Sustainable Design through Process Integration: Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement, Second Edition, is an important textbook that provides authoritative, comprehensive, and easy-to-follow coverage of the fundamental concepts and practical techniques on the use of process integration to maximize the efficiency and sustainability of industrial processes. The book is ideal for adoption in process design and sustainability courses. It is also a valuable guidebook to process, chemical, and environmental engineers who need to improve the design, operation, performance, and sustainability of industrial plants. The book covers pressing and high growth topics, including benchmarking process performance, identifying root causes of problems and opportunities for improvement, designing integrated solutions, enhancing profitability, conserving natural resources, and preventing pollution. Written by one of the world's foremost authorities on integrated process design and sustainability, the new edition contains new chapters and updated materials on various aspects of process integration and sustainable design. The new edition is also packed with numerous new examples and industrial applications.

1. Introduction to Sustainability, Sustainable Design, and Process Integration2. Overview of Process Economics3. Benchmarking Process Performance Through Overall Mass Targeting4. Direct-Recycle Networks: Graphical and Algebraic Targeting Approaches5. Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks6. Combining Mass-Integration Strategies7. Heat Integration8. Integration of Combined Heat and Power Systems9. Synthesis of Heat-Induced Separation Network for Condensation of Volatile10. Property Integration 11. Overview of Optimization12. An Optimization Approach to Direct Recycle13. Synthesis of Mass-Exchange Networks: A Mathematical Programming Approach14. Synthesis of Reactive Mass-Exchange Networks15. Mathematical Optimization Techniques for Mass Integration16. Mathematical Techniques for the Synthesis of Heat-Exchange Networks17. Synthesis of Combined Heat and Reactive Mass-Exchange Networks18. Water- Energy Nexus for Thermal Desalination Processes19. Design of Membrane-Separation Systems20. Macroscopic Approaches of Process Integration21. Concluding Thoughts: Launching Successful Process-Integration Initiatives and ApplicationsAppendix I: Conversion Relationships for Concentrations and Conversion Factor for UnitsAppendix II: Modeling of Mass-Exchange Units for Environmental Applications