Life Cycle Analysis; Process Integration as an Enabling Tool to Environmental Impact Assessment; Design of Biofuel Production Systems and Integrated Biorefineries; Optimization Approaches to Sustainable Design.

9781856177443 (hardback) 1856177440 (hardback)


Chemical processes.
Sustainable engineering.





660.28 / ELH