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.