Process Integration

Zusammenfassung Presents the concepts, tools and applications of Process Integration. This book includes case studies and examples that illustrate how Process Integration is solving actual industrial problems. It provides generic techniques that are applicable to a variety of processing facilities. It gives the fundamental principles, and industrial applications.

Autorentext
A leader in the fields of pollution prevention and integrated process design, Dr. Mahmoud El-Halwagi has received several presitigous awards including the National Science Foundation's National Young Investigator Award, the Birdsong Award, and the Fred H. Pumphrey Award. Dr. El-Halwagi is also a favorite among chemical engineering students at Auburn University, and the recipient of several Outstanding Faculty Awards from Auburn University's Student Government Association, College of Engineering, and Panhellenic Council. His numerous publications have appeared internationally, and he has also served as a consultant to a wide variety of major processing industries.

Klappentext
With growing global competition, the process industries must spare no effort in insuring continuous process improvement in terms of

• Increasing profitability;
• Conservation of resources and
• Prevention of pollution
  The question is how can engineers achieve these goals for a given process with numerous units and streams? Until recently conventional approaches to process design and operation put emphasis only on individual units and parts of the process. A more powerful integrated approach was lacking. The new field of Process Integration looks towards the processing plant as a whole in its attempt to find solutions and improvements. Research over the past two decades has resulted in many techniques that allow engineers to better understand complex facilities and significantly enhance their performance. This textbook presents a comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the concepts, tools and applications of Process Integration. Emphasis is given to systematic ways of analyzing process performance. Graphical, algebraic and mathematical procedures are presented in detail. In addition to covering the fundamentals of the subject, the book also includes numerous case studies and examples that illustrate how Process Integration is solving actual industrial problems.
  Systematic methodology for analyzing the process as an integrated system, identifying global insights of the process, and generating optimum strategies and solutions
  Proper mix of fundamental principles, insightful tools, and industrial applications
  Generic techniques that are applicable to a wide variety of processing facilities
  Packed with case studies, practical tools, charts, tables, andperformance criteria.
  Extensive bibliography to provide ready access to process integration literature
  Excellent review of state-of-the-art technology, development trends, and future research directions

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction to Process Integration Chapter 2: Overall Mass Targeting Chapter 3: Graphical Techniques for Direct-Recycle Strategies Chapter 4: Synthesis of Mass Exchange Networks: A Graphical Approach Chapter 5: Visualization Techniques for the Development of Detailed Mass-Integration Strategies Chapter 6: Algebraic Approach to Targeting Direct Recycle Chapter 7: An Algebraic Approach to the Targeting opf Mass Exchange Networks Chapter 8: Recycle Strategies Using Property Integration Chapter 9: Heat Integration Chapter 10: Combined Heat and Power Integration Chapter 11: Overview of Optimization Chapter 12: Mathematical Approach to Direct Recycle Chapter 13: Mathematical Techniques for the Synthesis of Mass and Heat Exchange Chapter 14: Mathematical Techiques for Mass-Integration Chapter 15: Putting it Together: Initiatives and Applications