title: Pollution Prevention through Process Integration: Systematic Design Tools
author:  Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi 
description: The environmental impact of industrial waste is one of the most serious challenges facing the chemical process industry. From a focus on end-of-pipe treatment in the 1970s, chemical manufacturers have increasingly implemented pollution preventon policies in which pollutants are mitigated at the source or separated and recovered and then reused or sold.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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 <i>Pollution Prevention through Process Integration: Systematic Design Tools</i> a "must read" for a wide spectrum of practicing engineers, environmental scientists, plant managers, advance undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers in the areas of pollution prevention and process integration.
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  Paul Mac Berthouex & Linfield C. Brown 
  Pollution Prevention and Control: Part I 
  Human Health and Environmental Quality
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  Pollution Prevention and Control: Part I 
  Human Health and Environmental Quality
  1st edition
  © 2015 Paul Mac Berthouex & Linfield C. Brown & bookboon.com
  ISBN 978-87-403-0526-5
  Download free eBooks at bookboon.com
  
  Pollution Prevention and Control: Part I 
  Human Health and Environmental Quality
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  Contents
  Contents
   
  Preface 
  10
  1 
   The Strategy of Pollution Control Engineering 
  12
  1.1 
  Our Round River 
  12
  1.2 
  A Preview of This Book 
  14
  1.3 
  The Fallacy of Zero Emissions 
  14
  1.4 
  The Integration of Pollution Control 
  17
  1.5 
  An Integrated Approach to Design 
  21
  1.6 
  The Integrated Approach to Learning Pollution Control Engineering 
  23
  2 
  The Engineering Design Process 
  24
  2.1 
  Defining the Design Problem 
  24
  2.2 
  Identifying the Alternatives 
  28
  2.3 
  Voluntary Pollution Prevention by Industry 
  29
  2.4 
  Designing for Pol