This book introduces chemical engineering students to key concepts, strategies, and evaluation methods in sustainable process engineering. The book is intended to supplement chemical engineering texts in fundamentals and design, rather than replace them. The key objectives of the book are to widen system boundaries beyond a process plant to include utility supplies, interconnected plants, wider industry sectors and entire product life cycles; identify waste and its sources in process and utility systems and adopt waste minimization strategies; broaden evaluation to include technical, economic, safety, environmental, social and sustainability criteria and to integrate the assessments; and broaden the engineering horizon to incorporate planning, development, design, and operations.
Case examples are integrated with chapter topics throughout, and defined problems that reflect current industry challenges are provided. Contexts include electricity generation, waste sulfuric acid minimization, petroleum fuel desulfurization, and byproduct hydrogen utilization.
Acknowledgements
Preface
Part A : Concepts
Introduction to Part A
Chapter 1 : Sustainability Concepts
Chapter 2 : Cleaner Production
Chapter 3 : Industrial Ecology
Problems : Part A
Part B : Strategies
Introduction to Part B
Chapter 4 : Waste Minimisation in Reactors
Chapter 5 : Waste Minimisation in Separation Processes
Chapter 6 : Identification of Waste in Utility Systems
Chapter 7 : Energy Conservation
Chapter 8 : Materials Recycling
Chapter 9 : Waste Minimisation in Operations
Problems : Part B
Part C : Evaluation
Chapter 10 : Life Cycle Assessment
Chapter 11 : Life Cycle Assessment Case Studies
Chapter 12 : Safety Evaluation
Chapter 13 : Assessment of Costs and Economics
Chapter 14 : Sustainability Assessment
Problems : Part C
Part D : Implementation
Chapter 15 : Planning for Sustainable Process Industries
Chapter 16 : Process Design and Project Development
Chapter 17 : Operations Management
Problems : Part D
Index of Topics
Index of Cases
Index of Set Problems
