Sustainability in the Process Industry: Integration and Optimization

Klemes, Jiri; Friedler, Ferenc; Bulatov, Igor

ISBN 10: 0071605541 / ISBN 13: 9780071605540

Published by McGraw-Hill Companies, 2010

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Improve the energy efficiency of process industry practices

Sustainability in the Process Industry explains process integration and optimization and discusses applications for improving the energy and water efficiency of industrial as well as nonindustrial energy users. Approaches for adapting these methodologies to include the integration of waste and renewable energy sources are covered. This authoritative text contains eight industrial-based case studies and nine testing examples with developed solutions. Details on software tools are also included in this practical guide.

• Optimization goals and application areas within sustainable industrial process design and integration
• Formulating sustainable tasks as optimization problems
• Improving energy efficiency through process integration
• Heat exchange and heat recovery
• Water/mass integration
• Minimizing water use and efficient generation
• New, relevant process integration research results
• Process optimization frameworks, including mathematical programming and P-graph and S-graph frameworks
• Applications of process integration, modeling, and optimization software tools

About the Author:

Jiří Klemeš, H DSC, is one of the key personalities of the world-leading Centre of Excellence in Process Integration at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.

Ferenc Friedler, DSC, is a leading research figure at the University of Pannonia, Hungary.

Dr. Igor Bulatov is a researcher at Centre for Process Integration, University of Manchester, UK.

Dr. Petar Varbanov is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Process Integration and Intensification (CPI), University of Pannonia, Hungary.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sustainability in the Process Industry: ...
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
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