Sustainability Engineering: A Design Guide for the Chemical Process Industry

✍ Scribed by Jeffery Perl (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores sustainability engineering through the lens of the manufacturing and chemical process industries to elucidate the safe and economic implementation of process designs used to transform raw materials into useful finished products. The author applies the tenets of sustainability science to develop an engineering methodology that supports the perpetual availability of raw materials through recycling/reuse/repurposing, incorporates inexhaustible supplies, such as solar energy and municipal waste, and encompasses the husbandry of these resources in a manner that minimizes negative environmental impacts. Anyone involved in the design or manufacture of chemicals, or the upgrade of existing manufacturing processes, will benefit from this book’s suggestions for identifying improvement options, while adding the pivotal aspect of sustainability to the usual cost and safety equation optimization elements.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii
Introduction: Enlightened Self-Interest for the Enthusiastic Capitalist....Pages 1-15
ChE Sustainability Engineering Design Approach: Bread and Butter....Pages 17-30
Material and Energy Sources and Sinks....Pages 31-45
The Efficiency of All Things....Pages 47-66
New Product Design and Alternative Process Chemistry: SE Manufacturing Choices....Pages 67-74
Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health (ESOH) Regulations....Pages 75-86
ChE SE Technology Equipment and Utilization Toolbox....Pages 87-112
SE Industrial Process Examples....Pages 113-134
Total Quality Management and Sustainability Engineering....Pages 135-146
Government Regulatory Development for Sustainability Engineering....Pages 147-160
Sustainability Engineering in Various Engineering Disciplines and Industry Segments: Challenges and Opportunities....Pages 161-175
Sustainability Engineering Design Resolution Roadmap: Where Do We Go from Here?....Pages 177-185
Back Matter....Pages 187-239

✦ Subjects

Energy Efficiency (incl. Buildings); Industrial Pollution Prevention; Industrial and Production Engineering