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: <ul>
<li>Engineering chemical processes, products, and systems to reduce environmental impacts </li>
<li>Approaches for evaluating emissions and hazards of chemicals and processes </li>
<li>Defining effective environmental performance targets </li>
<li>Advanced approaches and tools for evaluating environmental fate </li>
<li>Early-stage design and development techniques that minimize costs and environmental impacts </li>
<li>In-depth coverage of unit operation and flowsheet analysis </li>
<li>The economics of environmental improvement projects </li>
<li>Integration of chemical processes with other material processing operations </li>
<li>Lifecycle assessments: beyond the boundaries of the plant</li> </ul>
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.

Green Engineering: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes

Science & Math

Allen, David T.

Shonnard, David R.

Chemistry

PRENTICE/HALL

Green Engineering, 2/e, systematically describes today's environmentally preferable approaches to the design and development of processes and products. The authors have thoroughly updated their classic text to reflect today's most important trends and advances, and to discuss green engineering in the broader context of sustainability. They focus on helping engineers and students translate the abstract concepts of green engineering and sustainability to real designs, using today's most valuable quantitative design tools and performance metrics. This edition's extensive improvements include new software tools, more problems, and updated examples throughout. New and substantially expanded coverage includes: * Energy, climate change, and the laws regarding greenhouse gases * "Green" unit operations * Water conservation and pinch technologies, especially heat exchange * Lifecycle assessment and its regulatory uses * An all-new case study chapter, including biofuels and nano-technology cases

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

This timely text offers coverage of pollution prevention fundamentals, featuring examples and case studies drawn from the chemical process industries. Topics are presented on three different levels-macro, meso, and micro. The book's multifaceted approach provides a complete picture of current waste minimization theory and practice. Macroscale * Comprehensive analysis of the flow of materials in the United States, from natural resource extraction to consumer product disposal * Overview of waste generation and management for different pollutant types * Assessment of pollution prevention opportunities using industrial ecology and product life cycle frameworks Mesoscale * Detailed coverage of pollution prevention in chemical manufacturing processes * Waste audits, emission inventories, flow sheet analysis, and many other important tools * Waste reduction for unit operations, techniques for measuring economic benefits of pollution prevention, and more Microscale * Case studies of reaction pathway analysis and material design methods Complete with case studies that give the material a real-world edge, plus worked examples to reinforce learning, this text is valuable to both advanced students and practitioners of chemical and civil engineering.

Pollution Prevention for Chemical Processes

Rosselot, Kirsten Sinclair

Wiley-Interscience

Intermedia Pollutant Transport: Modeling and Field Measurements

The National Center for Intermedia Transport Research (NCITR) was established at UCLA in 1982 by EPA as one of six Centers of Excellence for the study of environmental pollution problems. One of the functions undertaken by the NCITR has been to hold periodic workshops and to provide a forum for the discussion of current topiCS in the environmental pollution arena. To this end, two other workshops have previously been held. The first, held in November 1982, was chaired by H. R. Pruppacher, R. G. Semonin and W. G. N. Slinn on Precipitation Scavenging, Dry DepOSition and Resuspension. The second, held in January 1986, was chaired by Y. Cohen on Pollution Transport and Accumulation in a Multimedia Environment. The present workshop, chaired by D. T. Allen, Y. Cohen and I. R. Kaplan, was held on August 24-26, 1988 in Santa Monica, California. The title of the workshop was Intermedia Pollutant Transport: Modeling and Field Measurements. Approximately one hundred individuals participated and twenty five papers were given, mostly by invitation. The workshop was divided into the following four broad topiCS: 1) Transport of Pollutants from the Atmosphere, 2) Transport of Pollutants from Soils and Groundwaters, 3) Transport of Pollutants from Lakes and Oceans, and 4) Multimedia Transport of Pollutants. The last afternoon was reserved for a Panel Discussion.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Cohen, Yoram

Kaplan, Isaac R.

Gardening & Landscape Design

Springer

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