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Book Description

A chemical engineer's guide to managing and minimizing environmental impact.

Chemical processes are invaluable to modern society, yet they generate substantial quantities of wastes and emissions, and safely managing these wastes costs tens of millions of dollars annually. Green Engineering is a complete professional's guide to the cost-effective design, commercialization, and use of chemical processes in ways that minimize pollution at the source, and reduce impact on health and the environment. This book also offers powerful new insights into environmental risk-based considerations in design of processes and products.

First conceived by the staff of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Green Engineering draws on contributions from many leaders in the field and introduces advanced risk-based techniques including some currently in use at the EPA. Coverage includes:

  • Engineering chemical processes, products, and systems to reduce environmental impacts

  • Approaches for evaluating emissions and hazards of chemicals and processes

  • Defining effective environmental performance targets

  • Advanced approaches and tools for evaluating environmental fate

  • Early-stage design and development techniques that minimize costs and environmental impacts

  • In-depth coverage of unit operation and flowsheet analysis

  • The economics of environmental improvement projects

  • Integration of chemical processes with other material processing operations

  • Lifecycle assessments: beyond the boundaries of the plant

  • Increasingly, chemical engineers are faced with the challenge of integrating environmental objectives into design decisions. Green Engineering gives them the technical tools they need to do so.

    Table of Contents

    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright Page
    3. Contents
    4. Preface
    5. About the Authors
    6. Acknowledgments
    7. Part I A Chemical Engineer’s Guide to Environmental Issues and Regulations
      1. 1 An Introduction to Environmental Issues
      2. 2 Risk Concepts
      3. 3 Environmental Law and Regulations: from End-of-Pipe to Pollution Prevention
      4. 4 The Roles and Responsibilities of Chemical Engineers
    8. Part II Evaluating and Improving Environmental Performance of Chemical Processes
      1. 5 Evaluating Environmental Fate: Approaches Based on Chemical Structure
      2. 6 Evaluating Exposures
      3. 7 Green Chemistry
      4. 8 Evaluating Environmental Performance During Process Synthesis
      5. 9 Unit Operations and Pollution Prevention
      6. 10 Flowsheet Analysis for Pollution Prevention
      7. 11 Evaluating the Environmental Performance of a Flowsheet
      8. 12 Environmental Cost Accounting
    9. Part III Moving Beyond the Plant Boundary
      1. 13 Life-Cycle Concepts, Product Stewardship, and Green Engineering
      2. 14 Industrial Ecology
    10. Appendices
      1. A Details of the Nine Prominent Federal Environmental Statutes
      2. B Molecular Connectivity
      3. C Estimating Emissions from Storage Tanks
      4. D Tables of Environmental Impact Potentials—Tables D-1 to D-4
      5. E Procedures for Estimating Hidden (Tier II) Costs—Tables E-1 TO E-5
      6. F Additional Resources—Web Resources/Online Databases/Software
    11. Index
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