The environmental impact of industrial waste is one of the most serious challenges facing the chemical process
industries. From a focus on end-of-pipe treatment in the 1970s, chemical manufacturers have increasinglyimplemented
pollution prevention policies in which pollutants are mitigated at the source or separated and recovered and then
reused or sold.
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.
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 Pollution
Prevention through Process Integration: Systematic Design Tools a must read for a wide spectrum of practicing engineers,
environmental scientists, plant managers, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers in the
areas of pollution prevention andprocess integration.